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Sat 4 May 9:30 am
SOS Term 2 Season Pass

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Tue 7 May 9:00 am
Riverina Schools Day Individual, Willan's Hill
Willans Hill, Wagga Wagga.
Tue 7 May 10:00 am
Riverina Schools Relays, Willan's Hill

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Sat 11 May 9:30 am
SOS Northside - Killara
Swain Gardens, 77 Stanhope Rd, Killara NSW 2071

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Sat 11 May 9:30 am
SOS Hawkesbury - Richmond
Richmond High School (140 Lennox St, Richmond NSW 2753)
Sat 11 May 11:00 am
Launch - Permanent Course- Randwick Sustainability Hub

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Sat 11 May 2:00 pm
Kirrawee South
Kirrawee Oval on Helena St (Corner Forest Rd), Kirrawee South
Sun 12 May 9:00 am
Waggaroos Local event, Rawlings Park plus LTO training session.

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Mon 13 May 7:30 pm
Orienteering NSW May General Meeting

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Sat 18 May 9:30 am
SOS Northside - Collaroy
22 Homestead Ave, Collaroy NSW

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.


First bush event of the season!

SHOO held their club event on Sunday at Lake Alexandra, Mittagong.  It was the first event after their initial training session for some of the people who are on the new SHOO coaching course and they were keen to have a go at a real event.  Uringa came with their  exercises on 'Control Flow and Exit Direction' and SHOO joined in to make for a lively pre-event training session.

It is best to adopt the mantra 'Never underestimate a SHOO club event' and course setter Neville Fathers made sure that the Hard course was testing, and a great warm up for the bush season ahead.  Ian Jones (Uringa) was on fine form, whistling around in 35:10, well ahead of the next competitor Stephen Wagner (SHOO) some eight minutes behind.  SHOO runners John Russell, Val Hodsdon and Corinne Fulford had a good run coming in under 60 minutes.  Corinne, who won the SHOO Summer Saturday Series, was mentored around the course by Michael Davis, a great way to develop her orienteering skills as she progresses on bush courses.

SHOO's next bush event is at Appin on April 22.