Schedule (2022)
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Unless otherwise noted, all of the club's events take place within the San Francisco Bay Area, are on Sundays, go on rain or shine, and offer courses for beginners. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions for information about event schedules, costs, and what to bring.
Click on the event date to go to the event webpage/website. For the latest information for any event, please check the event webpage/website closer to the event, or (for local events) contact the Event Director. There are additional details about the event schedule below.
Note that there is a Google calendar of "local" events below the list of events. You can subscribe to that calendar to have the events shown on your personal Google calendar.
If an event you are interested in no longer appears on the schedule, please check the Archive of event announcements or the Results.
To see only BAOC events, change the drop-down box below from All Clubs to BAOC, and click on Reload. Similarly, you can select a different year, and you can restrict the displayed list to only a certain type of event.
Date | Event Name, Location, Type, and Notes |
Event Director or Contact |
Course Setter(s) |
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May. 1 - 31 | Las Trampas Regional Wilderness San Ramon, CA |
NAV-X Challenge (NAV-X) | |
Rogaine; 2h/4h do-it-yourself map-trekking courses using the MapRun6 (smartphone) and MapRunG (Garmin) apps (dates shown are due to website limit; actual dates are May 1 through June 30) | |||
May. 1 - 31 | Sonoma Valley; Glen Ellen, CA | NAV-X Challenge (NAV-X) | |
Rogaine; 2h/4h do-it-yourself map-trekking courses using the MapRun6 (smartphone) and MapRunG (Garmin) apps (dates shown are due to website limit; actual dates are April 1 through May 31) | |||
May. 13 - 29 | World Masters Games 2021; Kansai, Japan | ||
A; CANCELED? Includes Sprint events (May 20-22) and Middle & Long forest events (May 24-28) (entry deadline: April 10 [orienteering]); public races will be offered — Postponed from 2021 | |||
May. 21 (Sat.) |
Pacific Heights Find-Your-Way 5k & Scramble San Francisco, CA |
- 510.681.6181 terraloco (LOCO) |
Rex Winterbottom |
Discover the quirks and wonders of Pacific Heights, its parks, views, decor, and history. Choose a 5k where you plan the route, or a 90-minute Scramble finding up to 36 checkpoints. Preregister by May 15 or 19 for lower fees. (Not a BAOC event) | |||
May. 22 (Sun.) |
Great Brook Farm NRE; Carlisle, MA | New England Orienteering Club (NEOC) | |
A; One-day NRE with all seven courses; pre-registration by May 18 is requested, but is not required | |||
May. 25 - 29 | Swiss 5 Days; Neuchâtel, Switzerland | ||
A; Forest & urban Sprints, Middle, and 2 Long events (entry has closed) — Rescheduled from 2020 & from 2021 | |||
Jun. 4 - 12 | 2022 Pacific Northwest Orienteering Festival; Missoula, MT & Spokane, WA | Cascade Orienteering Club (COC) | |
A; Nine days of orienteering in Montana and Eastern Washington, including two NREs & the 2022 Western States Championships; Sprint, Middle, Classic, & Goat events (entry deadline: June 2) | |||
Jun. 4 - 6 | Lubrecht 3-Day, 2022 Western States Championships; Missoula, MT | Grizzly Orienteering (GrizO) | |
A; Three-day competition weekend including a 1-day NRE, the 2022 Western States Championships, and a campus Sprint; Saturday Middle NRE, Sunday Classic, Monday Sprint; part of the 2022 Pacific Northwest Orienteering Festival (entry deadline: June 2) | |||
Jun. 5 (Sun.) |
Joaquin Miller Park Oakland, CA |
- 510.407.1876 | Tom de Vre, Theo Verhoeven |
C; This will be the first event of the 2022 Summer Series. Beginners are welcome! (pending park approval) | |||
Jun. 11 (Sat.) |
Fishtrap Lake NRE; Sprague, WA | Cascade Orienteering Club (COC) | |
A; Middle-distance event that is part of the 2022 Pacific Northwest Orienteering Festival (entry deadline: June 9) | |||
Jun. 25 - 30 | WOC: 2022 World Orienteering Championships; Kolding, Denmark | ||
A; Annual world championships — rescheduled from 2020 (also see "WOC Tour 2022") | |||
Jun. 25 - 30 | WOC Tour 2022; Kolding, Denmark | ||
A; "Public" races associated with the 2022 World Orienteering Championships; 3 Sprint races and 3 forest races (entry deadline: June 1) | |||
Jun. 26 (Sun.) |
Mills College Oakland, CA |
- 510.681.6181 | Needed (You?) |
C; This is a changed venue for the second event of the 2022 Summer Series. Beginners are welcome! (pending park approval) | |||
Jul. 1 - 10 | Canadian Rockies Orienteering Festival 2022 (CROF2022); Alberta & British Columbia, Canada | Foothills Wanderers Orienteering Club (FWOC) | |
A; Western Canadian Orienteering Championships (July 1-3) and Canadian Orienteering Championships (July 7-10), each with Sprint, Middle, & Long events; two Barebones events July 4-5; training camp July 6-7 (entry deadlines: May 31, June 25) | |||
Jul. 1 - 31 | Donner Summit; Soda Springs, CA | NAV-X Challenge (NAV-X) | |
Rogaine; 4h/8h do-it-yourself map-trekking courses using the MapRun6 (smartphone) and MapRunG (Garmin) apps (dates shown are due to website limit; actual dates are July 1 through Sept. 30) | |||
Jul. 2 - 7 | 5 Days of Italy; Madonna di Campiglio, Italy | ||
