Orienteering: A Great, Outdoors Scandi Adventure for ALL!
Welcome back to the rest of the 2024 orienteering season in Columbus, Ohio, fellow Scandinavians! Get out your calendars! Central Ohio Orienteers (COO) will have events on Oct 26 (Alley Park in Lancaster); Nov 10 (Great Seal State Park, a bit further away in Chillicothe), and in December (date still in the works, Three Creeks Metro Park).
COO's website is here: https://www.centralohioorienteers.org/
Always a good idea to check there for last minute info, like verifying the start locations in the parks.
If anyone would like to make a long day around orienteering, check out Cincinnati (OCIN), Miami Valley (MVOC), and Cleveland (NEOOC) events, too. - They’re just further away. There will be something happening with orienteering almost every weekend in Ohio. Autumn might just be the best season for the woods!
Brain Benefits: Time magazine - and other news outlets - reported on a study specifically done of orienteering and how good it is for our brains. It makes us use so much of our brain to figure out where we are and how to get to the next place we want to go. It is actually good to "get lost" and it is good to get out of the normal routine. Orienteering offers some risk of getting lost while we figure out a pathway, and for sure it gets us out into nature, outside of our daily routines.
2024 Events Schedule
- October 26 (Saturday) - Alley Park, Lancaster
- November 23 (Saturday) - Great Seal of Ohio State Park, Chillicothe
- December TBD date (Sat or Sun) - Three Creeks Metro Park, Groveport
Event Logistics
Look for conspicuous signage at events, typically a large white/orange square at the park entrance and another near the reserved shelter/park section where the club starts and finishes.
Start your walk or run between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and details are available on the COO website or Facebook pages. If possible, let's meet at 11 a.m. at the start.
Contact
Annie Almstedt, our Scandi-Orienteering Coordinator
ohioalmstedts@att.net
614-975-5949
Registration and Donations:
Register for events with the Scandinavian Club to help us gauge member interest.
Inform Annie of your attendance, at the event.
No charge for Metro Park events, but COO (Central Ohio Orienteers) accepts donations.
