Online MTBO Skills Sessions Continue
The second online ACT MTBO skills development workshop will take place via ZOOM on Monday 4 May. This time we will continue working on route choice theory and practice. We…
The second online ACT MTBO skills development workshop will take place via ZOOM on Monday 4 May. This time we will continue working on route choice theory and practice. We…
Although regular orienteering is on hold for the foreseeable future, there are still numerous activities that will allow you to enjoy orienteering and maintain your skills from the comfort of…
Around 9.00 pm on April 8, the ACT orienteering community lost one of the early stalwarts of the development of the sport in Canberra. David Hogg has prepared this tribute…
In January, while Canberra was suffocating in smoke, Bushflyer Paul de Jongh was enjoying the (relatively) clean air of southern China at the Beidou Orienteering Competition. Here he recounts the…
To comply with mandatory COVID-19 social distancing measures, and for the health and safety of participants, volunteers and the community, the following events are cancelled: All Street-O, MTBO and Saturday…
The OACT Board is pleased to announce the following appointments to the 2020 Blue Lightning Training Squad. Congratulations to: Ken Mansell - ManagerMark Gregson, Tara Melhuish, Rohan Hyslop - Coaching…
OACT will be putting in place measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In some cases this will see the cancellation of events. An up-to-date list of all cancelled events…
Due to the COVID-19 cancellation of all non-essential activities, the face-to-face MTBO Coaching Workshops on 28th March, 23 April, and 14 May have been cancelled. Instead the MTBO Coaching workshop…
The first of five MTBO Coaching sessions assembled 10 participants at Gossan Hill on Thursday, ranging from beginners to mature and experienced riders. The focus of the first MTBO session…
After years of trying, Shannon Jones finally achieved her objective of winning one of the Orienteering ACT’s age/gender handicap series when she wrapped up the 2019-20 Runners Shop Twilight Series…
The first SC-ORE event of the Autumn 2020 series at St Monica's Primary, tomorrow 5 March, is cancelled.Unfortunately heavy ongoing rainfall has made the grounds unsuitable for SC-ORE. We are…
Orienteering pioneer and champion competitor for two decades, Kathy Saw, succumbed to cancer on Sunday morning. Kathy was also a multiple rogaining champion, after she changed sports in the mid-1990s.…