Wednesday, June 26, 2013 Far North Bicentennial Park – Abbott Loop Community Park Start Cory Smith and Jen Jolliff outran the mosquitos and their fellow competitors as they won the advanced Red Course at Andrew’s Orienteering on Wednesday. Thanks to Anne Billman, who helped pick up controls. Red, 5.9 km, 13 controls Men 1) Cory … Read more
Wednesday, June 19th 2013 Mirror Lake Over 50 people made it out to Mirror Lake despite two traffic delays on the highway–a semi-truck on fire and a black bear struck by a car. The weather was beautiful but the ferocious clouds of misquitos made orienteering difficult. Ian Moore lead the field in the men’s red … Read more
Monday’s training for advancing orienteers will be mostly ‘armchair’ training, with a little in the woods. We’ll discuss navigation strategies to be used on the Mirror Lake map. Location: Billlmans’ house, 9700 Prospect Drive. Call 345-1749 if you need directions.
6/12/2013 Storck Park, Section 36 Approximately 80 people enjoyed a hot and sunny evening of Billygoat Orienteering at Storck Park in Bear Valley. In a Billygoat event, all racers start together in a mass-start, and are allowed to follow other competitors. This head-to-head competition makes for an exciting race. Some of the fast, young bucks … Read more
The intermediate/advanced field training originally scheduled for Monday 6/10 at 6:30 is now on Tuesday, June 11 at 6:15pm. Both the time and date have changed. The location is still at Storck Park.
Wednesday, June 5th 2013 Hillside Trails Approximately 150 people enjoyed a beautiful and challenging day of orienteering at Hillside Park. Ian Moore was the fastest competitor on the 6.4 kilometer Red course, finishing in 1:13:22. Thanks to the following volunteers for helping to put on the meet: Dan and Anne Billman, Jeremy Crawford, Karen and … Read more
The Arctic Orienteering Club needs you! We have two meets scheduled this summer (July 24th & July 31st) that still do not have meet directors. We will have to cancel these meets if we do not find directors. If you’ve never run a meet before, that’s okay–we can pair you up with a veteran director … Read more
Arctic Orienteering Club Board Meeting Minutes 4/24/2013 Members Present: Dan Billman, Regan Sarwas, Trond Jensen, Jen Jolliff, Chris Tomsen, Dela Grey, Karen Bronga, Bill Johnson, Mike Robinson, Toby Schwoerer, Joyce Goodell, Kathy Faryniarz Meeting called to order 7:14pm Old Business Web Site Regan presented new website (oalaska.orghttps://oalaska.org/) and group decided it was ready to roll … Read more
Wednesday May 29, 2013 Far North Bicentennial Park Over 100 people came out to enjoy a most excellent evening of orienteering in the very sunny, and sometime soggy Far North Bicentennial Park. Ian Moore topped all men in the red (expert) course with a time of 1:05:21. Lorena Knapp won the red course for the … Read more
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 JBER-Elmendorf The Arctic Orienteering Club raced five courses on intricate terrain in pre-leaf-out conditions. Ian Moore won the longest course in just under an hour, and David Evans had the fastest time on the short expert course. Of the 42 participants, 31 successfully completed a course. Thanks to Paul Sendhofer for … Read more