Orienteering Nova Scotia

Another at home orienteering activity available for free. This one requires a login sign-up. Trail-O is a timed event where you have to match the correct control flag to what’s shown on the map. A great way to tune your map reading and control description skills.

Click on the event link to download the map and answer sheet for the LUNENBURG PHOTO CHALLENGE. This is a "complete in your own time" event on a new map. The map is not perfect (it's created from Open Street Map) but it should be good enough for an informal street-O!

And so it begins: World of O’s route to Christmas provides a daily route choice activity. A great resource to help you fill in your Bing-O!

Time for another spot of Bing-O fun! The winner will earn an orienteering mask sewn by our very own Heather Walker. There are runners up prizes, too. The deadline is December 31. Check the bottom of the page for details.

The Lunenburg Photo-O Score event has been switched to an open-ended score-O that you can complete in your own time (when COVID restrictions allow). The map and photo codes will be posted here and on the ONS website from December 6 onwards. For details click the link below: https://sso.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/4294

Sample Session - Orienteering! Learn to find your way around using a map in this introductory session for all ages led by the Annapolis Valley Orienteering Clu...b. No experience or gear necessary! Cost: Pay what you can Spaces are limited! To register, please call 902-679-2539 or email [email protected]. Participants under the age of 12 must register with an adult.

You asked for some navigation training after feeling rusty at Parkview and we listened! Click the link below for details of a one-day orienteering skills training session on NOVEMBER 22 in Bridgewater facilitated by Jim Blanchard. Pre-registration by November 16 is essential. https://sso.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/4293

The Long Lake self-directed event will be posted for one more week. We’d love for you to try this free event using MapRunF. Please sign-up and print your maps by Sunday Nov 15! See link below for all event info: https://hoc.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/4286

We have a few of the Orienteering Nova Scotia O shirts left over from our last order (modelled here by the Secord family)... 1 Medium (unisex cut) 1 Medium (women's cut) 1 Large 1 XXL... The cost is $42 each. Comment below if you're interested. See more

Amazing - the awesome map and some photos from yesterday’s Halloween Night-O at Noggin’s Corn Maze.

Hall O Ween Results! Here are the results from the Corn Maze event. Thanks to Noggins Corner Farm for hosting (and providing registration shelter!), Pam James for creating the map and picking up controls, and Jim and Lauren Blanchard for assorted and bewitching assistance :-)

Check out The Run In an orienteering podcast out of the UK featuring interviews with elite orienteers. You may recognize Kat’s voice from commentating World Cup events. https://podcasts.apple.com//podcast/the-run-in/id1467201731

A few photos from today's event...

Here’s some O mazing news! Hall O Ween in the Valley . Friday, October 30th. https://avoc.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/4092

This weekend! There's still time to pre-register using the link below...

There is a new self-guided training event in Long Lake Park, Halifax, available now until Nov 15th. Check out all the details here: https://hoc.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/4286

New event just posted for October 25!! This is a regular middle distance forest-O at Park View in Bridgewater, with SI timing. All the details are on the event page. Pre-registration is a MUST. https://sso.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/4277

Did you know that there is a temporary Orienteering Course set up on the grounds of the Haliburton House Museum? Come learn a new (or re-learn from your school... days) activity! Pre-registration is required and can be done in two ways: 1. Online: https://app.bookking.ca/westhan/calendars/courses/index.asp 2. Contact Kathy: 902-790-6976 or [email protected] West Hants Regional Municipality

Fun times today for the Halls - two sprints completed in the Dick James Memorial series. And a quick visit to Odd Books in Wolfville where some top-notch books were on display.

Here is a great orienteering intro video from the UK. They have a few more detailed follow-on videos as well. Check them out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Zc5AVkFis

The Smith’s completed another Dick James Memorial orienteering sprint series event at Haliburton house in Windsor. Four orienteering sprints events in different community locations in the beautiful Annapolis Valley.

We are so excited that Annapolis Valley Orienteering Club is offering this self-timed, 4-event series in honour of Dick James! Open 12 Sept - 31 Oct 2020. See all the details here: https://avoc.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/4245

Orienteering Canada has made some updates to their Management Plan for COVID-19 Risks. The good news: We can use SI timing again for club events. The bad news: We will not be permitted to run provincial championships this year.... But don't worry, we'll still have a local event with courses for all levels! For more details on the management plan visit: http://www.orienteering.ca/resources/covid-19/

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A mistake to number 4 caught on the Maprun app by Kara at today’s training event at Irishman’s - super useful when reviewing where you lost time on a course. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDsSjv1ABxY/

Thanks to Pam for a great socially distanced event today!

