Orienteering Sunday

Today I ran and orienteering event at Lake Kanawauke. I ran the red course, which was the most advanced course offered at the event. If the course were run along the red lines, it would be 6.55km (4.07 miles). Here’s the map:

I had a watch with a split lap timer, but I [...]

Orienteering and First Light

HVO’s weekly orienteering training was on Thursday, so after work I went up to Black Rock Mountain (a bit west of Little Long Pond in Harriman Park). We did sprint training, which means that the controls were about 150 to 400 feet apart. Thanks to my new watch, I’m able to time each [...]

Sunday Snow Fun

This morning, I went to an orienteering event near Lake Sebago in Harriman Park. I tried out an Orange course, which is the intermediate course. Here’s the course map. The controls are circled in red. I’ve highlighed the route I took in yellow:

The straight distance from marker to marker was about [...]

Family orienteering hike

Last week, a co-worker was telling me about orienteering. Turns out that there’s a Hudson Valley club. There’s an event next week at Lake Sebago in Harriman Park. Anyway, he lent me an orienteering map from the 1979 Orienteering World Cup. The course used for that tournament has been made permanent, [...]