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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.


I love to have a sprint with Duncan...

Is there anything this young man cannot do?

On Saturday afternoon at Leichhardt, 16-year-old Garingal junior Duncan Currie showed his alter ego "Jeff" (see The Australian Orienteer magazine for examples) how it's done with a fantastic ultra sprint.

In this micro format - which is so much fun and a great training tool - there are no control descriptions or numbers on the map; just a dot to show their locations.

With a 30-second penalty for each error (missing a control or punching the wrong control), what were initially decent times for the approx 1.2km races soon blew out and only three of the 80 participants managed three clean runs.

Add in a maze and you've got constant control conundrums!

Puzzled runners, upon hearing they had erred, quickly consulted the answer sheets at the assembly area with incredulity after each lap of Pioneers Memorial Park. "I swear I went to that one... and that one... and that one," they muttered.

We even attracted a couple of park visitors to have a go at one of the three courses.

Toby Wilson (GO) took out Junior Men and overall honours with an aggregate time of 21:50. Clubmate Michele Dawson was the fastest female in 27:57. 

A massive thank you to Duncan and family, SI gurus Col Burnett and Di Bergen for their seamless efforts, and the entire GO gang for a great outing in a fantastic venue.

Photos can be found on our Facebook page, while results and splits are on Eventor.