Congratulations to Matthew Clarke and Chloe Cracknell who have been selected to attend this year's Deeside training camp which runs from 22nd-29th July.
The ‘Deeside’ training camp is based at Templars’ Park, Maryculter on the banks of the River Dee near Aberdeen, within reach of excellent orienteering areas such as Glen Feardar, Cambus O’May, Inchmarnoch & Creag Choinnich.
Anyone who would like to try orienteering but is hesitating due to a lack of confidence in their map reading skills may be interested in this event which is part of the Suffolk Walking Festival 2017.
There was a sizeable contingent from SuffOC at the Compass Sport Trophy area heat on the Ashridge Estate in the Chilterns last weekend. At the end of the event it appeared that SuffOC had won the heat, but then came the announcement that there were some anomalies so the scores needed to be rechecked. After a nail-biting week the results have now been finalised and yes, SuffOC really did win against the 8 other clubs: together with SAX we have qualified for the final. Congratulations, everyone, we now have a fantastic opportunity to participate in the Level A final in October!
The final will be held on Sunday 22nd October at Virtuous Lady (named after a disused mine), near Yelverton. Devon Orienteering has already set up a webpage with a link to the map and the list of qualifying clubs for both the Trophy and the Cup can be found here.
