Dorn Van Dommelen Hey Alaska Orienteers! Three Alaska courses from 2024 have been nominated in the international 2024 Course of the Year competition on the World of O site. There are over 50 courses nominated, but the voting is open and our courses need your help to win! Look for Cory’s Sprint Series Opener at Earthquake Park, Regan’s … Read more
In the Van Dommelen family, the holidays come with a lot of board games. If only there were a board game that celebrated orienteering!
About 20 orienteers came out on Thursday to select the worst orienteering of the year. It was a fun, raucous activity (or at least boisterous – we are a bunch of geeky orienteers), and we all got the chance to laugh with and at each other. In the end, three orienteers made it past the … Read more
Remember that time it took you forever to find a control? Was it you or was it a mistake by the meet director? That control was total BS and pretty much ruined your night of orienteering. But have no fear, we can still turn your misery into a bit of orienteering fun. On Thursday, November … Read more
The 2024 Arctic Orienteering Sprint Series ended with an exciting, if somewhat rainy finale. The last event was a pursuit and since we mixed things up a bit this year and had three separate pursuits, I’ve listed the final order that racers would have come in if it had been an all-out pursuit race: Scott … Read more
The final sprint championship is set for this coming Wednesday, followed by the club’s annual meeting. Here’s how it will work: From 5-6 come out and run the sprint courses as an Open competitor. Everyone is welcome! It doesn’t matter if you haven’t even run a single sprint. At 6 p.m. we will have the … Read more
Wednesday September 18, 2024 Kincaid Park Over thirty orienteers came out to the Jodphur Loop last night for the Bike-O. The weather was good and the trails decent, though there were certainly a few good puddles and ponds out there. The courses were set on an experimental Bike-O map, which worked well. There were a … Read more
On Wednesday we will have a Bike-O in Kincaid, with starts beginning at the Jodphur trailhead. The event will be a bit different this year as we will be using a more official bike orienteering map. Below is a link to information about the Kincaid Bike-O map. Please read it before you come. There will … Read more
After the first three races, the sprint series is starting to take shape. Fourteen orienteers have qualified for the final event, to be held on September 25th just before the club’s annual meeting. Remember that the final championship is a pursuit. A group of orienteers (last year it was the top 18) will begin the … Read more
The 2024 Sprint Series will consist of five meets, with the final meet of the series being the Championship Final. Dates and locations of the meets are: 8/21: Earthquake Park 8/28: Bartlett 9/4: UAA 9/11: Kincaid 9/25: CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL at Ruth Arcand Each meet will have two courses set, a short course and a … Read more