Author Archive for Jolyon Medlock
WSX Chat 10 Oct
Purbeck weekend It has been a busy few weeks of orienteering, including our successful Purbeck Orienteering weekend, with the first chance to try out the southern dunes at Studland and the new map of Swanage. We were blessed with the weather. Although the control placers all got wet, none of the orienteers did. Thanks to […]
Posted on Mon, 10th October 2022 by Jolyon MedlockStudland – planner’s comments
Planner’s comments – Studland Dunes I seem to spend many a weekend driving to South Wales, the Lakes or Scotland in search of technical orienteering terrain. There is a perception among some northerners and Scots that little tough navigational terrain exists in the south, except on sand dunes in Devon and Cornwall, or on Dartmoor. […]
Posted on Sun, 2nd October 2022 by Jolyon MedlockAutumn events 2022
I thought it might be helpful to share with you some ideas for orienteering events in the coming month: 10th September: SOC Hinchelsea & Yewtree Bottom (New Forest) 11th September: NGOC Parkend (Forest of Dean) 18th-19th September: DEVON Caddihoe weekend on Haytor & Hound Tor (Dartmoor) includes Southern Champs 24th-25th September: SBOC Pembrokeshire Orienteering Weekend (Stackpole […]
Posted on Wed, 31st August 2022 by Jolyon MedlockWSX Chat 25 Aug
First of all a big congratulations to the following winners of WSX awards: Chairman’s Trophy – Alan Hooper Charlie Morton (best junior improved award) – Esk Medlock Ian Horsey (best adult improved award) – Scott Elford It has been a hot and busy summer of orienteering, with many of us spending a couple of sociable […]
Posted on Thu, 25th August 2022 by Jolyon MedlockWSX Chat 23 Jul
Summer Orienteering When I started orienteering in the early 1990s, the sport seemed to stop between April and September, but now summer seems to me to be an endless procession of opportunities for urban orienteering, European City races, week long festivals of orienteering in Sweden, France, Scotland, Lakes etc, not to mention the summer relay […]
Posted on Sat, 23rd July 2022 by Jolyon Medlock