Guidelines for Volunteers
The information on this page should be of particular usefulness to Event Directors, Course Setters, and all other event volunteers. Without the many and varied skills and efforts provided by volunteers, this club's events couldn't happen!
- USOF entry form (http://www.us.orienteering.org/Forms/standard.pdf)
Standard entry form for "A" meets.
- Volunteer Instructions (http://baoc.org/volunteer/dir_guide/volunteer.php)
Everything you need to know to handle starts, finishes, and results at BAOC events.
- Beginner Clinic Outline (http://baoc.org/volunteer/dir_guide/beginner.txt)
Everything you should consider covering at BAOC events. (This is a "txt" file for compact printing.)
- Electronic Punching Guide (http://baoc.org/volunteer/e_punch/)
Everything you need to know in order to deal with electronic punching at an event.
- Event Director and Course Setter's Guide (http://baoc.org/volunteer/dir_guide/)
The complete BAOC guide for creating a quality orienteering event. Includes a checklist, course specs, and forms.
- Coursesetting Guidelines (http://baoc.org/volunteer/dir_guide/course_set.php)
Guidelines for setting courses at BAOC events.
- How to Use Condes (http://baoc.org/pdfs/condes_instruct.pdf)
A step-by-step guide to using Condes to design courses, by Evan Custer.
- Measuring distance and climb (http://orienteer.com/technical/measuring.htm)
A course setter's guide, by Joe Scarborough.
- Setting Up a Start-O (http://baoc.org/pdfs/starto_checklist.pdf)
Werner Haag has provided both a description (http:/pdfs/starto_info.pdf) of this children's course and a guide (http:/pdfs/starto_checklist.pdf) to setting one up.
- The Virtual Binder (http://home.comcast.net/~rshannonhouse/)
Electronic version of the USOF binder, containing everything from the Rules of Competition to A-meet guidelines to funding policies.
- Archive of BAOC's Event Schedules (http://baoc.org/sched/archive.php)
An archive of old event announcements, which is useful for finding out what was done in the past at the park where you may be putting on a new event.
- Introduction To Orienteering Presentation (http://baoc.org/pdfs/intro_present_2004-01-08.pdf)
Are you giving a presentation about Orienteering? Ian Tidswell has prepared an excellent set of slides for introducing people to Orienteering.
Please note that some links are to PDF files, which are viewable with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html) program.