Host: Western Connecticut Orienteering Club (WCOC)
Venue: Brooksvale Park, Hamden, CT
Meet Directors: Susan DeWitt and Ellen Morse
Course Setter: Niels Lyng-Olsen
The basemap for this event was created by former OUSA Communications Manager Clinton Morse and field checked by Clinton Morse and J-J Cote.
Photos by Evalin Brautigam and Mike Minium
Host: Hudson Valley Orienteering (HVO)
Venue: Sal J. Prezioso Mountain Lakes
North Salem, NY
Meet Director: Geof Connor
Course Setter: Kseniya Popova
Classic courses in beautiful northeastern forests with fall colors. This was a one day NRE.
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.
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.
Photos by Stefan Slutsky.
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!
With over 2,000 entries this year, the World Masters Orienteering Championships (WMOC) in Girona, Spain, was clearly the place to be. The WMOC is the IOF championship event for those aged 35 and older, and every year Masters athletes from around the world travel to compete, some of them against friends they’ve known for many decades.
All photos from Evalin Brautigam. Map snippets from Livelox.
There were 34 US athletes in attendance this year, from clubs all over the country. The highlights for the US contingent include three podium trips for Sharon Crawford (W80), who earned a bronze in the sprint, and silver in both the middle and long. Over in M80, Peter Gagarin earned bronze medals in the sprint and long.
There does not appear to be an official repository for routes and maps, but this search on Livelox should get you some wildcat entries with plenty to look at.
Lots more results, splits, and photos on the official WMOC site.
Host: Bay Area Orienteering Club (BAOC)
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The 2025 European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) took place 17-20 July, 2025 in Brno, Czechia. EYOC is a competition for men and women in the -16 and -18 age groups, and a chance for young orienteers from many countries to get together and face serious competition in a friendly environment. This is the first year that the US sent an official team, with four women and five men (announcement) making up the ranks.
As this is the European Youth Orienteering Championships, the official results only include those representing European countries. Official or not, there were certainly some US results worth writing home about! Especially in the Long, with Alex Eriksson 30th (of 109) in M16 and Erik Fey 38th (of 114) in M18.
The 2025 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) took place in Kuopio, Finland, July 8-12 2025. The US sent a team of four men and four women to compete in a program consisting of a Middle Qualification, Middle Final, Long Final, and Relay. Meet the team on the blog!
Anthony Riley and Ali Crocker both qualified for the Middle Final, and finished 43rd and 47th, respectively. Ali then had the best US finish in the Long Final, at 41st, while Joe Barrett had the best finish for the men in 46th. The men’s and women’s relay teams wrapped up the week with 28th and 23rd place finishes.
Team USA photos by Evalin Brautigam.
