NavDash Wildflower Tavern

wildflowertavernSaturday 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
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Be Active 2017 WA Schools Orienteering Championships

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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NavDash ECU Mt Lawley

John Curtin Sten resizedSaturday 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

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NavDash Canning Vale College

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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

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MTBO Kangaroo Gully

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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

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Greenmount Foot-O

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Location: Goat Farm Mountain Bike Park

Looking for a different Orienteering experience, this event will be a bit different to your nomal bush event and is set Trail Orienteering style. So while cross country routes will still be an option, longer trail routes will be there for those that

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Be Active 2017 WA Primary Schools Orienteering Championship

Entries for the WA Primary Schools Orienteering Championship close on Friday 4 August.  

The event will be held at Whiteman Park on Wednesday 30 August 2017.

Please review all the information below about the day, specific event details and registration forms.

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Bunbury Weekend - April 1st & 2nd

SWOT logoIt is not an April Fool joke! The weekend of April 1st & 2nd will see SWOT hosting a double header event in Bunbury.  Come enjoy Autumn Orienteering in Bunbury.

The weekend kicks offs with courses in the Maidens Park and the southern edge of the city. The Maidens is a triangular section of sand dunes and bush to the south of Bunbury.  The

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WA representative selected for Australian MTBO team

Ricky Thackray has been rewarded for his great results at the Victorian MTBO championships with selection in the Australian MTBO team heading to the world championship events in Lithuania later this year. After placing 2nd in the sprint, 1st in the long distance and 1st in the middle distance at the event, which were also the selection races, Ricky earnt his place on the Australian team.

Congratulations Ricky!

The Australian MTBO WOC team is

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Happy Easter Break

A break from orienteering in Perth for Easter but there will be plenty of action across the Tasman with the Oceania Championships and the World Masters Orienteering Championships

Best of luck to all those Orienteering WA members, young and old, who are taking part. Some will be in Australian team colours and others for the love of the sport.

Oceania Championships

http://oceania2017.nz/

World Masters Orienteering

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Double header weekend

KarenpunchingWhen one event is not enough!

This weekend you’ll have a chance to leap back into the NavDash at Curtin University as well as enjoy the final Metro Series event, putting your score event skills to the test in Mt Claremont. Sharp quick decisions are needed for the NavDash while considered route planning pays off for score events. Both

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NavDash 2: John Curtin College of the Arts, Fremantle

Sten Run ThroughSunday 26th March 2017

The second NavDash outing for 2017 is on a Sunday morning, taking advantage of a brand new map at John Curtin College of the Arts. There will be plenty of navigational challenges including some small areas of bush next to the school coupled with the school grounds.

The location is close to the many Fremantle coffee shops, perfect for

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Metro Series: Mt Claremont

Sunday 19th March, 2017

Mount Claremont Primary School, Jacaranda Ave, Mount Claremont
Score Event

This is the final summer series event for the 2016/17 series and will follow the score format through the complex street network of Mount Claremont and Graylands Hospital. Don’t forget this is on Sunday morning so don’t be late. Take note of the registration and start time windows and don’t forget your watch and your e-tag, if you have one, as

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NavDash 1: Curtin University, Bentley

Saturday 18th March 2017

NavDash returns for 2017 at one of Perth’s most popular campus maps, with a Saturday afternoon event at Curtin University kicking things off.

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

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Acknowledgement of country

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Orienteering WA acknowledges the Noongar people, the Traditional and continuing Custodians of the land on which we gather to enjoy our sport, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.