Category: Events

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!

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.

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45th Billygoat Run!

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

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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.

Hosts: Orienteering Cincinnatti (OCIN) and Indiana Crossroads Orienteering (ICO)

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Venues:

• Friday Middle Distance – Camp Ransburg

• Saturday Long Distance – Story West (Cancelled due to extreme flooding event)

• Sunday Urban Middle – Indianapolis

This event features some wild weather, cancelling Sunday’s long race, and a fairly unique urban middle distance race on Sunday.

Host: North Texas Orienteering Association (NTOA)

Venue: Sid Richardson Scout Ranch, Bridgetport, TX

This event was a two-day Classic distance NRE, and also the Interscholastic and Intercollegiate Championships.

Hosts: Tucson Orienteering Club & Greater Phoenix Orienteering Club

Venues: First six races southeast of Tucson, AZ. Seventh race in Tucson. Final three races northeast of Phoenix, AZ

SWSW is an almost-annual weeklong festival of casual orienteering in warm Arizona.

Website: southwestspringweek.org