Southern Highlands Orienteers (SHOO)’s SOS series brings great sprint-style events to local schools. Because the schools are fenced and courses are broken into a series of short legs, the SOS series is fantastic for kids to come and grow in confidence, and learn independent orienteering skills. Also, kids from the hosting school run free, so round up your friends!

Assembly location and time
The assembly is at Camden South Public School, Camden. There will be red and white orienteering directional signs out to guide you into the assembly. Just park nearby and come to the registration desk.

Event registration is from 9:30am. Event briefing (particularly important for new orienteers) is at 10.00am). You can then start your run any time between 10:00am and 11:00am (it's a good idea to take a bit of time to plan using your map).

Courses and cost
There are a range of courses on offer to suit both adults and kids. Kids from 5 upwards can participate, with simple courses who are beginners, through to more advanced “racing” courses for those who have orienteered before, or want a challenge.

Costs: TBA

Any questions? Email us or message us on Facebook.

Southern Highlands Orienteers (SHOO) is proud to bring orienteering to the suburbs and parks of the Macarthur. Summer Saturdays are a great way to learn orienteering close to home, or to pack some fast-paced competitive orienteering into your weekend. Oh, and for this event, residents of Camden, Camden South and Elderslie can participate for free.

One of our traditional Summer Saturdays maps, Camden Riverside is both scenic and (surprisingly) challenging with some bush sections along the river.

Assembly location and time
The assembly is at Chellaston Reserve, Chellaston Road, Camden. There will be red and white orienteering directional signs out to guide you into the assembly. Just park nearby and come to the registration desk.

Event registration is from 9:00am. Event briefing (particularly important for new orienteers) is at 9.30am). You can then start your run any time between 9:30am and 10:30am (it's a good idea to take a bit of time to plan using your map).

Courses and cost
We have the following courses available:

• Short line course (approx 2km), good for kids and beginners

• “Score” course: You have 45 minutes to get to as many checkpoints as you can - the most points in the shortest time wins!

Costs:

• Adults: $12 for an Orienteering NSW member, $14 for a non-member

• Family and group concessions available.

DM us if you have any questions, or see the full event flyer.

Any questions? Email us or message us on Facebook.

Southern Highlands Orienteers (SHOO) is proud to bring orienteering to the suburbs and parks of the Macarthur. Summer Saturdays are a great way to learn orienteering close to home, or to pack some fast-paced competitive orienteering into your weekend. Oh, and for this event, residents of Camden, Grassmere, Cobbity and Ellis Lane can participate for free.

Get in the history of Camden with a run that takes in the Equestrian Centre, in the surrounds of the Town Farm. This is mainly cross-country running - not many streets in this one!

Assembly location and time
The assembly is at Onslow Oval, Cawdor Road, Camden. There will be red and white orienteering directional signs out to guide you into the assembly. Just park nearby and come to the registration desk.

Event registration is from 9:00am. Event briefing (particularly important for new orienteers) is at 9.30am). You can then start your run any time between 9:30am and 10:30am (it's a good idea to take a bit of time to plan using your map).

Courses and cost
We have the following courses available:

• Short line course (approx 2km), good for kids and beginners

• “Score” course: You have 45 minutes to get to as many checkpoints as you can - the most points in the shortest time wins!

Costs:

• Adults: $12 for an Orienteering NSW member, $14 for a non-member

• Family and group concessions available.

DM us if you have any questions, or see the full event flyer.

Any questions? Email us or message us on Facebook.

Southern Highlands Orienteers (SHOO) is proud to bring orienteering to the suburbs and parks of the Macarthur. Summer Saturdays are a great way to learn orienteering close to home, or to pack some fast-paced competitive orienteering into your weekend. Oh, and for this event, residents of Harrington Park can participate for free.

Harrington Park is a great map which features fast (but complicated) street running, pockets of bushland, and nice parks and reserves.

Assembly location and time
The assembly is at Harrington Park Reserve, Waterfront Way, just off The Northern Road. There will be red and white orienteering directional signs out to guide you into the assembly. Just park nearby and come to the registration desk.

Event registration is from 9:00am. Event briefing (particularly important for new orienteers) is at 9.30am). You can then start your run any time between 9:30am and 10:30am (it's a good idea to take a bit of time to plan using your map).

Courses and cost
We have the following courses available:

• Short line course (approx 2km), good for kids and beginners

• “Score” course: You have 45 minutes to get to as many checkpoints as you can - the most points in the shortest time wins!

Costs:

• Adults: $12 for an Orienteering NSW member, $14 for a non-member

• Family and group concessions available.

DM us if you have any questions, or see the full event flyer.

Any questions? Email us or message us on Facebook.

Southern Highlands Orienteers (SHOO) is proud to bring orienteering to the suburbs and parks of the Macarthur. Summer Saturdays are a great way to learn orienteering close to home, or to pack some fast-paced competitive orienteering into your weekend. Oh, and for this event, residents of Currans Hill and Mount Annan can participate for free.

Currans Hill was a new map in 2019, and features some interesting little sections of bush, and some nice challenges in the streets (how about that creek last year?).

Assembly location and time
The assembly is at Jack Nash Reserve, off Currans Hill Drive. There will be red and white orienteering directional signs out to guide you into the assembly. Just park nearby and come to the registration desk.

Event registration is from 9:00am. Event briefing (particularly important for new orienteers) is at 9.30am). You can then start your run any time between 9:30am and 10:30am (it's a good idea to plan using your map).

Courses and cost
We have the following courses available:

• Short line course (approx 2km), good for kids and beginners

• “Score” course: You have 45 minutes to get to as many checkpoints as you can - the most points in the shortest time wins!

Costs:

• Adults: $12 for an Orienteering NSW member, $14 for a non-member

• Family and group concessions available.

DM us if you have any questions, or see the full event flyer.

Any questions? Email us or message us on Facebook.

Southern Highlands Orienteers (SHOO) is proud to bring orienteering to the suburbs and parks of the Macarthur. Summer Saturdays are a great way to learn orienteering close to home, or to pack some fast-paced competitive orienteering into your weekend. Oh, and for this event, residents of Macarthur Heights and Macarthur Gardens can participate for free.

We open our Summer Saturdays on a new map - right in the heart of things at WSU Campbelltown.

Assembly location and time
The assembly is at Main Ridge Park on University Drive. There will be red and white orienteering directional signs out to guide you into the assembly. Just park nearby and come to the registration desk.

Event registration is from 8:00am. Event briefing (particularly important for new orienteers) is at 8.30am). You can start your run any time between 8:30am and 10:30am (it's a good idea to plan using your map).

Courses and cost
We have the following courses available:

• Short line course (approx 2km), good for kids and beginners

• “Score” course: You have 45 minutes to get to as many checkpoints as you can - the most points in the shortest time wins!

Costs:

• Adults: $12 for an Orienteering NSW member, $14 for a non-member

• Family and group concessions available.

DM us if you have any questions, or see the full event flyer.

Any questions? Email us or message us on Facebook.

Christmas is whipping around again, and it's time for us to celebrate another year of orienteering effort and success that far outweighs our Club's size.

To celebrate we hold an annual Christmas BBQ with our Club presentations/awards.

All members are welcome to come along - just bring nibbles, a salad or a sweet to share and your own meat, bread and drink. Please let Sue know which you will be bringing to share.

Please RSVP via email or Facebook so that we know who's coming along and what you will be bringing to share.

SHOO Orienteering is glad to continue a proud tradition of bushland orienteering in the beautiful Macarthur and Southern Highlands regions of NSW.

The Highlands Forest Series aims to give new and experienced orienteers a fun and challenging bushland navigation experience.

Boxvale Tramway is a great bush map. Just north of Mittagong, it has a mix of creeks, open forest, rock formations, tracks and some dense scrub.

Beginners and learners will stick mainly to tracks to develop their skills and have fun, while we’ll throw old hands into technical bushland orienteering in some of our area’s most beautiful spots.

We have a Kids Club
We're also holding a kid's club/development program from 10am to allow the kids to have some fun with bush orienteering. Parents can hang around and help out/supervise, or head out on their own orienteering adventure.

Assembly location and time
The assembly is at Boxvale Picnic area off Boxvale Road. There will be red and white orienteering directional signs out on the Old Hume Highway to guide you into the assembly, but after you pass over the freeway immediately turn right into Boxvale Road for about 100m then left onto an unsealed road for about 120m to the picnic area with limited parking available. Note, please park along Boxvale road if the picnic area is full and then walk along the unsealed road.

Event registration is from 10:30am. You can start any time between 11:00am and 12:00pm (it's a good idea to plan using your map).

Courses and cost
We have the following courses available:

• Very Easy

• Easy

• Moderate

• Short Hard

• Long Hard

The very easy and easy are short courses suitable for kids (accompanied by parents) which makes a nice challenge and learning opportunity. You only pay for one person if you go together, so it can also be very cheap to do group/family orienteering.

Cost: $14 for an adult, $12 for a junior (or $12 adult, $10 junior for ONSW members). Family and group concessions available.

DM us if you have any questions, or see the full event flyer.

Any questions? Email us or message us on Facebook.

