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Fri 12 Jul 4:00 pm
Bluebottles July Camp near Armidale
Thalgarrah Environmental Education Centre, about 20 minutes from Armidale.

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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).

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.


Remapped Yerambah kicks off MetrO League

MetrO League started for 2020 under a brilliant autumn sun in a totally remapped Yerambah Lagoon near the Georges River.

It was the first time we have been on this map since John Howard was prime minister (it was then an A5 at 1:10,000)! This time we were presented with A4 at 1:7500 for better reading, and found most of the old white areas to be now nearly all green.

The light green was navigable but many of the tracks washed out and a bit overgrown, which made for good route choice - although control 218 featured on many maps and tripped up a few people being off an indistinct track near some dark green.

We noted excellent performances by Uringa junior Kelvin Meng (2nd in Div 2), Julia Barbour (Big Foot, 2nd in Div 3) and SHOO primary schooler Rory Shedden tearing around to "win" the 2km Div 6 course in just 15 minutes.

Big Foot won all four matches, and Bennelong four of their five.

A big thank you to setter Vicki Wilmott, controller Kev Curby, organiser Ian Froude, mapper Arpad Kocsik (Garingal) and the IKO club.

Scores and Winsplits are on the ML web page.

Round 2 is on May 2 at Lansdowne. Please pre-enter.