Introductory mapping training opportunity

There are a handful of spaces available for a series of three FREE online mapping workshops from Jeff Teutsch of Navigation Sports. The workshops are designed for members of Grizzly Orienteering, but are applicable to anyone interested in learning the basics of orienteering mapping. The training will take place on Thursdays, November 20, December 4, and December 11 from 5:30pm-8:00pm Mountain Time.

Subjects covered in the three sessions will be:

  • Intro to mapping/Starting a map project
  • Using OCAD
  • Generating basic contours

If you are interested and able to commit to attending all three online sessions in real time, please contact the Mapping Committee at Mapping@nullorienteeringusa.org to get yourself on the list of candidates for the available spaces. Please tell us:

  • who you are,
  • your OUSA club affiliation,
  • about your mapping experience, if any, and
  • what mapping project(s) you would hope to work on within a year of taking the training.

To reiterate, thanks to grant funding from OUSA these workshops are being provided FREE OF CHARGE to participants. We hope to see this opportunity fully subscribed. Email applications for spaces should be submitted no later than midnight on Friday, November 7.

WCOC Brooksvale Park NRE Event Recap

Oct 26, 2026

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.

Results, Maps, and Photos

Photos by Evalin Brautigam and Mike Minium

The US Ski Orienteering Team Starts Program Accelerate 2033 and a fundraiser as the first step!

Coach Carl Fey, Euell Browne, Erik Fey, Liam Browne, and Mark Fey at European, Youth Ski Orienteering Championships Posio, Finland March 2025


Orienteering USA’s vision is to create a single, unified orienteering community. A community committed to filling the forests, the woods, the parks, and the fields with enthusiastic orienteers. We are on a mission to enhance that vision on the snow! Program Accelerate 2033 has launched. This is a step by step plan to develop elite US ski orienteers. The goal is to have at least two American athletes in the top 10 at the World Ski Orienteering
Championships by 2033.

Honestly, it has been a while since the US garnered much attention in the world of SkiO. In 2011 Alison Crocker earned 8th place World Ski Orienteering Championships: the best ever American result! Our initial step to connect with those days was in March 2025. The youth team competed in Posio, Finland. Under the knowledge and enthusiasm of Coach Carl Fey two sets of American brothers represented the USA: Erik & Mark Fey with Liam & Euell Browne. Erik led the way with historic results, placing 5th in the long, 6th in the sprint, 6th in the middle, and anchoring the US boys to 6th in the relay—marking the best-ever individual finish by a non-European male in a major international SkiO event!

The USA’s 2025-2026 Junior SkiO team has grown from four to six athletes. They are fundraising for their upcoming travel to Luleå, Sweden where they will compete at Junior World and European Youth Ski Orienteering Championships. Donations will be used to help the team to take part in the races in Sweden and Program Accelerate 2033.

Our six athletes are seeking pledges for each training kilometer (km) covered by ski, roller ski, or foot during the month of December, 2025. Individual athletes receive pledges and all money raised goes to the overall team fund. Pledges and donations can be made at 99pledges.com. Donate $25 or more and we will send you an “Orienteering USA Junior SkiO Supporter” sticker! Very generously, Larry and Sara Mae Berman are matching donations for our first $2000!! We are very thankful for them helping make each donation make a greater impact.

Donate

Learn more about Orienteering USA SkiO.

We look forward to an amazing season!

For more information please contact: Coach Carl Fey at carlffey@nullgmail.com or Kara Browne at binear@nullyahoo.com, PO Box 8041, Kalispell, MT 59904.

US Ski Orienteering Team to the 2026 World SkiO Champs Selected

Orienteering USA is pleased to announce that the US Ski Orienteering Team
Executive Steering Committee has completed selection of the US Team to the 2026 World
Championships in Rusutsu, Hokkaido, Japan, March 1–7, 2026. The following
people have been selected:


Men
Chris Burnham, Green Mountain Orienteering Club
Josh Eaton, Empire Orienteering Club

Women
Tamra Kornfield, Arctic Orienteering Club

For more information about the US Ski-Orienteering Team please contact US Team
Coach Carl Fey at carlffey@nullgmail.com.

US Teams to 2026 Junior World and European Youth Ski Orienteering Championships Announced

Orienteering USA is pleased to announce the teams to represent the US in the 2026 Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships and the 2026 European Youth Ski Orienteering Championships. Both competitions will take place February 4 – 8, 2026, in Luleå, Sweden.

The team was selected by the US Ski Orienteering Team Executive Committee. It is especially exciting that four of the six athletes selected come from Grizzly Orienteering Club in Montana, which is quickly becoming a hub of US ski orienteering talent.

US Team for the 2026 Junior World Ski-Orienteering Championships
Liam Browne, Grizzly Orienteering Club
Erik Fey, Rochester Orienteering Club and NSK

US Team for the 2026 European Youth Ski-Orienteering Championships
Boys Team
Euell Browne, Grizzly Orienteering Club
Espen Chitty, Grizzly Orienteering Club
Mark Fey, Rochester Orienteering Club and Nydalens SK

Girls Team
Caroline Chitty, Grizzly Orienteering Club

For more information about the US Ski-Orienteering Team please contact US Team
Coach Carl Fey at carlffey@nullgmail.com.

2025 Nationals Event Recap

October 11-13, 2025

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.

  • Venues:
    • Rocky Woods Reservation (Middle), Medfield, MA
    • Powissett Peak (Long), Dover, MA
    • Boston’s North End (Sprint), Boston, MA
  • Personnel:
    • Event director: Jon Campbell
    • Race directors: Kristin Hall (Sat & Sun), Barb Bryant (Mon)
    • Course Setters: Magnus Bjorkman (Middle), John Nash (Long), Graeme Ackland (Sprint)
    • OUSA Course consultant: Dave Tallent

Event Website

Results

Media

2025 Nationals Online Course Review

Join us on Google Meet this Thursday, October 16th at 8:30pm ET for a course review of interesting legs from this past weekend’s Sprint, Middle, and Long Championships!

If you ran at Nationals and have a request for legs to discuss, or would like to talk about your own routes, please fill out this survey.

October Forum: Athlete’s Primer to “Forest” Orienteering Maps

The October forum will take place on Thursday, October 23rd at 8:30pm ET on Google Meet.

Join members of Orienteering USA’s Mapping Committee, Jon Campbell, Jon Torrance, and Cristina Luis, for a presentation and discussion of the kinds of things a non-mapper might want to know about the mapping standards for forest (non-sprint) events (ISOM 2017-2 for those of you keeping score at home).

Experienced O-mappers know the specifications and notice map details that you might not know are “a thing.”  Every orienteer, from novice to seasoned champion, can learn something about an O-map that can help them navigate well and compete better.  What’ll you learn?

Join on Google Meet on Thursday, October 23rd at 8:30pm ET.