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 along an unfamiliar course through bush terrain, parkland or urban areas.  

If you like a physical and mental challenge while 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   Eventor, the orienteering event calendar.

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   Classic "forest" orienteering for all in the great outdoors. Run or walk, compete against yourself or others, or a fun family day out. (Mar-Sept)
   Navigate the suburbs. Run or walk to as many checkpoints as you can within 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 bush tracks on your mountain bike. Our Bike Orienteering Summer Series offers 75 minute score & line+score events. (Oct-Mar)

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                Sunday 24 November 2024 - Minmi 
    Bush Season Presentations & "Blue Gum Hills" event

 Come along and celebrate the 2024 bush season. Presentations include the 2024 Newcastle Orienteer of the Year Series, State League & Junior awards, special club trophies and recognition of volunteers. Enjoy a course beforehand on the "Blue Gum Hills" map. 

                                        Blue Gum Hills Regional Park, Minmi.                                                          Event from 4:00pm. Presentations and socialising/BYO picnic from 5:00pm.

                                                            Details here

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  street Summer Street Series now on  Street O map snippet

                  Every Wednesday

                            5:00pm to 6:30pm start window
                    45 minute score course using MapRun app
 
                                   Next event: New Lambton
                      For details see the Series Calendar

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   mtbo  Sunday 17 November 2024 -  Killingworth

                          "Killingworth North"

Event two in the 2024-25 Bike Orienteering Summer Series (BOSS) on the northern part of the Killingworth MTBO map. "A mixture of recently upgraded formed road, older fire roads, various single track grades and 4WD tracks with ruts and water. Many powerline easements. Tracks on the northern ridge are steep and eroded with very slow sections."
 
                75 minute Score and Line+Score courses using the MapRun app. 
 Start anytime between 8:00am and 9:00am. Suitable for all riders including first-timers.
                                        For details see the Series Calendar  

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IOF logo  Competitors in this season's Bike Orienteering Summer Series should   note changes to the MTBO mappings specifications made by the IOF in   April 2024. 

 The most notable changes are:           
 - New symbol - Unpaved road 
 - New symbol - Unpaved area 
 - New symbol - the start of a continuing course after a map flip/map exchange
 - Change of the width category for narrow/wide tracks from 1.5m to 1.8m
 - Magnetic north lines - change of spacing to: 1000m on the ground at the scale of 1:15000, 1:12500 or 1:10000; 500m for 1:7500 or 1:5000. 
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See here for all MTBO map symbols and BOSS course symbols, including what is ridable/forbidden to ride.
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 mtbo  Australian Mountain Bike Orienteering Champs 
                                Medal Winners

  A small group of Newcastle orienteers competed in the 2024  Australian Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships Carnival, held 18-20 October around Canberra, with three winning championship medals. 

Mass Start Event: First - Presley Scouller-Evans (M12), Carolyn Matthews (W60), Robert Prentice (M70).
Sprint: First - Presley Scouller-Evans (M12), Carolyn Matthews (W60). Second - Robert Prentice (M70).
Middle distance: First - Presley Scouller-Evans (M12), Carolyn Matthews (W60), Robert Prentice (M70).
Long distance: First - Presley Scouller-Evans (M12), Carolyn Matthews (W60), Robert Prentice (M70).

 Full Results:  Mass start   Sprint   Middle   Long

The 2024 National MTBO Series, which counted the best seven of twelve races, also concluded with these four events and saw Carolyn Matthews (W60), Andrew Power (M60) & Robert Prentice (M70) finish on top of their age classes.

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