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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.


OY changes for 2017

It might be hard to fathom with NSW sweltering under a record hot summer, but ONSW's State League season is just around the corner.

As such, Orienteering NSW would like to announce two important changes to SL this year. These have been driven by the fact that (a) ONSW is hosting the two major annual national carnivals in 2017, and (b) many of our sport's pioneers are ageing. 

(1) Not all classes will score points at each State League event. Eight of the 15 State League events will also be NOL (National Orienteering League) events, which split the M20-W20-M21-W21 age classes into elites and non-elites. As a result people competing in the M or W20A or M or W21A classes at the Australian 3-Days, Australian Championships or ACT Championships will not accrue points in the NSW OY competition. To accrue points in these classes, you will need to run Elite. Also, the opening SL weekend in the ACT will NOT have any short hard (AS) courses. AS class competitors will therefore have 13 eligible SL events in which to score points. 

Click here for a summary and explanation of the Orienteer of the Year points structure for 2017.

(2) A new course will now be offered annually for men and women to reflect the longevity and good health of many of our older veterans. The classes affected are M65AS, M75, M80, M85, M90, W65AS, W75, W80, W85 and W90. The new course will be:

  • For Sprint and Middle Distance formats - 25% of Hard 1 course length;
  • For Long Distance format - 15% of Hard 1 course length.

Click here for a summary of age classes on offer at the Australian 3-Days carnival in Wagga in June and the Australian championships around Bathurst in late September (yellow means new classes just for those events).

Any queries about these changes should be directed to Andrew Lumsden, ONSW Technical Director.

And a reminder that entries are already open for SL1-2 on March 25-26 and for the Australian 3-Days.