This year when you file your application for the Permanent Fund Dividend, please consider using Pick. Click. Give. to donate a portion of your dividend to the Arctic Orienteering Club. Your donation helps us with the cost of creating and maintaining high-quality orienteering maps and offsets some of the expenses associated with organizing our events. … Read more
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 … Read more
Date: Friday 11/01/2019 Time: 6:00 pm Location: APU Atwood/Carr Gottstein Parking Lot Back by popular demand, we are doing a night time Score-O to celebrate Halloween (although technically it will be the day after on Friday evening so its not a school night). Mass start at 6 pm when the sun sets.. It will be … Read more
At the end-of-season social and annual membership meeting this past Saturday, the club elected the board of directors for the upcoming year. Eleven of the fourteen board members are returnees having served on the board last year, although several have switched positions. Three members are leaving the board –Dan Billman, Lia Keller, and Andy Olnes. … Read more
Date: Saturday, September 21st Mass start at 5:00 p.m. (arrive early to sign up) Location: Russian Jack Springs Park 1600 Lidia Selkregg Ln, 99504 Russian Jack Score-O Please join us for the last meet of the season! The score-o starts at 5:00 pm. Park near the chalet and follow signs to the start. Please make … Read more
Date: Saturday, Sept 14 Time: 2:00 pm (Billy goat) and 2:15 (Pygmy goat) Location: Little Campbell Lake Kincaid Park off of Raspberry Rd A Billy Goat-O is a mass start where you are encouraged to follow other runners (or try to loose runners if you are being chased). You have to run the map in … Read more
We had to cancel the meet we were trying to plan for this Saturday Sept 7th because no one volunteered to put this on. We do have a volunteer for a meet next weekend on Saturday Sept 14th and then there will be a final meet on Saturday Sept 21st right before the end-of-season social.
The final sprint in the inaugural Sprint Series takes place this coming Wednesday at UAA! The starting point will be the traditional UAA start location in the parking lot to the north of the Wells Fargo Center. There will be a long, short, and white course available with starts from 5 to 8. If you … Read more
Important Update: The meet director can only sponsor 9 people, and all those spots have been claimed. You will not be able to get on base unless you have 1) Pre-registered per the instructions below, or 2) you are one of the 9 people being sponsored by the meet director (she will have told you … Read more
To participate in the Fossil Creek Orienteering event on August 14, 2019, you must have an iSportsman Pass and access to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. iSportsman Pass All orienteers must have an iSportsman Pass and be signed into training areas 411 and 412 for the evening. You can register for an iSportsman Pass at https://jber.isportsman.net Base … Read more