March 17, 2026 by Ing Uhlin
Come join us for the next event in the Ultimate Orienteer Series. In a freestyle event, you have to punch all controls on your course but you decide in which order you want to visit them. Similar to a score-O, but different in that there are no points and no time limit (until course closure). More info on the event page. Pre-registration only, here, before the end of Wednesday March 25.
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March 12, 2026 by Michelle Kastner
Last month Orienteering USA announced the 2026 OUSA National Team. Eight COC members were among them! Congratulations to Jessica Colleran, Mathew Rogers, and Ben Conley for being named to the Performance Team. Congrats to Ben Cooper, Jackson Rupe, Danny Buchholz, Sophie Howes, and Greta Leonard for making it on the Junior Team. Cascade OC is so proud! You can read more here.
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March 1, 2026 by Ing Uhlin
It is time for the 2026 Ultimate Orienteer Season to begin and as tradition holds, we start with Night-O. This year we will be at Lynnwood Golf Course on March 7. More info on the event page. Pre-registration only, here, before the end of Wednesday March 4. If you missed the Winter Wednesday training events, you definitely want to do this event.
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February 16, 2026 by Michelle Kastner
We hope to see you at our WL Celebration Weekend Events, on Saturday, February 28th and Sunday, March 1st. WL Champs is a stand-alone event on Feb 28th at Camp River Ranch in Carnation. Everyone is welcome. No invitation is necessary. After racing, bring your own food/snacks and join us for a fun community gathering and awards ceremony in the lodge at Camp River Ranch. More info on WL Champs can be found here. WL Relay is a casual, fun, and very inexpensive ($3 […]
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January 29, 2026 by Ing Uhlin
Join us for the seventh and final regular season event of the Winter League series that will take place at Green River College in Auburn on February 7th (but wait, then there is the Championship and Celebration Relay, so WL isn’t over quite yet). The GRC venue has a sprint map with a combination of college campus and forest, with a scale of 1:4,000 and contour intervals of 5 m. More info is posted on the event page here. Pre-registration […]
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January 25, 2026 by Mike Schuh
The next COC event is an evening training event on a new map at Lake Wilderness Golf Course in Maple Valley. This event features night orienteering with an opportunity to try different orienteering skills. The Winter Wednesday events are low key and can be leisurely (just finish by 8:30 PM) or intense. At the last Winter Wednesday we tried a “five minute challenge” – who can maintain an average pace of 5 minutes per kilometer? This is the pace of top orienteers at some […]
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January 14, 2026 by Michelle Kastner
Winter League 6 is heading to beautiful Whidbey Island for a race at Putney Woods Park on Saturday, January 24th. Join us for another fun day of racing. More info is here. Register here.
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January 12, 2026 by Ing Uhlin
The first Winter Wednesday event this season will be this Wednesday, January 14th, at Lynnwood Golf Course: https://cascadeoc.org/event/2025-26-winter-wednesday-2-lynnwood-golf-course/ Registration for this week’s event closes at 11:59 PM Tuesday evening. Currently, the weather for Wednesday evening is “mostly cloudy”. The Winter Wednesday events are low key training opportunities – at night – with an emphasis on compass skills. Instruction and general coaching will be available. Why at night? Well, it’s more fun and provides challenging training. Also, if we’re going to […]
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December 31, 2025 by Ing Uhlin
Join us at Summit Trail / Rock Creek Natural Area on Saturday, January 10th for WL #5. More info here. Register here (pre-registration is required and closes Wednesday Jan. 7). As the Winter League progresses into its second half of the season, the difficulty level is increased a bit as we move into more forested terrain from city parks. Remember to read the course notes before the event. Please carpool if you can. Also, Winter Wednesday evening training event on […]
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December 15, 2025 by Ing Uhlin
Parking in lot E18 just north of the Alaska Air Arena. Mandatory crossing of Montlake Blvd at the Hec-Ed Bridge to the staging area by Bill and Melinda Gates Center for CSE. All areas West of Burke-Gilman trail is Competition Area and Out Of Bounds (OOB). Join us on Saturday Dec 20 for the fourth event in the 2025-26 Winter League Season. More info on the event page here. Register here. Registration will close Wednesday night, Dec 17 11:59 PM. […]
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