Jim Fulton asks “if anyone has any Jura photos can they send them to him please?” He will put them on a CD to send to Andy Forsyth in South Africa. If you send any emails to the website we will forward them to Jim, or contact him directly with Read more
A fantastic weekend in the lakes. Very tough courses for everyone I think and quite a few retirals in the longer classes. Day 1 was tough with alot of steep rocky climbs including scafell pike (!) but despite warm weather there was a bit of cloud yesterday and a breeze Read more
Lloyd Taggart, running for Saab Salomon, has won the 2006 Cross du Mont-Blanc in Chamonix in a time of 1:47:16, with Jackie Lee in 60th place with a time of 2:17:44. Full details are here
The selections for the World Orienteering Championships have been announced today: Dark Peak members selected are below: MIDDLE DISTANCE Rachael Elder Matt Crane LONG DISTANCE Rachael Elder Jenny Whitehead Oli Johnson RELAY Oli Johnson Full team can be seen at British Orienteering Results from the selection races: GBR sprint selection Read more
Friday evening promised ideal conditions for the BG. The weather was clear but cool; progress was very good overnight and they were 20 mins up at Dunmail. The clag came down on Bowfell and that made navigation hard and the rocks slippery especially Broad Stand. Neil and Nick started to Read more
Here is Simon’s Report:-As Hilary has already reported I had a great day out on the Bob Graham yesterday. I was aiming for a 17h30 schedule so was really chuffed to get round in 17h20. Couldn’t have got anywhere close to this without a fantastic support team who kept me Read more
The start and finish are at Rowlee Bridge, as usual. Checkpoints are: 1 Shooting Cabin 142887 2 Wall End 128885 3 Druids Stone 134874 4 Quarry (bottom) 153872 5 Crookstone Knoll 145884 Start 7 pm
Three Peaks Yacht Race:- There was Dark Peak involvement in two of the yachts, Vlad the Impaler (2nd) and Abbeydale Moonshine (3rd). For a race lasting 4 days, the finish was very close, depending on the final Leg, the run of Ben Nevis. The winner had a lead of 37mins, Read more
This year’s event was held in the far Northwest of Scotland. Notable Dark Peak results include Liz and John Batt finishing as the leading mixed team in the Elite, Kirsty Bryan-Jones in the winning ladies team on the ‘A’ class, Tony Heron 2nd in the ‘B’, and Sally Ward 5th Read more