2017 California Orienteering Week (COW)
California Orienteering Week
Date: Mar. 18 - 26, 2017
Location: Southern and Northern California
Organizers: LAOC and BAOC
Type: A/B/T; Seven days of National Ranking Events, U.S. Championships, training events, and a local Sprint/Trail-O event
Foot-O, Ski-O, Trail-O — we've got it all in California! Twelve events in 16 days!
More information will be available closer to the events. Also, see the links to the individual events for more information.
Schedule
Saturday, March 18
Camp Scherman National Meet (http://losangelesorienteering.org/drupal/camp-scherman-national-meet), day 1 (LAOC)
- Camp Scherman, Mountain Center, CA (near Palm Desert, ~110 miles ESE of LAX)
- U.S. Trail-O (PreO (http://www.us.orienteering.org/rules#D2)) Championships¹
- U.S. Relay Championships¹
Sunday, March 19
Camp Scherman National Meet (http://losangelesorienteering.org/drupal/camp-scherman-national-meet), day 2 (LAOC)
- Camp Scherman, Mountain Center, CA (near Palm Desert, ~110 miles ESE of LAX)
- U.S. Trail-O (Temp-O (http://www.us.orienteering.org/rules#D2)) Championships¹
- Middle Distance courses—U.S. National Ranking Event¹
Tuesday, March 21
Training day (http://losangelesorienteering.org/drupal/vasquez-rocks-3) (LAOC)
- Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, Agua Dulce, CA (~40 miles N of LAX)
- Amazing rock formations in a park used by Hollywood to film Western movies
- Controls will be set out and maps made available, but no formal racing
Wednesday, March 22 – Friday, March 24
Informal training days (BAOC)
- Morgan Territory Regional Preserve, Livermore, CA (~35 miles E of San Francisco)
- Venue for the 2016 U.S. Individual Championships
- The map for the Green course at the February 2017 local event is available here (PDF/2.1MB)
- Control locations will be marked by streamers, but no formal racing
Thursday, March 23
Local event: PreO and Sprint (BAOC)
- Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland, CA (~15 miles E of San Francisco)
- PreO (Trail-O) event
- Preregistration required for competitive entries
- National Ranking Event (for competitive entries)
- Recreational (non-competitive) entries allowed
- Sprint course
- One course for all in a redwood forest on a new ISSOM map
- Formal course with staggered start times, results, etc.
- Not a U.S. National Ranking Event
- Starts will be available from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
- Free with PreO preregistration
- You can preregister for this event as part of O in the Oaks 2017 preregistration.
- You can also register at the event for recreational PreO and/or for the Sprint.
Saturday, March 25
O in the Oaks 2017, day 1 (BAOC)
- Pt. Pinole Regional Shoreline, Richmond, CA (~15 miles NNE of San Francisco)
- "Extended" Middle Distance courses (that is, up to 40 controls per course)
- U.S. National Ranking Event¹
Sunday, March 26
O in the Oaks 2017, day 2 (BAOC)
- Briones Regional Park, Martinez, CA (~20 miles NE of San Francisco)
- U.S. Ultra Long Championships¹
- Mass starts
And why not precede COW with this:
Saturday–Sunday, March 11–12
Ski orienteering near Lake Tahoe (http://truckeeorienteering.org/2017/skio/index1.html) presented by the Truckee Orienteering Club (http://truckeeorienteering.org/)
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¹ Sanctioned by OUSA