California Orienteering Week (COW) 2017

Date: Mar 18 - 26, 2017 (9 days)

BAOC

Location: Southern & Northern California; Southern & Northern California

Directors: Dennis Wildfogel (408.568.6740)

Type: A; National Ranking Event (NRE). Offers courses in all the OUSA competitive classes (see section A.39) and are counted in the national rankings. Note, however, that these events also have courses for recreational orienteers and do welcome beginners, and sometimes an event will consist of a combination of NRE and non-NRE events.

Seven days of National Ranking Events, U.S. Championships, training events, and a local Sprint/Trail-O event; see "Camp Scherman National Meet" and "O in the Oaks 2017" events for more information


2017 California Orienteering Week (COW)

California Orienteering Week

Date: Mar. 18 - 26, 2017
Location: Southern and Northern California
Organizers: LAOC and BAOC
Type: A/B/T; Seven days of National Ranking Events, U.S. Championships, training events, and a local Sprint/Trail-O event

Foot-O, Ski-O, Trail-O — we've got it all in California! Twelve events in 16 days!

More information will be available closer to the events. Also, see the links to the individual events for more information.

Schedule

Saturday, March 18

Camp Scherman National Meet, day 1 (LAOC)

  • Camp Scherman, Mountain Center, CA (near Palm Desert, ~110 miles ESE of LAX)
  • U.S. Trail-O (PreO) Championships¹
  • U.S. Relay Championships¹

Sunday, March 19

Camp Scherman National Meet, day 2 (LAOC)

  • Camp Scherman, Mountain Center, CA (near Palm Desert, ~110 miles ESE of LAX)
  • U.S. Trail-O (Temp-O) Championships¹
  • Middle Distance courses​—​U.S. National Ranking Event¹

Tuesday, March 21

Training day (LAOC)

  • Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, Agua Dulce, CA (~40 miles N of LAX)
  • Amazing rock formations in a park used by Hollywood to film Western movies
  • Controls will be set out and maps made available, but no formal racing

Wednesday, March 22 – Friday, March 24

Informal training days (BAOC)

Thursday, March 23

Local event: PreO and Sprint (BAOC)

  • Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland, CA (~15 miles E of San Francisco)
  • PreO (Trail-O) event
    • Preregistration required for competitive entries
    • National Ranking Event (for competitive entries)
    • Recreational (non-competitive) entries allowed
  • Sprint course
    • One course for all in a redwood forest on a new ISSOM map
    • Formal course with staggered start times, results, etc.
    • Not a U.S. National Ranking Event
    • Starts will be available from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
    • Free with PreO preregistration
  • You can preregister for this event as part of O in the Oaks 2017 preregistration.
  • You can also register at the event for recreational PreO and/or for the Sprint.

Saturday, March 25

O in the Oaks 2017, day 1 (BAOC)

  • Pt. Pinole Regional Shoreline, Richmond, CA (~15 miles NNE of San Francisco)
  • "Extended" Middle Distance courses (that is, up to 40 controls per course)
  • U.S. National Ranking Event¹

Sunday, March 26

O in the Oaks 2017, day 2 (BAOC)

  • Briones Regional Park, Martinez, CA (~20 miles NE of San Francisco)
  • U.S. Ultra Long Championships¹
  • Mass starts

And why not precede COW with this:

Saturday–Sunday, March 11–12

Ski orienteering near Lake Tahoe presented by the Truckee Orienteering Club

¹ Sanctioned by OUSA

Updated: Mar 9, 2026, 9:50 PM PDT • Edit