Greasewood Park Results -- 1/18/20

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Written by Jeff Coker

Mother Nature provided the perfect backdrop for Tucson Orienteering Club’s first event of 2020!  We had a great turn out of both new and veteran orienteers who were able to enjoy the fast and runnable terrain of Greasewood Park.

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Register for Southwest Spring Week -- Feb. 15-23!

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Written by Cristina Luis

Checkout the updated information about our February week of good times at the dedicated website.

There are nine days of fun planned with most of the events happening in the Tucson area.  Pre-registration for the weekend events is not required but is highly encouraged!  It helps us figure out how many maps we need each day and set up the e-punch software with all of the participants.

You can register on EventReg.  If you are a current member of an Arizona club then you'll be able to grab an $8/day discount for the weekend/holiday events. 

Catalina State Park Orienteering Results - 11/9/19

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Written by Jeff Coker

The Santa Catalina mountains provided the backdrop for a perfect fall day of orienteering at Catalina State Park!  We had a great turn out of both new and veteran orienteers. 

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100 Years of Public Orienteering Courses

Tucson Orienteering Club member Leif Lundquist has just published an article about orienteering in the Swedish Press.  In their own words, Swedish Press is the world's leading magazine on all good things Swedish.  Public competitive orienteering, which has it's roots in Sweden, is one of those good things.  In the article Leif explains what orienteering is and some of it's history in both Sweden and North America.  The article also features both a map of the world's first public orienteering course near Stockholm (1919) and a map made by the Tucson Orienteering Club (2015)!  To read the full article go to the November 2019 issue of the magazine and read pages 18 and 19.

Orienteering with the Tucson Orienteering Club

Carol Smythe made this video of her adventures on the yellow course during the Southwest Spring Week 2019 at Ironwood Picnic Area in the Tucson Mountains desert: