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There is a wealth of events to choose from over the coming weeks so be sure to mark your calendars and don’t miss out on your chance to try all types of orienteering sprint, mountain bike and bush events are all on offer. On Saturday 27^th May there is NavDash at Canning Vale College, while you can get on your mountain bike on Sunday 28^th May with MTBO at Langford Park. Don’t forget the WA Classic is soon too, with 2 events over the long weekend on 4^th and 5^th June with camping on the...

The WA Classic is a two day event that will be a highlight of your long weekend. Sunday afternoon and Monday morning gives you plenty of time to fit your Orienteering fix into your three day break. With camping available on the map on Sunday night why not make it your weekend getaway.

Weeknight Winter Training returns on Thursday nights with lightpole orienteering starting this Thursday and for Juniors there is the Schools Championships plus the Junior Camp coming soon so remember to get your...

Don't forget the Be Active Schools Championships are coming up and the Be Active WA Primary School Championships on Wednesday the 30th August are now open for entries.

Sunday 7th May

For the first bush orienteering of the season we head back to the Helena Valley and onto the Malmalling map. With plenty of rock and abundant grass trees and few hills the area is an ideal return the bush. Much of the area offers good open runability as it was many years ago a farm which has left it without too much undergrowth. What a great place to start your Western Australian bush orienteering for 2017.

Instructors are available at each event to guide newcomers through the...

Sunday 2nd July

Location: Spice Brook, near Bindoon

Spice Brook is one of WA’s premier complex spur and gully bush areas with additional rock detail but also a network of watercourses and tracks for the easier courses. The area has generally open running in mature forest, with only a few thicker sections of bush. This event will also provide our juniors the finale to the WA Junior camp.

Instructors are available at each event to guide newcomers through the registration process and help you get...

Saturday 15th July

Location: Ascot & Interclub relays

The 2017 Interclub Relays will be at Garvey Park Sprint Map. Teams are organised prior to the event via your club, so if you have entered a team make sure to be there by 12.30pm to completed team registration and be at the briefing and mass start.

The relay briefing will be at 12.45pm and  the mass start at 1pm

Up for grabs is the Rutty Rock Club Relay Trophy. Relay Orienteering is fast, furious fun as the runners come through tagging their...

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Foreign Correspondent Report from New Zealand

The World Masters Games are held every 4 years and this edition is in Auckland with some 28,000 athletes from 100 countries makes for a colourful city and buzz around the cafes and bars.  The opening ceremony was held at Eden Park, the home of the All Blacks, with Mauri dancing, lasers and a few speeches. The WMG is an open competition and the athletes range from Ex-Olympians to the typical “man on the street”, the oldest competitor at 101 years....

Saturday 29th April 2017

NavDash 4 : Murdoch University

NavDash returns on Saturday afternoon, utilising another of our popular and challenging campus maps.

NavDash are short distance (2-3.5kms), line courses where controls must be visited in the numerical order shown for each course, making the most of the complex buildings and passages of a university campus. The hard courses are navigationally challenging while the easy course is more suitable for novices and children.

The course lengths,...

Need a print version of the 2017 Program? The Orienteering Event Calendar 2017 is available as  PDF.

Download and print a copy for your fridge or the car and don't miss an event all year.

Saturday 8 April 2017

Location: John Forrest National Park

John Forrest is a long-time favourite for orienteers and the sprint map based around the Wildflower Tavern makes the most use paths, picnic areas and the bush.

Registration: 1-2pm
Starts: from 1.30pm until 3pm
Beginners Briefing: 1.30pm
Courses available: long, short and easy
Pre-entry is not required.
Event Details in Eventor

If you are new to NavDash perhaps you might like some Sprint Orienteering tips or make sure you arrive in time...

The Secondary Schools Championship on Wednesday 21 June 2017 and  Primary Schools Championship on Wednesday 30 August 2017 will both be held at Whiteman Park.

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2017 Be Active WA Secondary Schools Orienteering Championship

Entries for this event are now closed but the registration information is available below.

Secondary School Champs...

Saturday 20th May 2017

Location: Edith Cowan University, Mt Lawley campus

This Campus offers a lot of choices for Sprint Orienteering, with overlays of buildings added over time making subtle route choices, which will reward the quick thinking as well as the fast moving orienteers.

This event is the first State Orienteering League (SOL) event of the year, which means coming along can earn you points in the Orienteer of the Year awards for 2017. Learn what the SOL is all about. Check the...

Saturday 27 May 2017

Location: Canning Vale Collge, Canning Vale

This a newly extended map, so a great chance to be one of the first to run on this popular and now larger map. NavDash provides a quick, easy to learn orienteering experience. Compact areas with complex features set NavDash events apart.

Registration: 1-2pm
Starts: from 1.30pm until 3pm
Beginners Briefing: 1.30pm
Courses available: long, short and easy
Pre-entry is not required.
Event Details in Eventor

If you are new to NavDash...

Sunday 25th June 2017

Location: Dale Rd, Karragullen

For the next in the series of Mountain Bike Orienteering events we return to the popular Kangaroo Gully Map, with former national MTBO Manager Ian Dalton setting expect some first class courses to test your MTBO skills.

Registration: 9am - 11am
Starts: from 9.30am until 11.30am
Courses Close: 1pm

Courses available: Long - 34km  Medium- 24km and Short - 13km 

Pre-entry is not required.Registration is on the day.

Post event: Free Sausage sizzle and...