SHOO Orienteering is glad to continue a proud tradition of bushland orienteering in the beautiful Macarthur and Southern Highlands regions of NSW.

The Highlands Forest Series aims to give new and experienced orienteers a fun and challenging bushland navigation experience.

Appin is a great mix of river vegetation alongside the upper Georges River, open bushland, runnable mountain bike trails and sandstone shelves and rock formations.

Beginners and learners will stick mainly to tracks to develop their skills and have fun, while we’ll throw old hands into technical bushland orienteering in some of our area’s most beautiful spots.

We have a Kids Club
We're also holding a kid's club/development program to allow the kids to have some fun with bush orienteering. Parents can hang around and help out/supervise, or head out on their own orienteering adventure. This week we’ll be teaching kids about contours.

Assembly location and time
Assembly off Illawarra Street Appin. From Appin, head east along Appin Rd. Turn left on the last street as you head out of town (before the Georges River). From Bulli, turn Right after crossing the Georges River. There will be red and white orienteering directional signs out at on Appin Road to guide you into the assembly. There are NO TOILETS at the assembly. Please use the toilets in Appin Park (off Appin Road).

Event registration is from 10:30am. You can start any time between 11:00am and 12:00pm (it's a good idea to plan using your map!).

Courses and cost
We also have a short course suitable for kids (accompanied by parents) which makes a nice challenge and learning opportunity. You only pay for one person if you go together, so it can also be very cheap to do group/family orienteering.

Cost: $13 for an adult (or $10 for ONSW members), kids $8. Family and group concessions available.

DM us if you have any questions!

Any questions? Email us or message us on Facebook.

SHOO Orienteering is glad to continue a proud tradition of bushland orienteering in the beautiful Macarthur and Southern Highlands regions of NSW.

The Highlands Forest Series aims to give new and experienced orienteers a fun and challenging bushland navigation experience.

William Howe Regional Park is a great mix of open grassland, ridge, runnable trails, single track and open bushland. It’s nice and close to Camden, Campbelltown and the M31.

Beginners and learners will stick mainly to tracks to develop their skills and have fun, while we’ll throw old hands into technical bushland orienteering in some of our area’s most beautiful spots.

We have a Kids Club
We're also holding a kid's club/development program to allow the kids to have some fun with bush orienteering. Parents can hang around and help out/supervise, or head out on their own orienteering adventure.

Assembly location and time
The assembly is at the carkpark off Mary Howe Place, Mount Annan/Narellan Vale. Unfortunately there aren’t any facilities here, so use the McDonalds at Mount Annan shops (off Welling Drive) or Spring Farm on the way in. There will be red and white orienteering directional signs out at Welling Drive to guide you into the assembly.

Event registration is from 10:30am. You can start any time between 11:00am and 12:00pm (it's a good idea to plan using your map!).

Courses and cost
We also have a short course suitable for kids (accompanied by parents) which makes a nice challenge and learning opportunity. You only pay for one person if you go together, so it can also be very cheap to do group/family orienteering.

Cost: $13 for an adult (or $10 for ONSW members), kids $8. Family and group concessions available.

DM us if you have any questions!

Any questions? Email us or message us on Facebook.

SHOO Orienteering is glad to continue a proud tradition of bushland orienteering in the beautiful Macarthur and Southern Highlands regions of NSW.

The Highlands Forest Series aims to give new and experienced orienteers a fun and challenging bushland navigation experience.

Soapy Flat is great orienteering country, set in Jellore State Forest. There's great flat open scrub, creeks, climbs, and volcanic protrusion of Mount Jellore towers over the area.

Beginners and learners will stick mainly to tracks to develop their skills and have fun, while we’ll throw old hands into technical bushland orienteering in some of our area’s most beautiful spots.

We have a Kids Club
We're also holding a kid's club/development program to allow the kids to have some fun with bush orienteering. Parents can hang around and help out/supervise, or head out on their own orienteering adventure.

Assembly location and time
The assembly is at Soapy Flat Road, off Wombeyan Caves Road, west of Mittagong. There will be red and white orienteering directional signs out from Wombeyan Caves Road to guide to into the assembly.

Event registration is from 10:30am. You can start any time between 11:00am and 12:00pm (it's a good idea to plan using your map!).

Courses and cost
We also have a short course suitable for kids (accompanied by parents) which makes a nice challenge and learning opportunity. You only pay for one person if you go together, so it can also be very cheap to do group/family orienteering.

Cost: $13 for an adult (or $10 for ONSW members), kids $8. Family and group concessions available.

DM us if you have any questions!

Photo credit for the epic photo of Mt Jellore goes to Jonathan Berry, check him out on Flickr!

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