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Table of contents

1 Western U.S. Orienteering Clubs 2 All U.S. Orienteering Clubs 3 Western Canada Orienteering Clubs 4 Event Companies (also see the Vendors page) 5 Orienteering Schedule Roundups 6 Orienteering Around the World 7 Miscellaneous Orienteering Sites 8 Outdoor Activities 9 Running Activities 10 Other Interesting Links

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Western U.S. Orienteering Clubs

• California
  • BAOC – Bay Area Orienteering Club, San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
  • GCO (http://www.goldcountryorienteers.org) – Gold Country Orienteers, Sacramento, CA.
    BAOC's sister club, based in Sacramento. Events are usually co-listed on our schedule.
  • Nav-X (http://www.navxchallenge.com) – Nav-X Map Adventures, Santa Rosa, CA
  • Truckee (http://www.truckeeorienteering.org) – Truckee Orienteering Club, Truckee, CA
  • LAOC (http://laorienteering.org) – Los Angeles Orienteering Club, Los Angeles, CA
  • SDO (http://www.sandiegoorienteering.org) – San Diego Orienteering, San Diego, CA

• Alaska
  • ARCTIC (http://oalaska.org) – Arctic Orienteering Club, Anchorage, AK

• Arizona
  • GPHXO (http://gphxo.org) – Greater Phoenix Orienteering Club, Phoenix, AZ
  • TSN (http://www.tucsonorienteeringclub.org) – Tucson Orienteering Club, Tucson, AZ

• Colorado
  • RMOC (http://www.rmoc.org) – Rocky Mountain Orienteering Club, Denver, CO

• Idaho
  • CTOC (http://ctoc-boise.blogspot.com) – City of Trees Orienteering Club, Boise, ID

• Montana
  • GrizO (https://www.grizzlyorienteering.org) – Grizzly Orienteering, Missoula, MT

• New Mexico
  • NMO (https://www.nm-orienteers.org) – New Mexico Orienteers, Albuquerque, NM

• Oregon
  • CROC (http://www.croc.org) – Columbia River Orienteering Club, Portland, OR

• Utah
  • OUTAH (http://www.o-utah.org) – Orienteering Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

• Washington
  • COC (http://cascadeoc.org) – Cascade Orienteering Club, Seattle, WA
  • EWOC (http://www.ewoc.org) – Eastern Washington Orienteering Club, Spokane, WA
  • FRR (http://blog.forestruns.com) – Forest Runs, Seattle, WA

• Wyoming
  • LROC (http://sites.google.com/site/laramierangeorienteeringclub/) – Laramie Range Orienteering Club, Laramie, WY

All U.S. Orienteering Clubs

All the U.S. orienteering clubs can be found on the Orienteering USA website here (http://orienteeringusa.org/events/clubs). You can search by city or ZIP code in this map (http://orienteeringusa.org/events/clubs/#wpgmza_map_2) (clubs are listed by state below the map).

Western Canada Orienteering Clubs

• OABC (http://www.orienteeringbc.ca) – Orienteering Association of British Columbia
  • GVOC (http://gvoc.whyjustrun.ca) – Greater Vancouver Orienteering Club, Vancouver, BC
  • KOC (http://kootenayorienteering.com) – Kootenay Orienteering Club, Rossland, Cranbrook, and Kimberly, BC
  • SAGE (http://sage.whyjustrun.ca) – Sage Orienteering Club, Kamloops, BC
  • WOC (http://whistler.whyjustrun.ca) – Whistler Orienteering Club, Whistler, BC
  • VICO (http://vico.whyjustrun.ca) – Victoria Orienteering Club, Victoria, BC
• AOA (http://orienteeringalberta.ca) – Alberta Orienteering Association
  • EOOC (http://orienteer.ab.ca) – Edmonton Overlanders Orienteering Club, Edmonton, AB
  • FWOC (http://orienteeringcalgary.ca) – Foothills Orienteering Club, Calgary, AB

