Schedule (2008)
All of the club's events take place within the San Francisco Bay Area, are on Sundays, go on rain or shine, and offer courses for beginners, unless otherwise noted. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions for more details about the time of day, costs, and what to bring.
For the latest information for any event, please check this web site closer to the event, or contact the Event Director. There are additional details about the event schedule below.
If an event you are interested in no longer appears on the schedule, please check the Archive of event announcements or the Results.
| Date | Event Name, Location, Type, and Notes |
Event Director or Contact |
Course Setter(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 11 (Sat.) |
Terraloco Training Event Briones Regional Park, Martinez, CA |
 - 510.681.6181 |
Rex Winterbottom |
| 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the Alhambra entrance to the park | |||
| Oct. 12 (Sun.) |
Briones Regional Park Martinez, CA |
- 925.934.6567 |
Alan Houser |
| B; Regular 7-course BAOC event in conjunction with the Scout-O Championships | |||
| Oct. 12 (Sun.) |
Scout-O Championships Briones Regional Park, Martinez, CA |
- 925.934.6567 |
Alan Houser |
| B; 16th annual Scout-O Championships for all scout levels | |||
| Oct. 19 (Sun.) |
Calero County Park San Jose, CA |
- 408.996.8749 |
Shura Kretchetov, Alex Finch |
| B; Standard seven courses | |||
| Oct. 19 (Sun.) |
DVOA Club Long-O Championships | Delaware Valley Orienteering Association (DVOA) | |
| A; Valley Forge National Historical Park, Mt. Joy, PA | |||
| Oct. 25 (Sat.) |
Joaquin Miller Park Oakland, CA |
- 510.681.6181 |
Bruce Wolfe, Jay Hann |
| C; FREE day of orienteering, the kickoff of our 2nd BAOC COOL season, and a celebration of the BAOC 30th anniversary | |||
| Oct. 25 - 26 | NEOC Heart and Troll Revival, Mt Tom State Reservation, MA | New England Orienteering Club (NEOC) | |
| A; 2-day classic USOF "A" event | |||
| Oct. 25 - 26 | 2-day Orienteering Fiesta, Los Alamos, NM | New Mexico Orienteers (NMO) | |
| B; Mini-ROGAINE on Saturday (2-hour & 4-hour options), potluck dinner at the Opsahl's house Saturday night (please RSVP), Sprint on Sunday (long and short options). PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. | |||
| Oct. 26 (Sun.) |
Rossmoor Bar Sacramento, CA |
- 916.769.7381 Gold Country Orienteers (GCO) |
Dwight Freund |
| C; White, Yellow, Orange, and advanced courses | |||
| Oct. 31 (Fri.) |
Crocker Highlands Neighborhood Halloween-O Oakland Hills, Oakland, CA |
- 510.681.6181 |
Rex Winterbottom |
| Evening Line-O course amid Halloween decorations and trick-or-treat action | |||
| Nov. 2 (Sun.) |
Las Trampas Regional Wilderness San Ramon, CA |
- 925.831.6136 |
Mark Blair |
| B; Standard White, Yellow, and Orange courses; a "creative twist" for the advanced courses; pending park approval | |||
| Nov. 9 (Sun.) |
Raid the Hammer, Hamilton, Ontario | Golden Horseshoe Orienteering Club (GHO) | |
| "The absolute toughest half marathon and gnarliest 10k in Ontario" | |||
| Nov. 14 - 16 | O in the Oaks '08 Joseph D. Grant County Park, San Jose, CA |
- 408.354.1686 |
Francois Leonard, Kent Ohlund, Dan Greene |
| A; Full-featured "A" meet, including U.S. Trail Orienteering Championships | |||
| Dec. 7 (Sun.) |
Morgan Territory Regional Preserve Livermore, CA |
- 415.948.5593, - 510.604.2688 |
Evan Custer |
| B; Standard "B" event, including the 2008 BAOC Club Championships; pending park approval | |||
| Dec. 9 (Tue.) |
BAOC Board Meeting Burgess Recreation Center, Menlo Park, CA |
- 650.321.9713 |
|
| Quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors -- 7:00-10:00 PM; pizza will be available at 6:30 -- All club members are welcome | |||
| Dec. 13 - 14 | Bon Tempe Reservoir Fairfax, CA |
- 415.747.2768 |
Bill Papendick |
| C; Annual Volunteer Appreciation Event; LIMITED ATTENDANCE; RESERVATIONS REQUIRED; pending park approval | |||
| Dec. 14 (Sun.) |
Mississippi Bar Sacramento, CA |
- 916.922.8671 Gold Country Orienteers (GCO) |
Stew Hintz (GCO) |
| C; White, Yellow, Orange, and advanced courses; pending park approval | |||
Schedule of events in 2009 (http://baoc.org/wiki/Schedule/Current?year=2009)
Notes
Additional notes about the above schedule:
- Events in bold are regular BAOC orienteering events. The schedule also includes other events of potential interest, such as training sessions, board meetings, national A-meets, and regional events.
- B and C meets are regular BAOC events. B meets provide the full seven courses (White, Yellow, Orange, Brown, Green, Red, Blue). C meets offer a subset of these courses or another flavor of orienteering, such as Score-O.
- A-meets are regional or national events for competitive orienteers. They offer courses in all competitive classes and are counted in the national rankings. These meets also have courses for recreational orienteers.
- All events (A, B, C) offer beginners clinics and courses unless otherwise noted.
- Practice sessions are often suitable for beginners, but sometimes are intermediate and up; check the event details.
More Schedule Information
You may find more events by looking at the Pacific Region ranking series (http://www.geocities.com/usofpacreg/rankingfaq.html), the SConet Combined Schedule (http://www.geocities.com/o_laoc/la_sched_all.html), the USOF calendar (http://ourworld.cs.com/usofmeets/), the USOF working calendar (http://mapsurfer.com/sanct/maincal.map), the USOF championships calendar (http://mapsurfer.com/sanct/champcal.map), or the pages of other orienteering clubs (http://baoc.org/links/western.php).
If you are looking for a past event announcement, check out the archive of old event schedules (http://baoc.org/sched/archive.php).
The best driving directions are usually within the event announcements themselves, but we also have a page containing driving directions (http://baoc.org/maps/directions.php) to all of the parks.
If you'd like to orienteer more often, volunteering to help put on these events is a sure way to do it. Please contact the Events Coordinator, . If you have additional information concerning any of these events, please send it to the Webmaster, .