Online Resources

Within each resource category, listings are roughly in order starting with those for beginners and progressing down to those more suited for advanced training and/or orienteers.

Very Useful Documents

Learn Orienteering - One of the best sites summarizing just about every aspect of orienteering.

Control Description Sheet - Our most requested sheet, fully explaining how to decipher a control (clue) sheet as presented symbolically on intermediate and advanced courses (beginner courses usually have the clues for the control locations shown in text form rather than symbolic).

Map Symbols - PDF & JPG downloadable guides for understanding orienteering map symbols.

Condes User Guides This is the site to head to for guides to using Condes, the course setting program QOC uses most often.

Tick Types & By Season A two-page PDF with illustrations of local ticks followed by a description of when they're active and which pathogens they might carry.

Videos

Orienteering: The adventure sport for all - Introduction to what orienteering is about, from the British Orienteering Federation; 2 min, 2007, YouTube

Orienteering for Beginners - Very effective demonstration of how you do a beginner's orienteering course, made by an 11 year old; 2 min, 2006, YouTube

Orienteering Techniques: Handrails - 1st of 5 instructional videos showing fundamental navigation techniques, the others in this series being Aiming Off, Attack Points, Collecting Features, and Catching Features; ~4 min each, 2010, YouTube

Sprint Orienteering Tips - Demonstration of 3 Sprint orienteering tips; 4 min, 2007, YouTube

Follow me Tero - Perhaps the original of what are now many "Tero" (Thierry Gueorgiou) videos, all of which have show many advanced skills practiced by one of the sports greatest stars; for many more from or about Tero, search YouTube for "Gueorgiou"; 2 min, 2007, YouTube

Games

Map Symbols Training - several online interactive quizzes and tutorials (including a 3D map)

IKnow-O - interactive way to learn about both control descriptions and map symbols

Control Descriptions Quiz - a full page of online interactive quizzes for learning or reviewing clue symbols

O-Game App simple graphics with arrow control of orienteering figure

Catching Features - Orienteering in the virtual world; this game can be played in multiplayer mode or on your PC, and can use real terrains as well. ($)

Forums and Websites

Attackpoint - Event calendars, training logs, course splits and other very useful features can be freely used whether or not you participate in the collective kvetching that occasionally dominates discussion threads.

Better Orienteering - A website to help newcomers start orienteering and to help existing orienteers improve. A PDF summary is available here.

O-Training - A website specifically intended as a resource for orienteering technical training.

Orienteering Gear Vendors

A list of vendors of orienteering gear and services can be found on the Orienteering USA website here.

Tick Testing Options (prices subject to change)

Tick testing companies include:

Tick Check and Tick Research Lab of PA - East Stroudsburg PA; $50/100/200 for ~6/13/32 pathogens. Can test multiple ticks together. Tick Check is consumer facing; Tick Res. Lab is the academic lab; same testing for both but prices can differ.
Ticknology - Fort Collins CO; $40/$60(rush) testing for 14 pathogens. Ticks kept for 1 year in case further testing requested.
Tick Report - Amherst MA; $60/100/200 for testing ~7/14/25+ pathogens.

Magazines (digital)

Scanned and hosted by QOC member Greg Lennon, digital versions of the Orienteering North America magazine published between 1984 - 1999 are available at URL https://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/aigx.