Event Companies (also see the Vendors page)

• MerGeo (http://www.mergeo.com) – Meridian Geographics, Seattle, WA – Eric Bone – Organizes Street Scrambles®, trail runs, adventure races, scavenger hunts, and cross-country navigation races, including the annual San Francisco Night & Day Challenge.
• terraloco (http://go-terraloco.blogspot.com), Oakland, CA – Rex Winterbottom – Organizes urban and wilderness map adventures

Orienteering Schedule Roundups

• SCONET (http://www.thethinkingsport.com/folder_o_sconet/index.html)
  This dormant West Coast resource links to all West Coast O' clubs from Arizona to British Columbia and Alaska. There are various educational resources for both newcomers and experienced orienteers. The site also explains how to subscribe to various e-mail discussion forums, including BayOnet, SCOnet, the USOFclubnet, and the World Onet. One popular feature is the combined schedule (http://www.thethinkingsport.com/folder_o_sconet/h_sched_all.php) of events in California, plus National Events and Rogaines.
• USOF Pacific Region (http://www.thethinkingsport.com/folder_USOFpacreg/)
  OUSA (formerly USOF) no longer has a regional structure, but this site (http://www.thethinkingsport.com/folder_USOFpacreg/) for the previous Pacific Region (which included Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah) provides some useful links.
• Pacific Northwest (PNW) Orienteering (http://www.pnwo.org/)
  Another dormant site for orienteering events in the Pacific Northwest, including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. Although this site isn't currently maintained, it still provides some useful general information.

Orienteering Around the World

• Orienteering USA (http://orienteeringusa.org) (OUSA) (formerly U.S. Orienteering Federation, USOF)

See the BAOC Schedule page for links to OUSA calendars of events.

The Rules for Orienteering USA Sanctioned Events are available here (HTML) (http://orienteeringusa.org/about/rules/) (also see this page for a PDF file).

Until the end of 2019, OUSA members received the magazine Orienteering North America six times a year. Old issues from 1984–1999 are available online here (http://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/aigx). Annual issues of ONADigital for 2012–2014 are available here (https://orienteeringusa.org/home/orienteering-north-america/). A monthly E-newsletter (http://orienteeringusa.org/home/newsletter/) is still published.

The OUSA ClubNet online forum (mailing list, Google group) is available here (https://groups.google.com/a/orienteeringusa.org/forum/#!forum/clubnet).

Discount Programs:

• Orienteering USA has a discount program (http://orienteeringusa.org/membership/member-discounts/#rental-cars) with Hertz Rent-a-Car (discount code "CDP 1916601"). Anyone (members and non-members) can use this discount at any time, for any travel whatsoever​—​for orienteering and non-orienteering personal use, and on business. In addition to the discount you receive, there's a benefit to Orienteering USA.
• There is also a discount program (http://orienteeringusa.org/membership/member-discounts/#hotels) with the Hilton Hotels family of hotels and motels. (The previous Motel 6 discount program ended in 2012, and the Choice Hotels discount ended in 2015.)

• Orienteering Canada (http://www.orienteering.ca/)
  National federation to the north.

• International Orienteering Federation (http://orienteering.sport) (IOF)
  Lots of information about international events, including all the rules (http://orienteering.sport/orienteering/competition-rules/) and mapping standards (https://orienteering.sport/iof/mapping/) for foot, mountain bike, ski, and trail orienteering. (Also see this page regarding rules, and this page regarding mapping standards.)

• International Rogaining Federation (http://www.rogaining.com/) (IRF)
  Rogaining is the sport of long distance cross-country navigation. The championship is 24 hours in duration but there are several shorter variants. A central base camp usually provides hot meals throughout the event.

• Attackpoint (http://www.attackpoint.org)
  This is a popular (international) site for orienteering participants. It provides a schedule of events (https://www.attackpoint.org/events.jsp) (which can be filtered by format and region), a discussion forum (https://www.attackpoint.org/discussion.jsp), and a lot more. Attackpoint lets athletes keep online training logs.

