Adventure Stories - Field Notes 78: Orienteering

Stories that titillate and tickle by two world class orienteers. Listeners will learn about the various types of orienteering and what it takes to get to the World Champs, hint, it’s within your grasp! No matter if orienteering is right for you, we encourage you to consider taking up a new and awkward challenge!

Adventure Storytellers: Julie Cassata, Abra McNairFrom: Seattle, WA & Portland, OR
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This week's featured adventure stories

Abra McNair's Adventure Story: Orienteering Fails

Abra joined us in Portland, OR. She spends a lot of her time purposefully lost in the woods, choosing her own adventure, no matter how humiliating, as you’ll hear in her story featured in this episode.

Abra McNair's Website: orienteeringadventures.wordpress.com
- Not very updated, but cool adventures and pictures of maps from our European travels last year.
Abra McNair's Instagram: @abramcstar

Abra McNair Mountain Bike Orienteering (MTBO)

Julie Cassata's Adventure Story: The Allure of Orienteering

Julie joined us at Seattle Boldly Went. She’s a long distance runner, thru-hiker, and orienteer, most recently having completed the Bellingham Bay road marathon, small change for an athlete like her.

We want to extend Julie’s encouragement and encourage you to find someone that's doing their intriguing activity and to go along and do it too. Maybe that’s orienteering, maybe it’s something else, but go and do it. Be brave and let yourself be awkward and get comfortable with making mistakes and going back to correct them. When you do, you stretch your mind, you make it think outside of it’s normal pathways and you create new pathways. You will grow exponentially because of it, and that will make you a resilient human being!

Julie is a certified Oula Instructor.
Check out this dance video from the PCT where it all started.

Julie Cassata punching the orienteering control

Julie Cassata at the orienteering control, checking the map

Julie Cassata at the orienteering control

Try Orienteering

Here's some resources to help you get started with Orienteering

Abra's favorite orienteering event: Sprint Camp Weekend in Vancouver, BC

Three days,
10 sprint events,
Endless amounts of body pain!

Portland orienteering: Columbia River Orienteering (CROC)

Seattle orienteering: Cascade Orienteering Club (COC)

National events: Orienteering USA

Huge international orienteering event: O-Ringen

Abra says it's a top bucket list item for people!
Takes place every year in Sweden.
Sometimes 20,000+ people attend to spend a week orienteering!

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