Culbin Forest Full Colour-Coded Event incorporating Moray and Highland Junior Championships Sun, 20-May

Final Details

For more detailed information, especially if you're new to orienteering, please click here

Please note that the Forestry Commission have introduced a parking charge (£1.50 per car for up to 3 hrs, £2 all day). This is to help pay for the maintenance of the excellent facilities at Culbin. Please respect this charge and pay at the machine - the Forestry Commission are extremely supportive of Moravian Orienteers and by demonstrating our integrity by paying this small charge it can only enhance the good reputation that orienteering enjoys. Thank you!

Now here's a Notice from British Orienteering for Elite Orienteers and their coaches and advisers; there are (sadly) very few MOR and INVOC members or that this affects:

Pre-entries are strongly recommended as this will speed things up on the day (although not necessarily your orienteering!) and guarantee you a place on the course you want to do. Entries on the day are available until maps run out. Please be aware that this area is embargoed for the 2015 World Orienteering Championships and any persons who, through knowledge of the terrain, may influence the results of the competitions, are not allowed to enter this area. Public roads are open for passage through the terrain.

This event is also the last chance for the rest of us mortals to compete in Culbin before the forest is embargoed for orienteering in the lead-up to the 6-Day event in 2013. For regular orienteers it will be another classic full-on Culbin event on this superlative orienteering terrain, with 8 courses from an ultra-easy White to a Brown that will stretch the top elites to the limit... and something to suit everyone else in between. But for us as a club it's most-importantly an exciting competiton for youngsters in Moray and Highland, who have experienced orienteering at school, taken part in the various schools championships organised by the Moravian and Inverness clubs, or perhaps been to the odd local event. It's run with the support and assistance of Moray Active Schools and High Life Highland and supported by the Big Lottery 2014 Communities programme.

The junior championship classes are not aimed at the experts! They're pitched at an easier standard than regular club juniors will be used to, and for that reason, club juniors who think the course designated for their age group is too easy are encouraged (but by no means obliged) to enter an older age category or the open-age junior elite - whichever class uses a course of the standard they're used to.

As most parents of junior orienteers enjoy the sport, we can't miss the opportunity of providing entertainment for you as well, especially as Culbin is one of the very best orienteering areas in the UK.  So we're providing a full set of open-entry colour coded courses and if your son/daughter is taking part we recommend you have a go too. The 'orange' or 'long orange' are ideal for adults new to orienteering, and we're offering discounted entry fees for adults entering these courses. Details of course lengths etc are in the next section. The result for all competitors aged 16 and over who are members of British Orienteering will contribute to the national UK rankings. On-line entries are open now at www.fabian4.co.uk.

No prizes for the adults we're afraid, but we have some rather nice trophies for the junior winners, plus a Buff - a snazzy item of headgear donated by Buffera Ltd. There will be engraved medals for 2nd and 3rd in each of the 10 junior classes. Here they are........