Welcome to my first chat as Wessex Chair.  I’m following in Jolyon’s excellent footsteps but can’t guarantee the same detailed orienteering content which we have become accustomed to.  I’m lucky that the club is in excellent health, and that is down to everyone playing their part. A lot of this chat is summarising what happened […]

For those of us who have been to the JK, the British Long and the British Middles, it has been 3 weekends out of the last five travelling north of Birmingham, with two visits to Yorkshire. I’m minded how much time and money this sport requires, if you commit to these big events. For those […]

Apologies for not posting a blog for a while, work seems to have got in the way of my orienteering and blog writing. As you may have heard, we received the sad news that our long standing member, Richard Arman, passed away at the age of 95. I didn’t have the pleasure of knowing Richard, […]

We are sad to announce the death of our dear friend and fellow member, Richard Arman. A full account of his life and contribution to Wessex, and orienteering in general, will follow in due course. Richard at the JKs 2013.

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Compass Sport Cup heat today. The results are available here: https://www.wimborne-orienteers.co.uk/24%20Events/Bere%20Wood%20Csport/Results/HTMLresultsBW/index.html   For those who couldn’t come today, water everywhere was the name of the game! Some depressions became ponds overnight, marshes were lakes, and there were several temporary streams. Some extra water won’t stop us […]