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What is orienteering?
Orienteering is to navigate your way around a set course, usually in the woods, using a specially drawn map which shows features such as streams, fences, boulders and crags.
The map will have a starting and finishing point with a series of control points along the way. It is entirely up to you how you get from point to point - you could run fast or just bimble round with the kids and dog, enjoying the scenery and even have a picnic en route.
If you like treasure hunts and the outdoors then give it a go. You never know you could end up becoming an elite athlete competing world-wide or just content to stick to orienteering events in Aberdeen and the Shire and enjoy the exercise and friendship it brings.
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You can easily find orienteering events throughout Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire by visiting the Grampian Orienteers Club website at www.grampoc.com
There you will find an events list that shows what is happening throughout Aberdeenshire where and when. Look for the Family Friendly or red L-plate symbols which indicate events suitable for beginners and families alike. The site gives you a grid reference and a link to Multimap online maps so you can find them. When you get close to the event car park you will probably see red and white orienteering signs to show you the way. The summer evening events are ideal for beginners being low-key and all are either in or close to Aberdeen.
You need few items for your first orienteering events. This includes:
Grampoc will provide instruction and training if you need it - just ask for help when you arrive at an event.
For more information visit www.grampoc.com
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Orienteering In Aberdeenshire
What is orienteering? Orienteering is to navigate your way around a set course, usually in the woods, using a specially drawn map which shows features such as streams, fences, boulders and crags.
The map will have a starting and finishing point with a series of control points along the way. It is entirely up to you how you get from point to point - you could run fast or just bimble round with the kids and dog, enjoying the scenery and even have a picnic en route.
If you like treasure hunts and the outdoors then give it a go. You never know you could end up becoming an elite athlete competing world-wide or just content to stick to orienteering events in Aberdeen and the Shire and enjoy the exercise and friendship it brings.
Follow us on: Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Contact Me.
My new novel:
The Aberdeen skies are under attack from an enemy jet. It is spilling a strange yellow smoke. Minutes later, people start killing each other.
Former Royal Air Force Regiment Gunner Jason Harper witnesses this and then his wife, Pippa, telephones him, shouting that she needs him. They then get cut off. He sets straight out, unprepared for the nightmare that unfolds during his journey. Everyone seems to want to kill him.
Along the way, he pairs up with fellow survivor Imogen. But she enjoys killing the living dead far too much. Will she kill Jason in her blood thirst? Or will she hinder his journey through this zombie filled dystopian landscape to find his pregnant wife?
The Fence is the first in this series of post-apocalyptic military survival thrillers from the torturous mind of local horror and science fiction novel writer C.G. Buswell.
Download Now.
Buy the Paperback.
Orienteering Events In Aberdeenshire
You can easily find orienteering events throughout Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire by visiting the Grampian Orienteers Club website at www.grampoc.com There you will find an events list that shows what is happening throughout Aberdeenshire where and when. Look for the Family Friendly or red L-plate symbols which indicate events suitable for beginners and families alike. The site gives you a grid reference and a link to Multimap online maps so you can find them. When you get close to the event car park you will probably see red and white orienteering signs to show you the way. The summer evening events are ideal for beginners being low-key and all are either in or close to Aberdeen.
Orienteering Equipment
You need few items for your first orienteering events. This includes:
- Trainers or lightweight boots
- Tracksuit bottoms or similar that you don't mind getting a bit mucky
- A large clear plastic bag to put your map in
- A compass if you have one for orientating the map
- A whistle if you have one just in case you need to attract attention in case of an accident
- A drink and a snack for afterwards
- A few £s to pay for your map
- A couple of friends to share the fun!
Grampoc will provide instruction and training if you need it - just ask for help when you arrive at an event.
For more information visit www.grampoc.com
More Aberdeenshire Sporting Events.
Have you seen my beautiful golden retriever Lynne out and about in Aberdeen? Ask her for a high-five! She's a Bravehound PTSD assistance dog, so we'll often be in shops, restaurants, and the cinema together.
We've written a book where I talk about growing up in Aberdeen and then joining the army to be a medic and nurse, and developing military Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I also talk about losing my son to suicide and the therapy I have had at Royal Cornhill Hospital and grief support groups in Aberdeen.
The author, Damien Lewis, said of Lynne:
"A powerful account of what one dog means to one man on his road to recovery. Both heart-warming and life-affirming. Bravo Chris and Lynne. Bravo Bravehound."
Download.
Buy the paperback.
An army veteran moves his family back to his Aberdeenshire home, but his nightmare neighbour starts a battle of wits with him. Who will win this One Last War?
Buy this latest novel by local author C.G. Buswell on Kindle or Paperback.
Advertise Here from just £70.
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