Irishman’s is very unique and fun orienteering terrain. Come try this self-start training event Sunday Aug 9th! Reg deadline is August 6th @ 9pm. https://avoc.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/4089

Check out the details for the virtual Canadian Orienteering Banquet. https://sites.google.com/barebones.ca/oc-banquet-auction

Congratulations to our Bing-O winners: Desmond Secord, Evie Hall, Heather Walker and Kara Turner! You’ll be feeling fast and looking spiffy in the woods! Also this Bing-O vision board by Heather! Orienteering in NZ? Yes, please!

Some Breaking News! With MapRunF 5.0.9 you get much better punch notifications sent to your Garmin watch from the app on the phone but, even bigger, MapRunG ha...s been released on the Garmin Connect IQ App store. For the more modern Garmin Watches this integrates your watch into the complete MapRunF environment so you can upload a course to your watch, let it do the punching, and after completing the course (and back with your phone), MapRunF will grab the activity from your Garmin Connect site and upload the results for the event! Details and links to full instructions on our MapRunf Information page https://ottawaoc.ca/index.php/maprun-intro (you do need to be a member and have a login). See more

Today is the last day to submit your Bing-O entry. Here’s looking at you!

Less than a week to get your Bing-O submissions in. They are due by July 12th if you’d like to be in the draw for one of these sweet headbands. Guaranteed to make you 14% faster and 98% more stylish!

There is no award ceremony and dinner this year but we’d like to recognize our award winners again on the eve of the Support for Sport award broadcast. Congratulations and well done Milo, Pam and Kara! #S4SAwards

Some Annapolis Valley orienteering club members testing out RunMap F at Irishman’s Road recreation park. Hope there will be some self directed orienteering this summer. You can download the RunMap F on your IPhone or Android phones for free. Stay safe and Happy orienteering.

How’s your Bing-O going? It’s a beaute day to get outside. Complete as many full lines as you can by July 12th! #orienteerNShome

Checking out a few map corrections in the woods yesterday in preparation for the Bluenose Classic in October (fingers crossed we are back to regular orienteering events by then).

A newsletter will be emailed to everyone on the Orienteering NS mailing list this week and includes this Bing-O activity on page 2. Enter to win a World Orienteering Day headband -- details on the form. Good luck and have some fun with it!

We have a Return to Play plan for orienteering activities! https://mailchi.mp//orienteering-return-to-play-plan-27765

Of all the changes that happened due to Covid-19, what are the parts that you want to keep? Share your hopes/wishes using the hashtag #RecreationMatters.

Missing orienteering? So is Evie...

A great topic for anyone interested in sprint orienteering. We have lots of Sprint events in NS!

It's World Orienteering Day this week! Click on the link below to register by Tuesday to take part in some virtual races and challenges.

We’ve got our next virtual event up and running until Tuesday evening!! Give it a try.

We had 21 participants complete the Mahone Bay Virtual O course last weekend. Thanks to everyone that took part! Here are the results and a view of one of the control locations.

A reminder that this event is happening -- enjoy some virtual orienteering from the comfort of your home! Find some famous Mahone Bay scarecrows among other things...

Congratulations to Nova Scotia’s Pam James and Margie James who were inducted into the Orienteering Canada Hall of Fame! For their bios and more details please visit http://www.orienteering.ca/about/halloffame/

There's a new Virtual O course up for the next week -- this one takes you around Mahone Bay. See the link for details.

We had 23 participants in our virtual sprint this weekend! Thanks to all who participated. We’ve decided to keep it posted for two more days, so tell your friends to give it a try! Results are posted on hoc.whyjustrun.ca/events/view/4172 The Start gave a lot of people trouble, so don’t go the...

We can’t orienteer together outside at the moment, but today Cheryl from Annapolis Valley Orienteering Club put on a virtual Sprint Laws event for us on Zoom! Here are some photos of the Halls taking part. We are all missing orienteering so this was a great way to practise some skills at home.

Here’s a great craft and activity. Keep it is-O-lated!

Stay the blazes home this Easter weekend and test your orienteering skills online.

Some armchair orienteering -- spot the O flags.

Love orienteering and love puzzles? Then you'll love these! Download a new one each day from the Scottish Orienteering Association website.

Postponement of the 2020 Canadian Rockies Orienteering Festival until 2021 With all the uncertainty surrounding Covid-19 and in line with other sporting events,... the 2020 Canadian Rockies Orienteering Festival (CROF) including the 2020 Canadian Orienteering Championships (COCs), Western Canadian Orienteering Championships (WCOCs), Crowsnest Barebones events and the Sass Peepre National Training Junior Camp scheduled to take place in July 3-12, 2020 have been postponed until 2021. This will be a disappointment for many, as it is to the organizers, but we feel at this time, it is the only responsible decision to make. We do not take this decision lightly, as 2020 will be the first time that the Canadian Orienteering Championships will not be held since the first COCs in 1968. The Canadian Rockies Orienteering Festival will be rescheduled for the summer of 2021. Please see the full statement with more details at: https://crof2020.com/