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Chairman’s Chat 11th March

Just a short report this week. Because of all the rainfall in the past few weeks the SARUM Event at Fonthill was cancelled, which was a shame because it was right on our door step. We couldn’t go through a weekend without not running so we decided to head over to the middle distance NGOC event on Minchinhampton […]

Chairman’s Chat – February 4th

Sunday’s BOK South West League event was in one of the more technical areas in the South West, Stockhill, in the Mendips. It was used for the British Middle distance champs in 2018. Stockhill is a forest plantation overlying an area previously used for mining, so lots of depressions and pits everywhere. We had a […]

Chairman’s Chat 7th January

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year and are looking forward to another year of orienteering! Martin Down – New Year’s Day Score The first event of 2020, organised by SARUM, was a score event on Martin Down, a new area. WSX had some high scorers in the top 10. With Jolyon in […]

‘Chairman’s Chat’ December 16th

This weekend This weekend there was an event organised by Sarum, and WSX had a good turn out (8 club members), putting in some good results. The best was Roger winning the Score. Here is Jason’s report (and map) on the green. Good time bogtrotting on Dur hill. Tussock and bog. Fastest to control 11 […]

Harewood Forest

This week the Medlock family, Alan Blanchflower and Bruno Smith went to Harewood Forest, organised by BADO orienteering club, and what an event it was. Harewood Forest is the second largest ancient woodland in Hampshire and we all did very well. Alan came 13th out of 25 on the brown, above the brown standard, well […]
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