A; Model, Sprint, Long, & 3 Middle events (entry deadlines: May 31, June 15) | |||
Jul. 2 (Sat.) |
University of California Berkeley, CA |
- 510.681.6181 | Matej Šebo |
C; This will be the third event of the 2022 Summer Series. Beginners are welcome! (pending park approval) | |||
Jul. 3 - 8 | 54th Kainuu Orienteering Week; Puolanka, Finland | ||
A; Four events over six days; competition categories and open courses; quotes from website: "3,500 to 10,000 orienteers annually", "one of the most popular sporting events in Finland" (entry deadlines: May 31, June 6) | |||
Jul. 5 - 10 | Texas Junior Orienteering Camp 2022; Bridgeport, TX | North Texas Orienteering Association (NTOA) | |
Training; Six-day residence orienteering camp for talented 13-19 year-old junior orienteers in the U.S. Training available at the Fast Start (Yellow), Intermediate (Orange), and Advanced (Green) levels. (entry deadline: May 13) | |||
Jul. 7 - 17 | The World Games 2022; Birmingham, AL | Vulcan Orienteering Club (VOC) | |
A; Sprint, Middle, and Sprint Relay events for selected Elites July 15-17; spectator races might(?) be available; you could be a volunteer (details TBD) — rescheduled from 2020 | |||
Jul. 8 - 16 | WMOC: World Masters Orienteering Championships 2022; Vieste, Italy | ||
A; Annual masters championships with Sprint, Middle, & Long events (entry deadlines: April 30, May 15); WMOC Tour: five "open" events on the same terrain (entry deadline: May 1) | |||
Jul. 10 - 16 | JWOC: Junior World Orienteering Champs; Aguiar da Beira, Portugal | ||
A; Annual international championship event for juniors, and multi-day public (JWOC TOUR, tour.jwoc2022.pt) event with 2 Sprint, 3 Middle, & 1 Long races (Tour entry deadline: June 19) — postponed from 2021 | |||
Jul. 13 - 20 | WMTBOC & JWMTBOC: World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships 2022; Falun, Sweden | ||
A; Annual adult (WMTBOC) and juniors (JWMTBOC) mountain bike championships; there will be 5 "spectator" events in conjunction with the championships (deadlines: May 14 [team size], July 4 [team names] & 14, July 8 ["spectator" races]) | |||
Jul. 19 - 23 | WTOC: World Trail-O Champs 2021; Jelenia Góra, Poland | ||
A; TrailO Relay, TempO Qualifications and Final, two PreO events (entry deadlines: team size May 20, names July 10) — rescheduled from 2021 | |||
Jul. 23 (Sat.) |
Diablo Valley College Pleasant Hill, CA |
Needed (You?) | |
C; This will be the fourth event of the 2022 Summer Series. Beginners are welcome! (pending park approval) | |||
Jul. 24 - 30 | O'Ringen; Uppsala, Sweden | ||
A; Annual, "world's largest" orienteering event (entry deadlines: June 1, July 24[?]) — rescheduled from 2020 & 2021 | |||
Aug. 14 (Sun.) |
Vasona Lake County Park Los Gatos, CA |
- 415.456.8118 | Taylor Pospisil |
C; This will be the fifth event of the 2022 Summer Series. Beginners are welcome! (pending park approval) | |||
Aug. 15 - 21 | WUOC: World University Orienteering Championships; Biel/Bienne, Switzerland | ||
A; Sprint, Long, Sprint Relay, Middle, & Relay events for selected team members, who must be attending or recent graduate of a university | |||
Aug. 28 (Sun.) |
Bedwell Bayfront Park Menlo Park, CA |
- 650.281.5280 | Matthias Kohler |
C; This will be the final event of the 2022 Summer Series. Beginners are welcome! | |||
Sep. 1 - 30 | Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve Antioch, CA |
NAV-X Challenge (NAV-X) | |
Rogaine; 3h/6h do-it-yourself map-trekking courses using the MapRun6 (smartphone) and MapRunG (Garmin) apps (dates shown are due to website limit; actual dates are Sept. 1 through Oct. 31) | |||
Sep. 10 (Sat.) |
Pawtuckaway 1-Day NRE; Raymond, NH | Up North Orienteers (UNO) | |
A; Saturday NRE as part of multi-event annual camping weekend (details TBD) | |||
Sep. 14 - 18 | World Masters MTB Orienteering Championships 2022; Targovishte, Bulgaria | ||
A; Four races: Mass Start, Middle, Long, & Sprint (entry deadline: Aug. 31) | |||
Oct. 8 - 9 | 2022 Masters Nationals; Union, CT | New England Orienteering Club (NEOC) | |
A; 2-Day Classic; sanctioning approved (details TBD) | |||
Oct. 13 - 16 | South American Orienteering Championships; Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil | ||
A; Elite, Youth, Junior, Master, & Open competitions in 3 countries: Sprint in Paraguay, Long in Argentina, Middle in Brazil (entry deadlines: May 5, July 5, Sept. 5). NOTE: U.S. citizens need a visa to enter Paraguay, but not for Argentina or Brazil. | |||
Nov. 11 - 13 | Possible U.S. Nationals; Los Angeles, CA | Los Angeles Orienteering Club (LAOC) | |
A; Likely bid for 2022 Nationals — Sprint, Middle, Long (details TBD) | |||
Nov. 13 (Sun.) |
Briones Regional Park Lafayette, CA |
NAV-X Challenge (NAV-X) | |
Rogaine; 2h/4h "in person" map-trekking courses |
Schedule of events in 2023 (http://baoc.org/wiki/Schedule/Current?year=2023)
Notes
Additional notes about the above schedule:
- Events in bold are BAOC events. The schedule includes regular orienteering events, and other events of potential interest, such as training sessions, BAOC Board meetings, regional events, National Events, and notable international events. You can use the drop-down boxes at the top of the page to limit the events that are listed and to look at future years.
