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Sat 6 Apr 9:00 am
Forest Orienteering and Navigation Skills Day
Smiths Creek Reserve, Campbelltown (meet at Waminda Reserve, Macquarie Av, Campbelltown.

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Sun 7 Apr 9:00 am
Waggaroos Local event, Willan's Hill plus LTO Training session
Lord Baden Powell Drive, Willans Hill, Wagga Wagga.

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Sun 7 Apr 9:30 am
2024 Metro League #1 - Appin
Scout Hall, Burke St, Appin

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Sun 7 Apr 9:30 am
NOY1 - Archery Ridge (Elrington)
Archery Ridge (1:10,000)

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Sun 7 Apr 10:00 am
Mount Brown
4.5 km on Torryburn Road

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Sun 7 Apr 10:00 am
Goldseekers Bush Series #2 - Bridal Track Reserve
Clifton Grove (only a few minutes' drive out of Orange).

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Sat 13 Apr 1:00 pm
Highlands Forest Series #1 - Penrose State Forest
Penrose Forest North, 1:10,000

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Sun 14 Apr 9:30 am
2024 NSW State League #4 - Snow Hills (ACT Classic Series; ACT League #3)
Snows Hill . Mayfield Cross Road, Mayfield. About 1 hour drive south of Goulburn and 1.5 hours east of Canberra

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Sun 14 Apr 2:00 pm
Bluebottles April Camp at Belanglo
Belanglo State Forest.

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Sun 21 Apr 9:30 am
NOY2 - Redgum Ridges (Freemans Waterhole)
 Redgum Ridges 1:10 000

Welcome to Orienteering NSW

Orienteering is a sport that challenges both the body and the mind. It's also loads of fun!

The aim is to use a special orienteering map to navigate your way around a course and visit marked check points along the way. You choose a course that suits your age and experience and proceed at your own pace: walk, jog or run. It is a race but you decide if you want to just race yourself or be the next world champion! The course may take you through urban areas, parks, schools, farmland or forests.

Events are conducted weekly across NSW and beginners are welcome at all events.

New to orienteering? Click here for more information.

Want to enter an event? You can see what's on by looking at the Coming Events at left or by going to the Event Calendar. Some events are enter on the day - you just turn up and register at the start. Other events require pre-entry and for that you need to know about (and register with) Eventor - read the Eventor FAQ.


NSW schools champs a triple treat of new maps

Students from as far afield as Henty, Wagga, Dubbo, Nowra and Queanbeyan showed their talents at the NSW schools championships at the weekend.

Held in conjunction with State Leagues 9 and 10, almost 300 orienteers were treated to three new Dave Lotty maps near Bankstown airport.

Saturday consisted of two sprints - at Garrison Point where the easy open parkland gave the schoolkids a confident start to proceedings, and UWS Bankstown where the intricacies of sprint mapping were far more apparent where nooks and crannies around the campus waited to catch the unaware.

Congratulations on breakthrough wins to Finn Mackay (M14A), Lachlan Billett (M15A), Clare Jessup (W16A) and Jamie Kennedy (M50A).

Sunday was a middle distance bush event at Mirrambeena Regional Park which has been remapped after more than a decade of no access. A cycling road and lots of bush tracks criss-crossed the area, aiding navigation to a degree but also presenting other challenges. First-time SL planner Jim Mackay set some terrific legs among the varied vegetation that offered great route choice.

Our 2016 school champions are: Mawarra PS (primary), KNOX Grammar (Secondary) and CIS (region). 

Please fill out the very brief Course Setter of the Year surveys for each event in which you participated.

A massive thank you to: Ron Pallas and his team on SportIdent, the Uringa club for a hectic 36 hours, ONSW Development Officer Lyn Malmgron and her team of helpers to ensure the kids were calm and confident when setting out on their courses, and the coaches who talk parents on a map walk (see pic).

Our gratitude also goes to Bankstown Council for venue access, and Mustangs Baseball Club for opening their canteen on Sunday. 

Photo albums from Saturday are on our Facebook page. Results, splits and Routegadget links are all on our State League page. 

A reminder that our final State League weekend for 2016 is in the Southern Highlands in a fortnight. Saturday is a Middle distance event at Mittagong and Sunday is a Long distance event in Belanglo State Forest. Entries close on Friday.