Wednesday, August 8, 2013 Russian Jack Park and Alaska Pacific University Colony narrowly edged East High School in average points per team at the Tuesday afternoon orienteering event held at Russian Jack and APU. Approximately 375 high school cross country runners and coaches from seven schools opened the season with an orienteering meet. Colony High … Read more
Wednesday, August 8, 2013 University of Alaska, Anchorage The Arctic Orienteering Club’s Relay Orienteering Race on Wednesday (8/7/13) was won by the team of Lindsey Flagstad, Trond Flagstad and Trond Jensen. The race was held on the UAA campus and consisted of four courses for teams of any number. The long course was 3.2 km … Read more
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 Mirror Lake Middle School Almost 50 Alaskans were brave enough to orienteer in the blistering sun of the 31st outrageously warm day in July. Ian Moore won the long and difficult red course in 1 hour 15 minutes and 13 seconds, beating birthday boy Cory Smith by a mere 22 seconds. … Read more
In order to participate at the upcoming Mirror Lake event, you must be on the registration list by midnight Tuesday, July 30. If you are not on the list, add yourself with our on-line form before midnight.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 Trond Flagstad’s sprint-O at UAA Approximately 85 people enjoyed a sunny evening of sprint orienteering on the UAA campus. Jen Jolliff won the women’s long course (3.2km) in 32:08 and Lars Spurkland won the men’s division on the same course with a time of 24:26. Joe Anders 16:50 and Lorryh Wilhelm … Read more
Route Gadget is a fun way to compare your route choices with other orienteers. It is also a great way to see how you could improve, and to answer questions like Was it faster to go left or right around the lake? Anyone can use Route Gadget to see the route choices of the Red … Read more
We still do not have a meet director for the Hillside Bike-O scheduled for July 10th, so it has been pulled from the schedule. In addition, we do not have a meet director for the traditional meet scheduled for July 24th, so that meet has been tentatively cancelled as well. If anything changes, we will update … Read more
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.