- B- and C-meets are "regular" BAOC events. B-meets generally provide the standard seven courses (White, Yellow, Orange, Brown, Green, Red, Blue). C-meets offer a subset of these courses, or another flavor of orienteering, such as Score-O.
- A-meets are National Ranking Events (NRE) for competitive orienteers. They offer courses in all the OUSA competitive classes (https://orienteeringusa.org/about/rules/) (see section A.39) and are counted in the national rankings (https://orienteeringusa.org/events/rankings/). Note, however, that these events also have courses for recreational orienteers and do welcome beginners, and sometimes an event will consist of a combination of NRE and non-NRE events.
- All BAOC events offer beginners clinics and courses unless otherwise noted in the event details.
- Junior events are specifically for youth under 21 years of age (but are often open to everyone).
- Training sessions are often suitable for beginners, but sometimes are intermediate and up—check the event details.
Google Calendar of Events
The Google calendar below shows announced orienteering events. It should contain BAOC, GCO (http://www.goldcountryorienteers.org), Nav-X (http://www.navxchallenge.com/), and terraloco (http://go-terraloco.blogspot.com/#!/p/about-terraloco_09.html) events, as well as selected other California events like Mt Pinos and Anza Borrego. However, please do not rely on this calendar for accuracy. The schedules on each club's website (including our own) will have the most accurate and up-to-date information.
If you have your own Google calendar, you can subscribe to this calendar, and see its events displayed on your personal Google calendar. To subscribe, click on the "+ Google Calendar" button at the bottom of the calendar.
Notes:
- This calendar was suggested by Shura Kretchetov, and was developed by Shura and Alex Finch. (February 14, 2011)
- If the calendar is not displayed, or if no events are shown in the calendar, that might mean Google is having a problem—please try checking later. Failure to display might also be caused by a browser setting or extension. Try using a different browser, and/or opening a new "private" browser window (e.g., an Incognito window in the Chrome browser).
Working Calendars of Upcoming Events
The Event Coordinators' working schedule is available here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JG_uFZgck4lyAvmna2OC0SjCBXJ0Unv0NjaGXUiUttk). (You might notice that there are proposed events that need Event Directors and Course Setters. Without them, those events will not happen!)
Please send event suggestions (and offers to direct an event and/or set courses) to [emailByName: unknown member name 'Events Coordinator'][emailByPosition: unknown position 'Events Coordinator'], the BAOC Events Coordinator (who leads the Regional Event Coordinators).
Another working calendar of events, named the CA OR WA NV AZ Adventure Calendar is available here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1X8gwfoPMxAqupZ7_2gx26xz8aGekARdST4ef_G20HKE/edit?usp=sharing). In addition to BAOC and other regional events, it lists major national and international events.
More Schedule Information
You may find more events by looking at the Orienteering USA (OUSA) event calendar (https://orienteeringusa.org/events/calendar/), the OUSA planning calendar (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18zubcKLGL_gyw3lVNDp6sfiEkSYX5wPB_qwQLmdnvDg/edit#gid=0), the OUSA Rogaine calendar (http://orienteeringusa.org/events/calendar/rogaining-calendar/), the websites of other orienteering clubs, and the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) event calendar (https://eventor.orienteering.org/Events).
If you are looking for an announcement for a past BAOC event, check out the archive of old event schedules (http://baoc.org/sched/archive.php).
The best driving directions are usually within the event announcements themselves, but we also have a page containing driving directions (http://baoc.org/maps/directions.php) to most of the parks.
If you'd like to orienteer more often, volunteering to help put on events is a sure way to do it. Please contact the Events Coordinator, [emailByName: unknown member name 'Events Coordinator'][emailByPosition: unknown position 'Events Coordinator'], regarding event directing and course setting.
Note: If you have additional information concerning any of these events, know of an event that should be added, or see something that's incorrect, please contact the .