Orienteering training maps – create your own COVID-bubble event

Greetings North West members

While we wait for vaccination levels to climb towards 90% and the resumption of organised orienteering events, we have some suggestions for orienteering within your bubble.

Check out the newly updated Resources/Coaching tab on the NWOC website home page for links to Permanent Courses, orienteering maps and MapRun6 events.

Enjoy doing a MapRun6 event, with a printed map but using your mobile phone GPS abilities. In this case, there are no physical, permanent markers in the terrain.

The MapRun6 events include an easy yellow level course at Sanders Reserve, near Paremoremo.  There is also an option for a short MTB orienteering course – bikers must stay on the tracks. The MTBO course can also be run as a standard foot orienteering course (offering more route choice than the yellow course) – you can run off-track.

Auckland Orienteering Club has published several MapRun6 Night orienteering Street events.

Everything you need to know about MapRun can be found on our website – give it a go!

We have also created a training map for red level orienteers in Riverhead Forest – access from Robinson Road, close to Coatesville. This area was mapped by Cameron de LÍsle and first used in May 2021. There are 18 control sites marked with small red/white markers and orange tape. Download the map and use the marked control sites for control picking or make up your own orienteering course. Note that these control sites are not suitable for inexperienced orienteers – further details can be found here.
                                                         

Permanent courses can be found at a number of Auckland regional parks.  Try a permanent orienteering course, with a printed map and physical, permanent markers in the terrain. – you will find links to the maps on our website.

Please obey all Covid regulations!

Sadly, and unsurprisingly, the Tūāraki North Region Orienteering Champs, originally scheduled for Labour Weekend, have now been postponed with a provisional new date of 12 & 13 February 2022.

Until we can meet in the forest again,

Kia kaha, Lisa Mead
President NWOC
                                                       

 
 Geoff Mead at one of the marked control sites in Riverhead Forest