Add all the events to your calendar at this link: EWOC Event Calendar
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Sunday
February 26
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Manito Park
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Register/start
1-3 pm
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Meet
near the shelter at 18th and Grand for the first event of 2012. We're
hoping for a great year and lots of club growth. Come be a part of it.
John Beck will design.
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Sunday
March 18
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Poker O
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Register
at 1 pm
Start at 1:30 pm
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What is
Poker O, you ask? Here's the setup: There's a different card at each of
a bunch of control locations. You have to visit the controls to see
what cards are where. Your poker hand is determined by the 5 controls
you choose to punch before time expires.
Gonzaga University's the place and John Harbuck's the man.
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Sunday
April 1
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Weird O at Mirabeau
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Register/start
1-3 pm
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Don't
come to Weird O for plain ol' straight-up orienteering. Somehow,
someway, there's always some little twist at the first EWOC event in
April every year. Enjoy April Fools Day with us at Mirabeau Point in
Spokane Valley. Meet just north of the Valley YMCA building.
Tracy Schoenleber hosts.
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Saturday
April 28
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Camp Sekani
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Register/start
10-noon
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This
is our club's newest map, created for a national competition last
summer. No one's quite got this place committed to memory so we're all
in the same boat. Come give it a try. John Beck will design the
course.
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Sunday
June 3
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Goat and Kid at Fishtrap
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Register/start
1-3 pm
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Our
designer, John Harbuck, knows the Fishtrap map very well. You'll know
it a little better too after doing one of these longer-than-usual
courses. If you've only seen this area from the highway at 70 mph, it's
time to pull over and take a look around.
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Saturday
June 9
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Lincoln Park
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Register/start
10-noon
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The
annual Lincoln Park event in the Spring is a great time to see a
variety of wildflowers. This is an interesting place — combining a
grassy city park with treed areas, tall cliffs, basalt scabland, and a
large pond — all hidden away on Spokane's South Hill.
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Sunday
June 24
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Experience Riverside State Park
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9 am -
3 pm
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The
Riverside State Park Foundation will be hosting various activities
around the park from 9-3. EWOC will be there to offer visitors a little
bit of instruction and a chance to do a beginners course for free. Let
us know ahead of time if you would like to help us provide that
opportunity. On the day
of the event you'll find us under the shelter, at the far end of the
footbridge near the bowl and pitcher.
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Sunday
June 24
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Riverside Club Event
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Register/start
1 - 3:30 pm
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Come
to Riverside for the Park Foundation events (see above) in the morning,
and compete on our full courses in the afternoon. From 1-3 we'll have
intermediate and advanced courses for anyone interested in the real
deal. (Our regular fees apply for these.)
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Saturday
July 28
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Liberty Lake Score-O
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Register
at 10:00
Start at 10:30
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We've
picked the day and we'll get the permits. Want to design the course?
Anyway, one way or another we'll be orienteering at Liberty Lake County
Park. We're planning on it being a score meet. Find all the controls
you can, in any order you wish. Just get back to the starting point
before the time's up.
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National Orienteering Day
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3 Events on
September 22nd
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Intro To Orienteering Class
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9:30
- 11 am
must pre-register
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Register
through Spokane Valley Parks and Recreation Department for this class
which will introduce people to the sport of orienteering. By 11 you'll
know the basics of finding your way around using a map and compass.
Then you'll get a chance to solidify your new knowledge by
participating in the real orienteering event at Mirabeau Park listed
below. The classroom is in Centerplace at 2426 N Discovery PL in
Spokane Valley.
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Orienteering in Mirabeau Park (club event open to
anyone)
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Register/start
11-noon
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From
11-noon we'll register and start people on a regular club orienteering
event. Students in the Intro class (above) and the Advanced class
(below) will already be registered for it.
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Orienteering Skills Class
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1 -
3:30 pm
must pre-register
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Whether
you participated in the Intro class this morning or you already
understood the basics, this class will give you a chance to synthesize
your map-reading and compass skills. This is a rare opportunity to
learn some of the tricks that will make you a faster, more confident
participant in orienteering events. Register through Spokane Valley
Parks and Recreation. Meet at Centerplace.
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Saturday
October 6
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Camp Seven Mile, Riverside State Park
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Register/start
10-noon
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Again,
we have a date and a place — just need a designer. This area makes for
good 'ol traditional orienteering in the real woods but not far from
town.
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Saturday
October 20
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Vampire O
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Register
at 6 pm
Start at 6:30 pm
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Every
year, just before Halloween, Manito Park becomes a bit spookier. Bring
the family, wear your costumes, and have a ball trying to find all the
controls you can in an hour. At night. While trying to avoid the
vampires.
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Saturday
November 3
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Business Meeting and Motala
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Meeting
at 10 am
Motala at 11 am |
We'll
meet in Jepson Hall at Gonzaga University for less than an hour to talk
over ideas, rough-out the 2013 schedule, and elect new oficers.
Attending is the best way to avoid getting elected. At about 11:00
we'll go do a mass-start motala event. A motala is a fun way to make
the most of a rather small map area — like Gonzaga University's campus
— by designing the course that goes in loops. Come give it a try.
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