To try and forget about how grim the weather's become recently, we've put together some brief reports from all the tours over summer - many thanks to everyone for their contributions. Click the links below to jump to the tour to find out more about how our Juniors got on! To find out more about the tours, and how to get selected, check out the tabs on the right hand side of the JROS Website.

Lagganlia

Imogen P

"Lagganlia was an amazing experience and I learnt so much not to mention all the life long friends I made! The orienteering was technical but the terrain was beautiful and great to run in. We swam in Loch Morlich just beneath the Cairngorms! The food was amazing cooked by the great team of cooks and thank you to all the coaches and junior coaches who made it the best week possible!"

Jamie L

"Lagganlia was a brilliant chance to combine making new friends from all around Britain and a week of orienteering in fantastic Scottish terrain. We trained every day but also had lots of time to just hang out and socialise. We swam in the loch and played football. My favourite area was Rosile because of the intricate contours and beautiful terrain. Overall it was a great week and I have made friends for life."

Alex C

"Lagganlia was such a great opportunity to not only improve my orienteering skills but also to get to know people from all over the UK. The areas we ran on were both lovely and technical Scottish terrain and the site we were staying on (Lagganlia) was amazing. We also did lots of activities outside of trainin like swimming, playing football and lots of other fun things. Thank you to everyone who made it a week to remember, coaches who changed my orienteering for the better and cooks who fed me with brilliant meals and toast all week."

Deeside

Alex E

"The Deeside tour was definitely a highlight of my summer - a chance to orienteer on high quality areas with great people, whilst being able to practice different techniques both with and without the pressure of a race situation. One of my favourite areas was Balmedie (we don’t get many sand dunes in Sheffield!) which has lots of intricate contour detail. At the end of each day we could then relax with some post-training swimming in the sunshine."

Max M

"Deeside was a great tour full of nice areas but it also had plenty of time to just relax and have fun with all the other athletes. We went swimming every day (helped by the beautiful weather) and usually had at least one competitive race a day to win a yellow jersey. The food was also really good with a BBQ and homemade pizzas etc."

Badaguish

Euan T

"Badaguish was great. We learnt a lot in the classroom and orienteered in some great terrain. It was also a good opportunity to get to know the year above. Thanks to the chef's, could recommend getting selected just for the food. And also thanks to the coaches for giving up there time as well."

Gothenburg

Ryan E

"In August I was selected for the JROS Gothenburg training camp for a second year. This year we had 4 athletes from Yorkshire: Me, Dom, Laura H and Alasdair P. It was a great camp in quality terrain. In our free time we did lots of swimming and on Saturday we went to the Liseberg theme park! At the end of the week we raced at the Gothenburg 3 days giving a great opportunity to practice racing abroad."

Dom D

"This was my first year on the Gothenburg camp, along with a lot of the athletes, but the relaxed feel of the camp was great, meaning we had to do a lot more of the organisation ourselves - such as planning trainings, putting out controls, and cooking. The terrain is a little different to that of Stockholn where I'd been before in Sweden, so was a great challenge orienteering there! Of course Mark and Alice did a brilliant job keeping a gentle eye on what we were doing, so thank you very much to them for such an enjoyable week!"

Yorkshire Junior Squad Tour

Conrad R

"I really enjoyed the squad tour for all sorts of reasons. It was great to socialise and get to know people better, go through amazing experiences with everyone, and as for the orienteering, it’s like nothing I’ve ever been to in England. The coaching was great and i think my orienteering skills and confidence has improved drastically. Whether it’s beautiful forests or swimming lakes Sweden has it all."

Isabelle H

"Squad Tour was a real eye opener to Swedish terrain (even when I was lost), it was a great week of swimming, training and roller coasters!"

Will G

"The orienteering was really hard but great fun and I learnt loads. The rest day on Friday was also amazing especially Grona Lund and the Skansen Museum."

Ryan E

"This year on the Yorkshire Squad tour we stayed in the OK Hellas hut in the south of Stockholm. We had the amazing area of Paradiset right on our doorstep which was big enough to give us areas to train on all of the days we had for training. There was lots of racing too with a double day on the Wednesday and the Stockholm Middle and Long Champs on the last weekend which was on a stellar area north of Stockholm. We had tremendous fun with plenty of down time including swimming and a rest day in Stockholm where we went to the Swedish heritage park Skansen and the Grona Lund theme park. It truly was a week to remember!"

Matthew M

"I really enjoyed the squad tour, the orienteering was very technically challenging and fun. The lake swimmig was great. I also enjoyed the rest day at Skansen and Grona Lund."

Claudine H

"I got a bit lost and it was as a quite stressful when the terrain was hard but I enjoyed it lots. Spending time with the squad, swimming in the lakes, gronalund and the races that went alright were fun. Swedish forests are very pretty as well. "