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.

Next GPHXO Orienteering Event -- Dec. 14

The Greater Phoenix O Club's next orienteering event will be held on December 14, 2019 at Needle Rock.

For details about this event and more information about GPHXO events, go to their website.

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: