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
Starts from 5:00 to 7:00 pm (NOT 4pm as previously advertised). All must finish before 9:00 pm. If you preregistered through the Arctic Orienteering website or at the last meet and have your valid Alaska Drivers license, you should be able to enter through the Boniface gate. If you did not preregister, you will have … Read more
Karl and Kathy’s Valley-O Crevasse Moraine May 15, 2013 Several hardy souls braved wind and predicted flurries and tough terrain to compete at Crevass Moraine O Meet in Palmer. White Course (1.8K, 8 controls) 1. Jennifer and Andrew Harmon 41:00; 2. James Family 49:00; 3. Jeff Stroke and Susie Terwilliger 55:00; 4. Steve Sandberg 1:37:00 … Read more
Dela Grey, one of our Arctic Orienteering officers is looking for volunteers to teach girl scouts how to orienteer. The Girl Scout Encampment is being held at Palmer Fairgrounds on Saturday, June 8th. Dela has committed to running two sessions of training for the girls which would include setting up a course around the fairground buildings. … Read more
Jill and Joyce’s Big-O meet Kincaid Park May 8, 2013 The Score-O format meet started at the chalet, with bluebird skies and extremely soggy trails. Points were based on number and difficulty of controls visited within one hour. The highest scoring male finisher was Regan Sarwas with 870 points. The top female was Karen Bronga … Read more
Bummer! Due to the late thaw, we are postponing the advanced field training scheduled for Monday, May 6th. We will try to reschedule this training for later in the summer, but at this point we do not have a date set. The other advanced field training will still be held as scheduled. We will update … Read more
Karl’s EastSide-O, scheduled for May 15th has moved locations. The meet is now Karl’s Valley-O at Crevasse Moraine.
We are sorry to report that the first orienteering meet of the season (Crevasse Moraine on May 1st) has been cancelled due to the late thaw. There is still significant snow in the area, especially on the north facing slopes and in the depressions.