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!

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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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Runners clean up at Rathmines

Event: Summer Street Series 10
Location: Rathmines
Entries: 76
Weather: Mild

Another event on the shores of Lake Macquarie, this time at Catalina Park at Rathmines - the WW2 Catalina flying boat base. Some of the clues used the signs indicating the location of various parts of the base, & some of it is hard to recognise in the bush and scrub regrowth.

Thanks Glen, hope you enjoyed setting your first event as we enjoyed running it.

It is Council bulky goods collection week, so there was plenty of old furniture, dead whitegoods and assorted junk in piles around the streets. The small surf-ski we picked up from the house next to #2E may turn out OK, or at least be convertable to a pirate boat by my nephews.

(stolen) from Russell Rigby's maptalk entry

Did anybody notice the bike up the hill from #2A and offered up for council collection. It was early on my course but even then I was really tired. Thought it might have been a good option to ride it on it's rims past a few controls then dump it on another pile. It had no tyres but everything else looked fine and I was very tempted. Fair play won out in the end as I thought I shouldn't set a bad example to other competitors.

Geoff Peel

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