February 27, 2024 by Ing Uhlin
The Ultimate Orienteer Series starts this Saturday March 2 with Night-O at Hamlin Park. Charge up your headlamps and flashlights – The park looks very different in the dark! More information about the event here. Pre-registration only, register here until Thursday night at 9:00 PM. And sign up for a start time on Signup Genius, also closing on Thursday night at 9:00 PM.
UncategorizedAugust 30, 2022 by Ing Uhlin
The registration is open here and the event page is posted for the next event in the Choose Your Adventure series – Corn Maze! The Choose Your Adventure series is designed to be extra fun, social, and friendly for beginners, yet interesting for seasoned veterans. At Choose Your Adventure events, everyone gets the same map with checkpoints marked all over it. There will be a mass start and a map exchange. Each map will have 12 controls. You find as many checkpoints […]
UncategorizedMay 21, 2022 by Ing Uhlin
Join us at Fishtrap Lake on June 11-12 for the end of the 2022 Ultimate Orienteer Series. Fishtrap Lake has a unique scabland terrain, where the vistas are expansive but details are plentiful. There are few trails in this area, so you’ll appreciate the plethora of contour and rock details as you traverse this beautiful desert area. June is a great time of year for wildflowers here, so you might want to take a moment to enjoy them. The Saturday […]
UncategorizedApril 17, 2022 by Ing Uhlin
Team up with yourself for Ultimate Orienteer Series #3, an Individual Relay at Ft. Steilacoom Park. Depending on your course, you’ll do 2 or 3 legs, picking up a different map each time through the exchange area. The format is Motala, an individual relay with the legs run in different order and the legs are without forking. More info on the event page (https://cascadeoc.org/event/2022-ultimate-orienteer-3-ft-steilacoom-motala/). Registration closes on Wednesday night at 9:00 PM (https://register.cascadeoc.org/). We also need several more volunteers so please […]
UncategorizedMarch 14, 2022 by Ing Uhlin
The ordering is now open for Cascade OC shirts and hoodie in red. These are all tech shirts except the hoodie. The ladies short sleeve shirt is a slightly different product, that sport tech shirt is not available currently in women’s red. This order closes at noon on March 26th. You place the order directly with customink.com and the shirts/hoodie is shipped to your address. These shirts cannot be ordered and paid with volunteer points. This is also a fundraiser for COC. Note […]
UncategorizedMarch 13, 2022 by Ing Uhlin
The courses are now posted on UsynligO so you can try out the fun and challenging courses designed by Keely Kinsman and Anique Johnson. Did you miss the Night-O and want to run a course? Did you run at Night-O but got lost and want to try again? Or just try a harder course? Do you want to do a course but prefer to orienteer in daylight and actually see where you are going? Go to UsynligO.no (https://usynligo.no/) and scroll […]
UncategorizedMarch 7, 2022 by Ing Uhlin
Join us for the Night-O this Saturday at Hamlin Park. Registration will close Wednesday night, 3/9 at 9:00 PM. Online pre-registration only, no registration at the event. We will use assigned start times. Select your start time here.
UncategorizedDecember 14, 2021 by Ing Uhlin
We appreciate your interest. If you want to get on a waitlist, please email WIOLregistrar@gmail.com, with your first and second choices for courses.
UncategorizedJanuary 31, 2021 by Ing Uhlin
Did you know Cascade OC has a group email list? It is a “Discussion group for the orienteering community of western Washington state, USA.” But it is also a way for anybody on the list to communicate with other club members or other members of the list, and a way to get information out quickly about upcoming events, changes, or other critical information. This can be especially useful now when the newsletter has gone on a hiatus (hopefully temporarily). For […]
UncategorizedDecember 28, 2020 by Ing Uhlin
Did you miss the Bog Slog event at Lord Hill? Or do you want to do the course again? Maybe find a better route to the control you missed on? The three courses are posted as a “virtual event” on COC’s event page from where you can get PDFs of the maps with the courses. (Note that the legend and control description are files there too). The event is also on the UsynligO orienteering app (and its website https://usynligo.no/ ) from where […]
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