• WinSplits (http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/)
  This is a popular (international) site for reviewing (and comparing) detailed timing of course results, with "splits" for each leg of the course, including a calculated estimate of the time lost on each leg. The main webpage lists all the events for which results have been uploaded. After the results of a BAOC event have been uploaded, a link to the WinSplits results for that event is included in the event results on the BAOC website.

• Compasses for Different Latitudes (http://www.attackpoint.org/discussionthread.jsp/message_671085)
  Attackpoint (http://www.attackpoint.org) discussion about selecting compasses for other world regions (e.g., South America, Australia/New Zealand).

Miscellaneous Orienteering Sites

• Jan Kocbach's World of O (http://worldofo.com/)
  Large collection of links to orienteering pages and orienteers; extensive calendar of international events.
• Centre for Orienteering History (http://www.orienteering-history.info/)
  A Czech site celebrating O'; includes international results, 1960s-era O' maps, postage stamps celebrating orienteering, and more. You can even download orienteering wallpaper for your computer screen.
• Orienteering Online (http://www.orienteeringonline.net)
  An international orienteering information site in the English language, delivering news, interviews, reports, and curiosities from around the world.
• Trail Orienteering Puzzles
  There once was a website that was announced with this:

"Website dedicated to the promotion of trail orienteering in North America. This blog, which will feature training tips and control walk-throughs, is meant as a training tool to help people learn and improve in the sport. In addition, the site will contain a wide array of information on trail orienteering for everyone from beginners to U.S. Team members to course setters. Anyone is welcome to post comments or create an account to add your own blog posts. Suggestions for how to improve the site are welcome."

That site has disappeared. If you know where it is now located, please tell the . (December 12, 2015)

Outdoor Activities

• California Adventure Racing Association (http://california-ara.com/)
  Promotes adventure racing (races in which teams participate in kayaking, mountain biking, trail running, orienteering, and other disciplines) in California. Information on how to get started, find teammates, and locate events.
• Big Blue Adventure Series (http://www.bigblueadventure.com/)
  Races in which teams and individuals participate in kayaking, mountain biking, trail running, orienteering, and other disciplines.
• NORCAL Adventure Racing Series (http://www.norcal-ar.com/)
  Multi-sport adventure racing series in Northern California that features trail running, biking, paddling, and navigation. Events range from Sprint (4–6 hours) to 24+ hours.
• Bay Area Backcountry (http://www.hknot.com/bab/bab.html)
  Hiking, camping, and other outdoor information about the Bay Area.
• Radio Orienteering (http://www.homingin.com/)
• Geocaching (http://www.geocaching.com/)
  The locations of caches all over the world are shared on this Internet site. GPS users use the location coordinates to find them.

Running Activities

• East Bay Hash House Harriers (http://www.ebh3.com)
  Hashing is running, following a flour path (often involving food and adult beverages).
• Pacific Coast Trail Runs (http://www.pctrailruns.com)
  Runs (which aren't races) in beautiful places. Directed by (former?) BAOC member Wendell Doman.
• TheSchedule.com (http://www.theschedule.com/)
  Comprehensive schedule of running, biking, swimming, ... events.

Other Interesting Links

• Earth's Inconstant Magnetic Field (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/29dec_magneticfield.htm?list952490)
  Our planet's magnetic field is in a constant state of change, say researchers who are beginning to understand how it behaves and why.
• Mapping Resources (http://baoc.org/maps/resources.php)
  Our own site's list of on-line mapping resources.
• MapMyRun (http://mapmyrun.com/), MapMyRide (http://mapmyride.com/), MapMyHike (http://mapmyhike.com/)
  Web sites for putting your favorite runs, rides, hikes into Google maps to determine distance and climb, and to save for future reference. You can also search for routes saved by other people.