Edmonton Overlanders Orienteering Club 

celebrates

National Orienteering Week

May 1 - 9

with 9 events in 9 days
Friday May 7 - Middle distance     Saturday May 8 -  6-hour or 2-hour score event    Sunday  
Wear old clothes including LONG PANTS.
Conveniently located at Blackfoot Recreation Area, just east of Sherwood Park. Location map. Directions.   Most of the map is in a 4.5km2 grazing field with contour detail, patches of trees and a fence around, making an ideal learning environment for beginner and intermediate orienteers to develop skills.  For advanced orienteers added challenge is provided by some controls in the wooded areas and in the forest around the field and adaptive maps.
Entry fees
Different activities every day for all skill levels from complete beginner to advanced orienteer. Beginners' clinics offered during registration times - just ask.
All events go RAIN or SHINE.
IMPORTANT STUFF: 
All participants must register each time and sign a waiver each time.
All participants must sign out with the starter.
All participants must check back in by the time stated and return rented SI cards and compasses each day.
every day There will always be an option of a beginners' Score O (visit controls in any order)  every day.
Sat May 1
Results		 Classic distance point-to-point - 
Sun May 2
Results		 The same courses as the previous day.  
Mon May 3 Window O courses to learn/practice compass and terrain-to-map skills. Sample window and corridor courses  Three levels offered
Tues May 4 Corridor O courses to learn/practice map-to-terrain skills.
Sample window and corridor courses   Three levels offered
Wed May 5
Results		 Regular Wednesday evening courses: short/easy, medium and long 
Thurs May 6 Orienteering legs designed for map simplification, using CAR and sketch maps. 
Fri May 7 Middle-distance point-to-point courses - 
novice/intermediate;  advanced and longer advanced.
Sat May 8 6 hour score O done in pairs or small groups OR
2 hour score O done in pairs or small groups
Sun May 9 Training exercise or course of your choice from 
- Saturday's score O (but you won't have 6 hours to do it!)
- left over middle distance courses
- left over Wednesday courses: short/easy, medium, long (some also available on contours only maps)
- window O (all three levels)
- corridor O (two levels)
- beginner score O
Register 10:00am - 1:00pm.  Check back in by 3:00pm.  Control pick-up begins at 3:01pm
ENTRY FEES:
Non-members: $10 per entry*/per day
Members:  $5 per entry*/per day
* an entry is an individual, or a couple going out together sharing a map, or a family or small group going out together sharing a map.  
The fee includes: 
- a map,
- SPORTident timing card rental if needed (drivers license required as deposit; replacement charge of $40 for a lost card)
- rental compass if needed (drivers license required as deposit)
- a whistle to keep (and bring again to other events)  Or bring your own; any whistle will do. 
- a beginners clinic or special skill clinic if needed
(additional maps for a group going out together available for $3 each)
IMPORTANT STUFF: 
All participants must register each time and sign a waiver each time.
All participants must sign out with the starter.
All participants must check back in by the time stated and return rented SI cards and compasses each day.
FACILITIES: Better than average outhouses on site. Shelter.  Cell phone coverage.  Some drinking water provided out on the course (but take your own supply for longer events).
ORGANISER:  Geraint Edmunds (COF Level 3 Official)
QUERIES:  EOOC Events Coordinator  or (780) 455-1916
DIRECTIONS: 20km east of Sherwood Park     Location map.
Easiest route is east along the Yellowhead Hwy to the Elk Island National Park flag pole, then south down RR 210 for about 7km. Turn left into the Blackfoot Grazing Area, Waskehegan Trail Head parking lot. Registration will probably be in the shelter on the east side of the parking lot.
Or east along Baseline Road (becomes Twp 530) to the T junction with RR210. Turn right and go south for about 4km. Turn into the Blackfoot Grazing Area, Waskehegan Trail Head parking lot.  Registration will probably be in the shelter on the east side of the parking lot.
Or east along Wye Road. Just after the road bends to the southeast, turn left onto Twp 524, crossing the railroad tracks. Continue east to the T junction with RR210. Turn right and drive south for just over 1km. Turn into the Blackfoot Grazing Area, Waskehegan Trail Head parking lot.  Registration will probably be in the shelter on the east side of the parking lot.
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