You've discovered an orienteering event!

Orienteering is a sport in which people race across complicated terrain, using a map to find specific control points. (If you found this page through a QR code, you probably came across one of our control point markers, which look like flags or kites.) When competitors find the marker they record the time by tapping the electronic device with a tiny one on their finger. At the finish, a computer will read their "finger stick" to ensure they visited all the controls for their course, and in the right order.

At some events, participants are allowed to visit controls in any order they want. Everyone starts at the same time and has a time limit in which they can find as many as they can. Harder-to-reach controls are worth more points.

Eastern Washington Orienteering Club holds events in parks around the Spokane area about once a month. Our growing map library includes Riverside, Liberty Lake, Manito, Lincoln, the Cheney Wetlands, the EWU campus, the south hill quarry, Indian Canyon, and other beautiful places worth exploring. For about $10 you get a map and fun way for you and a few friends to get outside and see parts of these parks you might never see otherwise. Our events are always set up to accommodate people of any navigational skill level.

Go to our main page to see the current and upcoming events. If you sign up for event reminders, we'll send you an email about a week before each event. (About 10 emails a year from us, and we won't give your email address to anyone else.)

See you outside again soon!