NEW DATE: the meet scheduled for May 7 will be held on April 30.

This is the first orienteering meet of our 2011 season. Everyone is welcome, NMO members and non-members, adults and kids, experts and beginners. NMO members please renew your membership.

Carpool from Albuquerque: New Mexico Adventure Racing Club is organizing a carpool from the Lowe's/Target parking lot at Paseo del Norte and I-25 at 8:30am. Contact Jeff Hunker via meet director Tami Martinson.

Links

Location: Albuquerque, Cherry Hills Library, meeting room. Note new end time: 5pm (the library closes at 6pm).

Orienteering course design workshop. Intended for advanced orienteers, especially course vetters, who want to move up to designing courses, and for orienteering course designers who want to improve their skills and the quality of their courses.

Hello orienteers!

November 20 classic O meet

Meet registrar Una Smith has received advance registrations from over 100 competitors for our meet tomorrow (http://www.nm-orienteers.org/node/161). Answers to frequently asked questions have been added to our web page about the Cienega Canyon map (http://www.nm-orienteers.org/node/126): more driving directions, where to eat and get gas, safety message.

Why

Are you an able navigator in the great outdoors, on and off trails? Do you feel safe using a map to go somewhere new to you? Can you read a topographic map with ease? Do you get much use out of your compass? If your answer to any of these questions is "no", orienteering with New Mexico Orienteers can help you turn "no" into "yes".

Learn field navigation skills from expert coaches, then apply your new skills on one or more sport orienteering courses designed specifically to help you practice these skills.

What

November 20 O meet

Our next meet, November 20 (a Saturday) on our Doc Long/Cienega Canyon map, is going to be a large meet for us. Several JROTC groups are coming, possibly also a handful of Scout troops (BSA and GSA) and some other youth groups, in addition to our own members. Register in advance to save precious meet minutes and get a pre-printed course map. Multiple White, multiple Yellow, Orange, Green, and Red courses have already been set.

Boy Scouts of America conferences at the Philmont Training Center include a weeklong course on Orienteering and Scouting. From the 2010 schedule: This course offers instruction in basic orienteering skills, planning and leading orienteering events across all Programs - from Cub Scouts to Second and First Class ranks and Orienteering Merit Badge to Venturing. Time will be equally divided between classroom and outdoor activities.

North Texas Orienteering Association is holding this orienteering meet on a new map in Fort Worth. Over 300 orienteers have registered in advance. Get the details here.

El Paso Independent School District orienteering meet, hosted by Bowie High School JROTC. For details contact El Paso ISD JROTC.

This meet is re-scheduled from October 3.

El Paso Independent School District orienteering meet, hosted by Chapin High School JROTC. For details contact El Paso ISD JROTC.