ESOL 8 @ the Eildon Hills

Roxburgh Reivers hosted the final round of this year’s ESOL series at the Eildon Hills near Melrose on Sunday. Despite variable weather in the run up to the event and difficulties in determining where scree slopes (or should that be ski slopes) stopped due to the snow causing problems when putting controls out around 120 people competed.

Results can now be downloaded in a variety of formats and officials’ comments will be published as soon as possible. To access the results, go to the Results Page. Final standings for this year’s ESOL series will be available from the ESOA Website.

ESOL 7 @ Corstorphine Hill

The latest round of the East of Scotland Orienteering League took place at a very windy Corstorphine Hill in Edinburgh last weekend (10/02/02). Although several Reivers were away with the Scottish Junior Squad weekend in England, a few club members persevered through attrocious weather (from Glasgow anyway) to compete in a very muddy and slippy area. Best result of the day was probably the win for young Reiver Kirstin Maxwell (W10) on the Yellow course.

Full results can be downloaded from the ESOA Website.

The next ESOL and final round of the 2001/2002 competition is Roxburgh Reivers’ event at the Eildon Hills, Melrose, on March 3 2002 (see below for more information).

Armchair Planning competition

Andrew Hewat has agreed to judge an armchair planning competition, open to all club members. The idea is to plan two courses (Brown and Orange) from the comfort of your own armchair (or desk) using just a blank map of Strathmashie, the venue for Days 2 and 4 of Lochaber 2001.

If you weren’t at the AGM and would like to enter, then please contact Robin Sloan (email: robin_sloan@roseisle.demon.co.uk), who will then send out a copy of the rules and a couple of blank maps.

The closing date for entries is Febraury 28 2002.

RR AGM

The club AGM will take place at Tweedbank Barns Centre on Thursday 24 January 2002 at 7:30pm.

Boxing Day fun event

Roxburgh Reivers’ Boxing Day fun event will take place at Wilton Park in Hawick. As usual the format will be announced on arrival and the event starts at 11am. Meet at the changing rooms next to the walled garden.

Afterwards we’ll go for a mince pie and a cup of tea at the Hawick Cycling Club club rooms. Any questions then contact Rob (email: r.a.cranston@btinternet.com or phone 01450 372095).

Scottish Night Championships and Tinto Twin

Carmichael Estate in Lanarkshire once again played host to the Tinto Twin and Scottish Night Championships last weekend (Nov 3-4 2001). Reivers’ best results were recorded during the day event and for the second week running John Tullie (M40L) came home in first place, with less than a minute separating the top three.

Other good results were recorded by Andrew Tullie, who was second on M14A, whilst older brothers James and Douglas came second and third respectively on M16A.

Full results from each day can be found at the Tinto results page.