Orienteering NSW

Coming Events

map	Sun 3 Nov 4:00 pm River and Bay Series #2 - Randwick Over the Rainbow, Randwick

map	Wed 6 Nov 4:30 pm 2024/25 Sydney Summer Series #5 - Lindfield Primula Oval, Lindfield.

map	Wed 6 Nov 5:00 pm Newcastle Summer Street Series #4 - Blackalls Park Blackalls Park

map	Thu 7 Nov 5:00 pm Summer series #1 72 Ross Street

map	Fri 8 Nov 5:30 pm Goldseekers Park #2 - Gosling Creek Gosling Creek

map	Sat 9 Nov 9:30 am SOS 4 Gore Hill Oval, 209 Pacific Highway, St Leonards. Meet by the oval car park and playground.

map	Sat 9 Nov 10:00 am Illawarra Map Running Series - Spring #4 Unanderra Lindsay Maynes Park, cnr Princes Highway & Factory Rd, Unanderra

map	Sun 10 Nov 9:00 am Central Coast Summer Series 1 - Shelly Beach Naomi Honey Reserve, Shelly Beach Rd, Shelly Beach

map	Sun 10 Nov 4:00 pm River and Bay Series #3 - Canterbury The Gallops, Tasker park, Phillips Avenue Canterbury

map	Wed 13 Nov 4:30 pm 2024/25 Sydney Summer Series #6 - Camperdown Memorial Rest Park, Camperdown.

Uringa are putting on a "Learn to Navigate" 4-week course in the eastern suburbs, starting this Sunday (November 2).

This beginners course gives you all the tools to get out and orienteer! Over 4 weeks Michele Dawson (Australian junior rep) and Lawrence Jones (NSW Schools Squad member) will introduce you to the techniques to make your navigation secure.

Sessions and course materials include:

Map reading
Introduction to key orienteering techniques
How to read contours and navigate efficiently
Key elements of good route choice
How to use a compass at speed

Cost is $75 for individuals, $99 for families - with discounts for ONSW members. Can’t come to the whole course but want some top quality coaching? You can book in for a single session.

Details and bookings are at www.trybooking.com/108580

Each session runs from 2-4pm, after which you have time to get to the Southern Sydney Summer Series event that day to put your theory into practice. The first two weeks are at Centennial Park.

We know you've been waiting patiently, and we're pleased to announce that entries are now open for our annual end-of-year carnival - to be held for the first time in the Sydney metro area.

Georges Heights, Cockatoo Island, Pyrmont, Lapstone and Centennial Park are our stunning event locations. Along with our Xmas bush regulars, we'd love to see lots of the summer series crowd join in - you can enter the lot, or whichever days take your fancy.

For 2014, with the except of Day 4 (Lapstone) the Xmas 5-Days takes on a distinctly urban feel. Full details are on the flyer, and entries via Eventor. Day 3 at Pyrmont (see pic) will also count towards the Sydney Summer Series.

We have random prize draws for October, November and December thanks to our generous donors. Pre-entry is strongly recommended as we will have only a limited number of EOD maps available.

We anticipate several tour groups from Europe en route to Tasmania the following week for the World Cup round, not to mention the Oceania championships being held in conjunction.

We are still confirming the exact location of the last day, which is an ultra sprint somewhere within Centennial Parklands. To find out more about this exciting micro version of orienteering, read the flyer.

Entries close December 14. More information is available on the Xmas 5-Days web page. Tell your friends. All events are easily reached by public transport and offer great sightseeing opportunities.

Our summer programs are underway right across the state and this weekend looms as one of our busiest ever.

The fiesta of Foot-O starts Friday afternoon with Grafton Street-O, a great initiative in one of our expansion areas and drawing lots of newcomers and families.

On Saturday morning we have our schools series at Normanhurst Boys HS, followed by the wildly popular Halloween-themed Spooks in the Park gearing up for its third year - we expect around 800 excited primary schoolers at Centennial Park for that in the afternoon.

On Sunday our regional clubs are in the thick of it - Waggaroos are at Pomingalarna on the edge of town where they hosted State League 14 last month, Southern Highlands have their free club relays at Picton, Western Plains resume at CSU Dubbo and Newcastle start their BOSS mountain bike series at Killingworth.

Sydneysiders have the opening Southern SSS at Sandringham on Sunday afternoon, and the second event in the Western SSS at Bella Vista on Monday.

There's something for everyone. For full details of each, see our Eventor page.

Our Hills district expansion program - the Western Sydney Summer Series - swings into action on Monday at Baulkham Hills.

WHO are our hosts for the afternoon, at Col Sutton Park, Baulkham Hills Road. Starts are any time from 4.30-6.30pm. The format is the same as for the SSS - you have 45 minutes to get to as many of the 30 controls as you can.

We have already generated some hits in the local papers. Newcomers to orienteering get free entry to a subsequent event in the series.

And a reminder that our Southern SSS resumes on Sunday week at Sandringham, with starts from 4-6pm.