Category: Events

US Orienteers were treated to three days of high-quality orienteering in the Boston area, capped by a delightful city sprint during a nor’easter.

• Hosts: New England Orienteering Club (NEOC) and Navigation Games (NG)

• Venues:
  • Rocky Woods Reservation (Middle), Medfield, MA
  • Powissett Peak (Long), Dover, MA
  • Boston’s North End (Sprint), Boston, MA

Grizzly Orienteering invited orienteers to enjoy some warm fall weather in the Bitterroot Range of Montana. The first day was a middle distance NRE in steep terrain with intricate rock details. The second day provided tremendous contrast to the first, with open forest and broad hillsides.

Host: Grizzly Orienteering (GrizO)

Venues: Soft Rock Recreation Area (Sat) and Larry Creek Recreation (Sun) Area, south of Missoula, MT

Event Director: Emily Johnson

Course Setters: Siri Christopherson (Sat) and Chris Caldwell (Sun)

Host: Navigation Games

Venue: Boston, MA

Boston-area orienteers were treated to a special urban middle in the city of Boston, 250 years after Paul Revere’s famous ride.

Hosts: Mount Hood Orienteering and Columbia River Orienteering Club
Venues: Skyline Sno-Park and Billy Bob Sno-Park, in the shadows of Mt Hood, Oregon

Two clubs, two days of challenging orienteering in the shadow of Mount Hood, Oregon!

Host: Bay Area Orienteering Club (BAOC)

Venues & Formats:

• Friday Boreal Middle
• Saturday Northstar Snow Stomp
• Sunday Burton Creek Classic NRE
• Monday Donner Sprint

Event website

The Arctic Orienteering Club (AOC) welcomed orienteers to Alaska for several days of orienteering in varied terrain. There were intricate forests, wide open alpine, a SUP ferry, and snow!

The events were a short forest event at Earthquake Park, classic NRE at Willow Creek, a Mountain-O at Craigie Creek (Hatcher Pass), and a Classic at Mirror Lake.

Event Website

45th Billygoat Run!

• Host: Delaware Valley Orienteering Association (DVOA)
• Venue: Merli-Sarnoski County Park, PA
• Head Goat: Kyle Sullivan
• Course setter: Sam Kolins

Event Website

Rochester hosted an Ultralong NRE course with wave starts. This enabled a mass start experience with the people in your own age class.

Host: Rochester Orienteering Club (ROC)

Venue: Mendon Ponds Park, Rochester, NY

Event Director: Rick Worner

Course setter: Sergey Dobretsov

Two Sprint NREs in one day in the western NY city of Buffalo.

Host: Buffalo Orienteering Club (BFLO)

Venues:

• Buffalo State University campus
• Delaware Park

Event Director: David Cady

Course setters:

• Linda Kohn (ROC)
• Jackie Novkov (BFLO)

• Host: USMAOC

• Saturday Venue: Stilwell Lake
• Sunday Venue: Victor Constant Ski Area
• Event website

Unfortunately, the planned Saturday afternoon relay event was cancelled due to the winter weather, which had caused a 2-hour delay to the morning event.