The board meet virtually earlier this week to make decisions about the upcoming season in light of social distancing and hygene practices to help flatten the curve of the pandemic. We believe that orienteering can be done safely but not the way we typically run our meets with people milling about at the start/finish and the touching of signup sheets, punches, and punch cards. Therefore we have cancelled the meets in late April and May. We will take a wait and see approach about meets later in the season.
In place of the cancelled meets, we are planning to offer a series of informal self-guided training activities to start the season, sort of “virtual meets” if you will. A set of courses with controls (or some other type of flagging) will be set up at a different venue each week in May. Printable PDFs of the courses will be available for free on website after a brief online registration. The courses will be available all week, just pick whatever day and time and get outside to enjoy some orienteering. You won’t punch the control so bring a pen to mark off the controls you visit on the map. You can record your start and finish time as well. We hope to have some way on the website for people to share their times and maybe discuss their good route choices or epic mistakes.
Stay tuned for further details and be safe!