The Orienteering Club thanks the following shops for donating door prizes for our Annual Meeting Alaska Mountaineering & Hiking Great Harvest Bread Company Skinny Raven The Sports Shop These stores are awesome. Please show your support for those that support orienteering in Alaska! Individual donations: Healthy Futures – enabling children to orienteer for free BP … Read more
Wednesday, October 8,2014 APU Campus and Russian Jack Park A 45 minute Score-O format with 20 points/min penalty for late returns. Only 6 teams* braved the cold waters of University Lake to collect the 50 point offered for a short wade to an offshore control. No beaver bites were reported. Competitor Score Andrew Lee 530 … Read more
Board Meeting: Wednesday, September 17th, 2014, 7 – 9 pm @ Billmans Meeting called to order at 7:10, by Trond Jensen, President Attendees: Mike Robinson; Kathy Faryniarz; Trond Jensen; Jen Joliff; Dan Billman; Art Harmon; Chris Tomsen; Regan Sarwas; Joyce Goodell; Dela Grey The previous meeting’s minutes were approved by Mike, Seconded by Kathy. Planning … Read more
Please come have some pizza, talk Orienteering, and elect next year’s Board. See the agenda for more details.
Sunday, September 28, 2014 Service High School It was another beautiful day for a long Fall-O. Times are given in hr:min. Red course 8.9 km, 20 controls Men: 1. Ian Moore 1:45; 2. Trond Jensen 1:54; 3. Tobias Schwoerer 2:02; 4. Steve Gruhn 2:22; 5. Dan Billman 2:54 6. Regan Sarwas 3:01 Green course 6.2 … Read more
Sunday, September 21, 2014 Mirror Lake map 31 people came out to enjoy a sunny Equinox afternoon in the woods on Eklutna lands behind Mirror Lake Middle School. Recently fallen leaves obscured a few trails, but the first-timers prevailed to complete their courses. Ian Moore and Jen Jolliff both declared that it was a fun … Read more
Saturday, September 13, 2014 Crevasse Moraine Orienteerers who made the trek out to Palmer on Saturday discovered that the weather was better there. Rain ended by late morning, and a least one person reported being struck by sunshine! Seventeen people ran the four courses; 12 finished their courses. A few took some interesting extra twists … Read more
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014 Elmore Ballfields A perfect sunny fall evening was the setting for the Fun O. About 65 participants showed up for the event. Due to some control elves or animals or other circumstances, no one was able to complete the two expert courses in the allotted time, but many determined souls spent … Read more
Sunday, August 24th, 2014 in the Chugach Mountains Cory Smith prevailed against wind, rain, and a strong field of runners to win the Mountain Goat Race. The race challenged runners to navigate through a 20+ km loop through the Chugach Mountains above Anchorage. Each segment of the race offered choices of routes so the competitors … Read more
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 Russian Jack Park and APU/UAA East High won the school team division of the Back to School-O with their team averaging 374.4 points per group. Colony was right behind with a 327.3 average. The winning high school group was the South team of Grant Klug, Arthur Welsh, Alex Kilby and Scott … Read more