Mike Robinson The Service High School Ukraine Club is hosting an orienteering & potluck event this Saturday from 2-7pm at Service High School as a fundraiser for Ukraine. The event is free but donations are suggested with cash and paypal being accepted at the meet. 100% of the proceeds will go towards supporting Ukrainian soldiers and citizens. … Read more
Start: Kincaid Chalet Time: 6:00pm mass start Come celebrate the end of the season with a 45 minute Score-O! Directly after the meet in the chalet we will have the annual meeting with pizza, door prizes, awards, and more! You could even become a board member! No electronic punch, this is using old-school manual punch. … Read more
The spectacular and sunny fall weather tempted 34 hardy participants to come out and try the Super Big Bike-O, a “Tour of Anchorage” bike orienteering event using five different base maps: Glen Alps / Hemlock Knob, Far North Bicentennial Park, UMED district, Earthquake Park and Kincaid. Racers on the (not-so) Short and Long courses started … Read more
The downpour has stopped and the weather forecasters say Sunday is supposed to be mostly sunny. So fluff up the tires on your mountain bike and come on out for the Super-Big Bike-O, a grand tour of Anchorage parks and trails, from Hillside (or Glen Alps) to Kincaid. Registration and map pickup will be from … Read more
Along with the numerous moose and bear along the trails, a small but hearty group of bikers and runners took on the slightly muddy trails for the Wednesday night Bike-O at Kincaid. The quickest on the bike around the 7 km Long course was Scott Patterson posting a time of 45:29 min, with Linda Smith … Read more
Bring your bicycle for this Bike-O meet in the rolling terrain at Kincaid featuring the very best of single track and ski trails. Choose between a 7.5 km long course and a 4.2 km short course. A bike is encourage but runners are allowed and as usual beginners are welcome. Please respect any one-ways on … Read more
True story: A few years ago, I was in Helsinki for a conference. My wife and I walked by the beautiful Helsinki Senate Square which was packed with hundreds of spectators watching the finish of some running event. I joked that is was likely an orienteering event: It was! It was a World Cup Sprint … Read more
The Sprint Series pursuit is set. Come join the club for the final sprint event of the year at Bartlett on Wednesday Sept 6th. The start will be just east of the football field. Park by the swimming pool. There will be a Long (3.2 km, 18 controls) and a Short (2.2 km, 10 controls). … Read more
It is a fast, fun and sometimes wet meet out at APU on Wednesday, August 30. Scott Patterson had the fastest time on the 4k long course, beating out the team of Peter and Curtis by only two seconds! On the 2k short course, Team Elizabeth had the fastest time. I think it is shaping … Read more
The Super Big Bike-O will be postponed until Sunday, September 24th due to the new bridge construction on the Tour of Anchorage trail in Far North Bicentennial Park. The trail is currently unrideable: a muddy, sloppy, wet mess due to the heavy construction equipment that has been back and forth across it. But the contractor … Read more