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Wed 17 Jul 5:30 pm
Moonlight Madness #4
Artarmon Reserve, Burra Road, Artarmon
Thu 18 Jul 7:30 pm
Orienteering Participation and Engagement Network July Meeting

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Sat 20 Jul 2:00 pm
2024 NSW State League #10 - Poppethead, Kitchener
“The Poppethead” D.Lyons. Partially updated 2024, Cessnock Rd, Kitchener -32.8766698, 151.3657394 https://bitly.cx/wDYvx

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Sun 21 Jul 9:30 am
2024 NSW State League #11 - Barraba Lane, Quorrobolong
“Barraba Lane” - Ian Dempsey, 2021, Barraba Lane, Quorrobolong -32.9630219, 151.3384693

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Sun 21 Jul 10:00 am
Waggaroos Local event, Wolfram
Livingstone State Conservation Area.

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Tue 23 Jul 7:30 pm
Orienteering NSW July Board Meeting

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Wed 24 Jul 4:00 pm
2024 Sydney MapRun #2 Putney
Putney Park Toilets (South), Pellisier Rd, Putney
Sat 27 Jul 9:30 am
SOS Northside
Vision Valley, Arcadia.
Sat 27 Jul 9:30 am
SOS Hills District
Crestwood (Torry Burn map).

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Sat 27 Jul 10:00 am
Learn to Orienteer - Port Macquarie

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.


Important changes to summer series

Our two biggest summer series - Sydney and Newcastle - kick off next Wednesday with important changes to the way both are conducted.

Newcastle will be using the free app MapRunF available for smartphones and watches. This ensures that the events are as contactless as possible due to ongoing covid concerns.

Warm-up events on October 7 and 14 offer the opportunity to get procedures sorted in time for the series opener on October 21.

Events remain score courses of 45 minutes, with the start window from 5-6.30pm. Only people participating during that time will count towards the point score, otherwise people can run the event at a time that suits them.

You can pre-enter right up until 6.30pm on the day. Printed maps will still be available. 

In Sydney, maps will be available on Eventor from 7pm Tuesday so people can plan their routes in advance. The days of mingling with buddies to compare routes are over thanks to covid. The intention is to arrive, run, leave.

All Sydney Summer Series events will have a common assembly area layout - see here for details. This is to better manage the flow of 200 participants across the three hours.

Events remain score courses of 45 minutes, with the start window from 4.30-6.45pm.

You can pre-enter up until the last start time, and there is a free MINI course pretty much every week as well for kids. 

The SSS website has also had a big revamp thanks to Andrew Wisniewski. Clicking on your name on any result will bring up your entire SSS history! Thanks to Jim Merchant, Ian Jessup and Richard Pattison for pulling together the historical data.

SSS season tickets offer members a discount of 30% and are available here.