UNO - Up North Orienteers

We are a dynamic and friendly orienteering club, noted for welcoming newcomers, for our families with children of various ages, and for our top-level national competitors. Our objective is to foster and promote orienteering as a recreational and competitive sport.

We offer a full schedule of orienteering in New Hampshire. Our event schedule is dominated by local meets (designed for beginners, casual orienteers, and competitive types). Please check for additional events in the orienteering web sites from our neighboring states:

MA,RI,CT:	NEOC	New England Orienteering Club
West CT	WCOC	Western Connecticut Orienteering Club
Boston:	CSU	Cambridge Sports Union
Vermont:	GMOC	Green Mountain Orienteering Club
USA:	USOF	US Orienteering Federation

The Next Events:

Sunday, Feb 21: Pawtuckaway Ski-O Cancelled due to lack of sufficient snow. Sorry!

March (Tentative) Ski-O Windblown, New Ipswitch, NH

April 11 Mine Falls - Stellos Stadium, Nashua, NH
Courses: W, Y, O, Sprint (2 loops). Registration and Starts 10 – 1.
Directions: From Route 3 exit 5 take Route 111 West. Go Past St Philip’s Church on left. Take a right on Riverside Street (traffic light). Take first left (sign for Stellos Stadium). Bear left so as not to enter the Nashua highway department. Stellos Stadium is straight ahead.
Meet Director: Pete Bundschuh 603-465-3142

April 17 College Woods, Durham, NH

Are you a hiker, adventure racer, hunter, or outdoor lover who should know how to use a map and compass to know where you are, to navigate to where you want to go, or to help you survive in an emergency situation? Up North Orienteers will hold a map and compass skills workshop on Saturday, April 17, 2010 to teach you these skills, and give you an opportunity to practice them in the woods. The event will be held rain or shine. From 10:00 am to noon, you can progress through a series of stations to learn and practice the following skills:

• reading the map for scale, declination, climb, and features
• using your compass to navigate to features on a map
• using your compass and surroundings to return to a point
• ways to determine distance traveled using the scale on the map
• how to navigate around impassable obstacles
• seeing the attack point to easily find a particular spot

From 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, you can practice the same skills on a longer orienteering course in the woods. All participants must be off the course by 3:30 pm. The cost is only $5.00 for the map and compass workshop and the practice course in the woods. You will be asked to register and sign a waiver form. Note that there are no restroom facilities at the site. Bring your own compass, or you can borrow one on site.

Directions to the workshop: From Route 4, exit at Route 155A (UNH - Whittemore Center). Turn towards Durham and travel 1.2 miles on that road to the UNH Campus. At the traffic light take a right onto College Road and travel 0.3 miles. Turn right onto South Drive, go under the RR overpass, and make an immediate right onto Waterworks Road. Take your first left into the parking at the Gregg Hall lot. If that lot is full, go back to Waterworks Road, turn left onto Colovos Road, and right into the parking for Chase and Ritzman Labs. Registration is in front of Gregg Hall.

April 25, Nottingcook Forest, Bow, NH

Sunday, May 2, Whitaker Woods, North Conway, NH
Registration and starts: 11 am - 1 pm. Courses: String, White, Yellow, Orange, Red. New map 1:7500 by Tony Federer.
Directions: Northbound on Rt 16 in North Conway Village, turn right into parking immediately after second light and just before railroad crossing. Southbound on Rt 16 entering North Conway village, turn left into parking just after railroad crossing and before first stop light.
Event Director: Tony Federer 603-356-6769

May 1-2, West Point A-meet, West Point, NY

May 8-9, WCOC Spring Thing, between New Haven and Danbury, CT

Saturday, May 15, Sheiling Forest, Peterborough, NH

May 23, Billygoat Run hosted by NEOC at Mt. Tom, Holyoke, MA

June 26, Ahern State Park, Laconia, NH
Event Director: Jim Arsenault 603-528-1727

Sept. 11-12, UNO's ANNUAL CAMPING WEEKEND, Pawtuckaway State Park, Nottingham, NH

Any Time, Tucker Brook Permanent Course, Milford, NH
See Tucker Brook, Milford, NH O-Course