With its traditional holiday atmosphere, the Six Days is always a lot of fun for everyone, regardless of experience or age. Royal Deeside 2025 is a fabulous opportunity to showcase our amazing sport to newcomers – can you help spread the word and inspire others? Tell us what the Six Days means to you and why you love it.

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Royal Deeside is well known as an orienteering jewel with copious amounts of contour detail and glorious forested hills which offer spectacular views out over the River Dee. It’s a great location to celebrate the 25th staging of the Scottish 6 Days and we very much hope you will all join us there next summer.

With five days of forest competition, there will be competitive age-classes, colour-coded courses and string courses too, as well as two World Ranking Events; a middle distance and a long distance. The event centre will be in Ballater and there will of course be a full social calendar as well as rest day activities, along with all the other attractions of this glorious part of the Highlands.

Early bird prices until 31 January 2025 so don’t delay – visit the Entry Page for full  information.

The Scottish 6 Days Orienteering Event has been a biennial fixture in the Scottish Orienteering Calendar since 1977.  Scottish Orienteering clubs and their members will be staging this multi-day blue riband event for the 25th time and we are really looking forward to welcoming beginners and experienced orienteers of all ages to the wonderful Royal Deeside forests next summer.
Richard Oxlade – Scottish Orienteering Association Chair

I had a great time at Moray 2023! It felt friendly and it was great hanging out with my O-friends and playing in some of my favourite forests!
Moray 2023 Participant