Welcome to Newcastle Orienteering Club

Orienteering is a competitive or non-competitive recreational activity in which participants use a detailed map (and usually a compass) to navigate between checkpoints (known as “controls”) along an unfamiliar course. If you like a mental and physical challenge and exploring the outdoors, orienteering is the sport for you!

NEW TO ORIENTEERING? Click here for more information.

See what's on by clicking on the Club Event Series buttons below or see all orienteering events by going to the  Orienteering Event Calendar (Eventor).

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    Run or walk, compete against yourself or others, or a fun family day out. Classic "forest" orienteering for all in the great outdoors. (Mar-Sept)
   Run, walk or push a pram to a 45 minute time limit. How many points can you get? (Oct-Feb)
    A great introduction to orienteering with fun courses in suburban parks & reserves. Also includes a night event. (Feb-Mar)
    Navigate around bush tracks and trails on your mountain bike. The     BOSS series offers 75 minute score & line+score events. (Oct-Mar)

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NOY3 – Delight & Horror at Glendale

Club officials were delighted with the huge turnout at yesterdays “National Orienteering Day” event, but horrified that they had underestimated it so much that the map supply was exhausted 45 minutes before last official start.

Great weather and a map close to the clubs population base were the combining factors that produced this large number of competitors. Eventually more maps were sourced and all competitors were able to make their way onto their selected course.

Looking through the results it’s strange to see that in every class the winner was quite a considerable margin ahead of second place. The smallest winning margin (1:54) being Swedish visitor Joakim Lindholm over Graeme Taplin in the Long Orange.

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