The MapRun orienteering app allows you to take part in “Virtual” orienteering courses using the GPS in your smartphone (or watch) at a time convenient for yourself. You run a course using either the map on your phone screen or a paper version, and your phone will beep when you reach the correct location of each control.
As part of our ‘Go Orienteering’ Programme, EckO offer a Temporary Orienteering Course that is available for anyone to use.
The TOC will be in the area that EckO are using for training/coaching and an event for that particular month. The courses (usually 2) will be available for the whole month.
Adventure Oban are partnering with Loch Eck Orienteers and Oban Canoe Club to bring the ITERA Expedition Race to Oban. This is a mind-boggling challenge that sees over 50 teams of 4 from all over the world take part in 500km of non-stop racing on foot, bike and kayak across the West Highlands. In particular, Oban Adventure is helping out ECKO as we look after an orienteering stage near Inverawe from Thursday 18th August at 2am until Friday 19th August at 3am.
We need all the volunteers we can get to help staff the start and finish section of the stage. You don’t need any orienteering experience and we’re grateful for any time you can offer, even if it’s just an hour.
If you can help, send an email to hello@adventureoban.org and Adventure Oban will take it from there.
EckO enjoyed a very sunny coaching day at the rugby club in Oban with the Oban High School Duke of Edinburgh group.
After missing a couple of years due to covid, it was great to see lots of smiling faces on Moncreiffe Hill last Sunday for the 2022 Jamie Stevenson Trophy.
The newsletter contains an update on EckO's recent activities and events but also some information on Future Training and Courses:
EckO are keen to offer opportunities to either learn how to orienteer or to help develop orienteering knowledge and skills, alongside our regular events.
Read on for more information here
The Scottish Championships were held at Glen Dye, south of Banchory last weekend and...
Congratulations to Ruari Cottier who, along with seven other Scottish Juniors, has been selected to attend the Junior Regional Orienteering Squad (JROS) summer camp at Lagganlia for M/W 14s.
Orienteering is a sport that combines map reading and running. Competitors have to find their way between a series of checkpoints, called controls, as quickly as possible. There’s no set route between the controls, so you have to decide which way to go and then find your way there without getting lost.
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