Inverness Orienteering Club welcomes you to Littlemill Forest for a friendly orienteering event. 

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Terrain / Planner’s Comments: 

Planner’s Comments Updated 14 Jan 2026

Paths are 90% ice free, but there could be patches and this might change by the event date.

There are fences to cross on longer courses.  Optional crossing points are marked on the map where crossing the fence is easier.

Large areas of fallen trees are marked with dark green, undergrowth (walk) also generally fallen trees though more scattered or gorse.  Individual fallen trees are not marked.  Competitors should not cross lochs/lochans/ponds/marshes mapped as uncrossable, frozen or not.

Littlemill has a fine mixture of terrain and vegetation including runnable woodland with steep gradients and intricate rides and paths. There are a number of wide marshes and uncrossable lochans which have been used to maximise the opportunities for route choice on the longer courses (please don’t be tempted to try to cross frozen water!).  There are a number of new fallen trees, larger groups are marked with thick green.

The area is used by walkers and dog walkers so please be courteous to other users.

 

Event Centre:  Farr Village Hall, IV2 6AX on the B851 

Google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/h9W7f6UKk94aUwBp7

What 3 Words: https://w3w.co/become.shortens.exulted

Refreshments: We hope to be offering soup and baking to fundraise for the INVOC Juniors (tbc).

Parking: At the hall 

Registration:  10:30 - 11:30

Starts: 11:00 to 12:00  Collect White and Yellow maps from the hall, they will not be at the Start.

Start / Finish will be a short distance from Farr Hall but across the B851. A marshal will be there to help. Please take care crossing this road. The route will be clearly marked with tape. 

Courses close: 14:00

Toilets:  at Village Hall

Courses: 

Map scale will be 1:10 000 with 5m contours 

Course	Distance	Scale
White	1.1 km	1:10,000
Yellow	2.3 km	1:10,000
Orange	2.5 km	1:10,000
Light Green	3.1 km	1:10,000
Short Green	2.5 km	1:10,000
Green	3.9 km	1:10,000
Blue	5.9 km	1:10,000
Brown	7.9 km	1:10,000

Pre-entry Information: Please pre-enter here. Closing date: Monday 12th January 22:00.  Some limited EOD will be available.  Pre-enter to guarantee a map.  

Event timing:  SI punching will be used, with SI Air enabled. SI timing chips will be available to hire for £1, with a limited number of SIAC Air for hire for £3

 

Safety:

• Competitors take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety at all times. 

• We advise competitors to carry a whistle.  Six short blasts indicate a competitor in trouble and anyone hearing this is asked to help.

• Courses are not suitable for buggies.

• Care needs to be taken due to patches of ice and avoid frozen water.

• Due to the time of year there may be snow, please dress equipped for cold weather.  In the event of bad weather cagoules may be made compulsory, participants will be notified if this is the case.

• First Aid cover is being provided by qualified members of INVOC. The first aid kit will be at the village hall 

• Courses close at 14:00. It is essential that you report to download after your run (even if you do not complete your course) so we know you are back safely!

• The nearest hospital is Raigmore in Inverness.

 

Organiser: Alison Matheson
Planner: Laurence Cload

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