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Sat 11 May 2:00 pm
Kirrawee South CANCELLED
Kirrawee Oval on Helena St (Corner Forest Rd), Kirrawee South

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Sun 12 May 9:00 am
Waggaroos Local event, Rawlings Park plus LTO training session.
Wagga Wagga.

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

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

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Sat 18 May 9:30 am
SOS Hawkesbury - North Richmond
Colo High School, 218 Bells Line of Rd, North Richmond NSW

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Sat 18 May 7:30 pm
NOL Presentation Dinner
Ainslie Football Club, ACT.

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Sun 19 May 10:00 am
Kooringle
Armidale.

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Sun 19 May 11:00 am
Crestwood Orienteering
Port Macquarie.

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Wed 22 May 5:30 pm
Moonlight Madness #2 Kirribilli (World Orienteering Week)
Milson Park, McDougall Street, Kirribilli

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Sat 25 May 9:30 am
SOS Northside - Pymble
Robert Pymble Park, Park Crescent, Pymble

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.

2023 NSW ACT Ski Orienteering Champs Wrap

Last Updated: Tuesday, 15 August 2023 12:50
Ski orienteering has been on our bucket list for some time now and this year we decided to commit and got our entries in. We have alpine skied for many years and although I did some cross country skiing as a teenager, Rory and Euan have never worn the skinny ski’s before. Unfortunately school sport prevented us arriving early so instead we hired equipment and turned up on the morning of the event and spent an hour slipping and sliding around until we started to feel a bit of control about our technique!
Although the snow was a little thin in places, it was a gorgeous blue sky day with the temperature far exceeding those cold Easter carnival days and some of the competitors wearing t shirts. The 30 competitors ranged from seasoned cross country skiers with little orienteering experience to seasoned orienteers with little (to zero) cross country skiing experience to those who only had a little of one or the other! Fortunately Marina and Fedor Iskhakova who had planned and organised the event and were on hand at the start to provide some guidance and help as required.
Due to the limited snow conditions the long course had a couple of loops and I found it reminded me of MTBO in that I couldn’t read my map whilst skiing so I had to use a bit of map memory to recall my route choices. It was absolutely stunning when out at the further parts of the map when there was nobody else around and just blue sky, snow and my own huffing and puffing!
The event was incredibly social with it all based out of the welcoming Nordic Shelter with big smiles, hot chocolates, lollies and oranges for all the finishers and big bars of chocolate for the prize getters! Rory and Euan enjoyed it so much we then went and covered another 10km afterwards which included playing in snow holes and meeting many of the other competitors who were exploring the trials they either didn’t cover or checking out where they made mistakes maybe!
If you’re like us and have thought about giving ski orienteering a go then I’d thoroughly recommend it and we will definitely be returning.
Angus Shedden
 

Goldseekers 30th

Last Updated: Friday, 11 August 2023 21:59
Media coverage as Goldseekers Orienteers hold a "pairs" event in their 30th Year
 

Goldseekers Orienteers recently held at a fun pairs event at Gosling Creek, on the southern outskirts of Orange.

Celebrating their 30th year as a Club, it was a great opportunity to get some local news coverage.

7News attended and the news footage can be enjoyed at this Youtube link.   

https://youtu.be/4LBHhhOwr8U?t=1069

Goldseekers, well done on the media coverage, and congratulations on your 30th Birthday. 

 

2023 ACT & NSW Ski-Orienteering Championship

Last Updated: Thursday, 10 August 2023 14:58

Orienteers, Skiers, MTBOers, Rogainers, Adventurers!      

3 days left until 2023 ACT & NSW Ski-Orienteering Championship at Perisher Valley on this Sunday 13th August. 

2023 ACT & NSW Ski-Orienteering Championship will be organised by Red Roos, Big Foot and Perisher X Country.

This event forms part of XC Ski week (www.perisherxcountry.org) with the start in front of the beautiful, warm and special Nordic Shelter at Perisher. Everyone who loves or dreams of trying Skiing or Orienteering, will be able to take an opportunity to combine both skills and to take part in our exciting Championship. It will be the 9th Championship, after Swedish ski-o expert Patrik Gunnarsson brought the concept back to Perisher in 2014. It is the only Ski-O event in Australia and one of two in the Southern Hemisphere!

Courses: LONG, MIDDLE, SHORT 
Start: Start any time between 10:00am-11:00am; Finish closes at 1:30pm       

Entries close tonight at midnight - Thursday, 10th August in Eventor - https://eventor.orienteering.asn.au/Events/Show/17912

Marina ISKHAKOVA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

 

SOS kicks off 2023 Term 3 this Saturday

Last Updated: Thursday, 27 July 2023 16:55

The popular SOS (Saturday Orienteering Series) starts up for 2023 Term 3 this weekend with some mind-bending navigation across the north and northwest of Sydney.

It's also enormous fun and a great training activity to boot.

You can see the Term 3 SOS calendar here.

Enter on the day or Eventor or on the Bold Horizons website.

 

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