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Schedule (2023)

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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.

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Date Event Name,
Location,
Type, and Notes
Event Director
or Contact
Course Setter(s)
Sep. 1 - 30 NAV-X GPS Challenge #5: Sunol Regional Wilderness; Sunol, CA NAV-X Challenge (NAV-X)
Rogaine; 3- or 6-hour Map Trek using the MapRun6 smartphone app or MapRunG Garmin app; get to as many of the checkpoints as you can (dates shown are due to a website limit; actual dates are Sept. 1 through Oct. 31) (Not a BAOC event)
Sep. 29 - Oct. 1 Deschutes Pyroclastic 2-Day; Bend, OR Columbia River Orienteering Club (CROC)
B; Saturday Classic-distance event at Dutchman Flat (upper), Sunday Middle-distance event at Dutchman Flat (lower); OUSA classes with assigned start times (but NOT NREs) (entry details: open until sooner of Sept. 30 or 150 entrees)
Oct. 1 - 31 NAV-X GPS Challenge #6: Cache Creek; Clearlake Oaks, CA NAV-X Challenge (NAV-X)
Rogaine; 3- or 6-hour Map Trek using the MapRun6 smartphone app or MapRunG Garmin app; get to as many of the ~50 check- points as you can (dates shown are due to a website limit; actual dates are Oct. 1 through Nov. 30) (Not a BAOC event)
Oct. 7 - 8 New England Championships; Sturbridge, MA New England Orienteering Club (NEOC)
A; Classic-distance format, 2-day combined-time event. Both days are National Ranking Events sanctioned by OUSA. Wells State Park map, fully updated 2020 (entry deadlines: Sept. 17, Oct. 1)
Oct. 8
(Sun.)
Orangevale Community Park
Orangevale, CA
- 916.220.0224
Gold Country Orienteers (GCO)
Mats Jansson (GCO)
C; Beginner (White & Yellow) & Intermediate (Orange) point-to-point courses with checkpoints that must be visited in a specific order (Not a BAOC event) (pending park approval)
Oct. 14
(Sat.)
Pacifica Find-Your-Way 5K & 10K; Pacifica, CA - 510.681.6181
terraloco (LOCO)
Rex Winterbottom
Discover the quirks & wonders of Pacifica’s parks, views, decor, & history; choose 5k/10k challenge; find up to 30 checkpoints; answer simple multiple-choice question at each; navigate with a custom map. Preregister for lower fees (Not a BAOC event)
Oct. 22
(Sun.)
Browns Valley Open Space Preserve
Vacaville, CA
Rex Winterbottom
B; New map of a “smaller Morgan Territory” with bigger rocks and fewer trees
Oct. 28
(Sat.)
Haunted Hills 5k & 10k
San Carlos, CA
- 510.681.6181
terraloco (LOCO)
Rex Winterbottom
Trick-or-Treating for adults (& families)! Adventure through decorated San Carlos neighborhoods finding awesome displays; answer a multiple-choice question at each checkpoint (~20 on 5k; ~36 on 10k). Preregister for lower fees (Not a BAOC event)
Oct. 29
(Sun.)
NAV-X GPS Challenge #7: Shell Ridge/Diablo Foothills; Walnut Creek, CA NAV-X Challenge (NAV-X)
Rogaine; 2- or 4-hour Map Trek NOT using the MapRun6 smartphone app or MapRunG Garmin app; traditional, in-person, 1-day event; get to as many of the checkpoints as you can (Not a BAOC event)
Nov. 4 - 5 Queen of the Hills 2-day Classic; Newark, DE & Elkton, MD Delaware Valley Orienteering Association (DVOA)
A; Saturday at Iron Hill Park (Newark, DE); Sunday at Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area (Elkton, MD) (entry deadlines: Oct. 1 & 22; Nov. 2 for Recreation courses)
Nov. 5
(Sun.)
Deer Creek Hills Preserve
Rancho Murietta, CA
Gold Country Orienteers (GCO) Nik Weber,
Roy Malone (GCO)
B; Full-on Orienteering event with Beginner to Advanced courses to choose from: White, Yellow, Orange, Brown, Red, and Blue; classic pin punches & punch cards will be used (Not a BAOC event) (pending park approval)
Nov. 11 - 12 Go Wild! Kern Canyon; Lake Isabella, CA - 510.681.6181
terraloco (LOCO)
Rex Winterbottom
5K/10K/2hr/4hr map adventure courses: Explore rolling hills & gentle plateaus above Kern River for rocky knolls, exciting historical landmarks, & views! Teams of 1-5 find up to 20 checkpoints each day. Preregister for lower fees (Not a BAOC event)
Dec. 9
(Sat.)
Noe Valley Find-Your-Way 5K, 10K; San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA
- 510.681.6181
terraloco (LOCO)
Rex Winterbottom
Discover the parks, views, decor, & history of San Francisco’s Noe Valley. Choose 5k or 10k challenge; find up to 30 checkpoints (answer a multiple-choice question at each); use a custom map to navigate. Preregister for lower fees (Not a BAOC event)
Dec. 30
(Sat.)
Folsom Holiday Scramble; Folsom, CA - 916.481.2850
Gold Country Orienteers (GCO)
Dwight Freund (GCO)
A Scramble event, with lots checkpoints spread out around Old Town Folsom, and 90 minutes to find as many as you can in any order (Not a BAOC event) (pending park approval)

Schedule of events in 2024 (http://baoc.org/wiki/Schedule/Current?year=2024)


Notes

Additional notes about the above schedule:

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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:

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 , the BAOC Event 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 can find more events by looking at:

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 Event 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 .