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Butterdean is near Gladsmuir village between Tranent and Haddington. It is a flat wood densely planted with conifers and patches of birch or ash. There is a good track and path network. The wood is home to a range of wildlife and some animal sculptures. It is managed by the Woodland Trust and East Lothian Council.
Please note that we now use an event base (parking, Registration and Start/Finish) at Alba Trees on the east side of the wood – see detailed directions below.
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Other News and Results
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ELO’s club championships for 2024 were held in combination with Interlopers staging of the Scottish Score Championships at Vogrie on Saturday 9th November. Last year’s overall champions, Joel and Emily Atkinson, were both absent at other events so there was a chance for new names to shine.
Congratulations to all of our ELO champions for the coming year …
- female club champion – Kirsty McArthur – a new champion – with Vik Baillie very close behind
- male club champion – Evgueni Chepelin – a previous champion – with Robin Strain close behind
- junior W14 and M14 – Jonah Henderson
- junior W12 and M12 – no competitiors in this category this year
- junior running Yellow – W10 and M10 – Magnus Madhra with Magnus Baillie close behind
Trophies will be ordered and presented at a future event – hopefully at the Festive Frolic on 28th December which will be held at Vogrie again.
Congratulations also to three club members who became Scottish Score Champions: Felix Remai, Robin Strain and Sheila Strain. Kirsty and Evgueni each came 3rd in their respective categories.
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We are working on an exciting programme of events for 2025 but none of these can happen without planners and organisers!
Don’t worry if you haven’t planned or organised before because you will be able to work with an experienced mentor offering advice and guidance.
In particular we need planners and organisers for these sort of events…
- Larger events attracting orienteers from all over Scotland and the UK:
most suitable for slightly more experienced planners who would like to plan an event with 7 or 8 courses. Organisation has slightly more to do than a Saturday event so we would like to be able to assign 2 organisers (and 2 planners) to each of these events so that there’s not too much for any one person to do. - Monthly Saturday events featuring classic cross country orienteering
suitable for both experienced and newer planners and an ideal introduction to organising an event. - Sprintelopes are lightweight urban orienteering events taking place on Wednesday evenings in spring and early summer
an ideal introduction to planning a low key event with just three courses.
- Larger events attracting orienteers from all over Scotland and the UK:
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Event Report
Thanks for coming along to Levenhall Links and enjoying some autumnal East Lothian sunshine. It was the perfect conditions for some runners courses round the old ash lagoons in Musselburgh.
Many thanks to the volunteers, particularly those who were there at the bitter end collecting controls and to our planner Jeff Hodgson and the organiser Duncan Edmondson!
It was super to have refreshments afterwards and there was a lovely buzz of conversations both before and afterwards. Hopefully all our members who were helping / running in other events across the country this weekend had an equally enjoyable time.
There were a couple of hitches today but we hope they didn’t spoil the day for those affected – runners on Orange and the earliest starters on White. Orange, control number 5 wasn’t correctly located and one of the route choices in appeared to be more runnable on the map than it actually was on the ground. To be able to compare overall Orange course runs more easily we have removed control 5 from the overall results. The route choice analysis on Routegadget still includes this control so you can see how others approached it.
Planner’s Report
This proved to be an area with often long runs between the available identifiable features making it a runners course for the day. In some areas the vegetation had crept out considerably since the last map revision obscuring some fences and making certain routes more difficult to run than expected.Apologies to runners on the Orange course that the vegetation encroachment made control 5 extremely hard to place accurately and then to find. However, overall it was good to receive positive feedback regarding the courses and some tricky route choice challenges.A huge thank you to Duncan for organising and to all the helpers for making the day go ahead to schedule and safely and also for quickly responding to the couple of control placement glitches.JeffResults
- Simple results are here.
- Routegadget allows you to plot your route, either by hand or by downloading a gpx file from a watch or phone and to look where you and others went.
- Winsplits Online gives another way of comparing your times for each leg.
- British Orienteering collect results from all events and publish ranking scores for larger events.
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Event Report
Today was an extra activity added to the club programme for the Midlothian Outdoor Festival, which is co-ordinated by the countryside rangers.
The weather was perfect and Vogrie was looking wonderful.
Well done to all the families who came along and participated enthusiastically, many for their first go at orienteering, and to Bonnyrig Scout Unit who also took part equally enthusiastically.
Lots of people also had fun in the orienteering maze. Thank you to David for setting up and running the maze, and to Neil, Vik, Dermot, Jamie, Jenny and Robin for helping put out and collect in controls, run Start, run the computers and give help to first-timers.Sheila
Results
- Simple results are here.
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Yellowcraig is a small but varied area with forest, sand-dunes and open grassland to challenge for new and experienced orienteers.
Orienteers of all abilities are welcome to join us on the day when we will have the usual range of courses and also a corridor course for training.
There will be entry on the day available – please come early to avoid disappointment!
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We are sorry that there was a problem with the first control in Orange for the early starters. We should probably have voided the course and deleted all results, but we thought it was better to leave it – you know what you did.
Robin
Results
- Simple results are here.
- Routegadget allows you to plot your route, either by hand or by downloading a gpx file from a watch or phone and to look where you and others went.
- Winsplits Online gives another way of comparing your times for each leg.
- British Orienteering collect results from all events and publish ranking scores for larger events.
