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The 2016 WIGHTO AGM will be held on Friday 8th July, 7:30pm, at The Sun Inn Calbourne. The meeting is open to all members of the club, so come along…

Shortly after 8am on Saturday 30th April Chris Pritchett and Dan Williams set off from West Cowes on the Round The Island Walk as part of The Isle of Wight…

The New Forest is a place familiar to many of us as we drive through, zigzagging past disconsolate ponies, on our way to more a distant goal, but it is…

Sunday 13th March 2016 saw runners from the Island getting the earliest ferries of the day to go take on the hills of South Wiltshire in the Larmer Tree Races.…

Redundant military hardware, observation shelter, old anti-aircraft gun position – if the special symbols on the map were anything to by, this was going to be an interesting day at…

The New Forest Challenge is a navigational event put on every year by LDWA (Long Distance Walkers Association) Wessex. The courses on offer are a lot longer than the traditional…

Every year the Surrey group of the LDWA (Long Distance Walkers Association) host a challenge event which is The Punchbowl Marathon. The event is open to walkers and runners and…

A team of local orienteers ventured off the Island to take part in the Army (Military League South) Team Orienteering Championship at Sidbury Hill, Salisbury Plain on Wednesday 24th February…

Membership for Wight Orienteers became due on 1st January 2016 and if you regularly attend orienteering events you should become a member. The insurers of British Orienteering state that once…

Wight Orienteers has a new online home. We’ve relocated from the previous web address of www.wight-orienteers.co.uk to www.wighto.org.uk. Don’t panic though! You shouldn’t need to do anything extra to reach…