Winter League #3 is Up Next – Join us April 3rd!

Winter League #3  is this Saturday April 3rd at South Seattle College.   Join us for a fun sprint style race at a venue COC hasn’t visited in a few years. Public registration will open at 7pm tonight (3/29) and close at 9pm on Wednesday (3/31). Rental e-punches will be available for this meet, but you must pre-pay online for them. Be sure and check out the event page for important parking information and other need to knows.

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Ultimate Orienteer Series Announces Events

COC’s Ultimate Orienteer Series has officially released their season schedule. This year’s series will be three weekend double-headers over the mountains in Eastern Washington. Ultimate Orienteer events are COC’s most challenging courses but are open to everyone. All events will include Intermediate and Beginner courses in addition to Advanced courses. Read about the UO events here. Registration is open here. Here’s the just released schedule: 4/10 – #1, Bishop’s Land (Classic) 4/11 – #2, Quincy Lakes (Classic) 5/15 – #3, Frenchman Coulee (Middle) 5/16 – #4, Frenchman […]

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Get Ready for Winter League #2 at Lynndale Park

Winter League is excited to visit an old friend in Lynndale Park this Saturday, March 20th. Public registration will open at 7pm tonight (3/15) and close at 9pm on Wednesday (3/17). Rental e-punches will be available for this meet, but you must pre-pay online for them. Be sure and check out the event page for important parking information and other need to knows.

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WVS Wraps Up with Live Event This Weekend

Looking for an orienteering challenge? The Winter Virtual Series Live Finale is This Saturday, March 13th at Lord Hill Regional Park in Snohomish. Brand new courses, brand new areas on the map. Lots of flattish open runnable forest totally off trails, where creating one’s own handrails using contours, vegetation boundaries and other imaginary life savers will be the norm.  More information on the event can be found here. Sign up now! Registration closes this Thursday, March 11th at 9pm. Register here.

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Live Events Return This Weekend at Bridle Trails State Park

COC officially returns to live events this Saturday, March 6th at Bridle Trails State Park. Registration is open now through March 3rd at 9pm. Limited space is available and there will be no day of meet registration, so get your spot reserved now.  For more information about the mini-Winter League Series and to learn about the rules and safety procedures we will have in place visit the series and the event pages.

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Mini-Winter League Season Announced

COC is excited to announce a mini-Winter League Series starting March 6th and continuing through the end of April (pending permits). This marks COC’s long awaited return to a full series of live events!  This series will be limited to 200 participants, with the students of WIOL being allowed to sign up first. You can read all about the mini-series, get exact dates and venues, and check out the new rules and COVID precautions on the Winter League home page. […]

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Get on the COC club email list

E-newsletter

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 […]

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Just get out there!

We may not be having our usual in-person events right now (we’re working on it) but that doesn’t mean you can’t get out on a map. This winter, we’re offering the Winter Virtual Series, a 4-event season culminating in a possible in-person event in March. Using the UsynligO smart phone app, you can earn points by completing a course. Even if you don’t have a smart phone, you can still download and print a course map and run one or […]

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Bog Slog at Lord Hill – virtual and tagged courses

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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“Virtual” Orienteering Courses

The Tahoma Orienteering School Team together with COC is putting on a series of virtual events on the app UsynligO (see the earlier News post about UsynligO here). This is a 5-week series of events, each with four levels of courses, White (Elementary, Beginner), Yellow (Middle School, Advanced Beginner), Orange (Junior Varsity, Intermediate), and Red (Varsity, Short Advanced). There is also a very short Warmup or Model course for each event so you can try the app before heading out […]

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