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Quantico Orienteering Club
Serving the Orienteering Community in the Greater Washington,DC(Virginia, Maryland and Washington, DC)
General Information
Quantico Orienteering Club events always include a course suitable for beginners. Registration is usually open from noon to 2 pm EDT or 11 am to 1 pm EST; beginner's instruction is the first half hour. Regular registration fees are $6 for individual club members and visitors who are members of USOF or other clubs with reciprocal agreement with QOC, and $10 for non-members. For each additional map that a group used, there is a charge of four dollars. Group rates
To join the Club... ask at an event for more information. We will need the following information from all members: Name, Address (street, city, state, zip), Home Phone, Work Phone, E-Mail Address, Date Joined, and additional family names if a family membership. Membership fees are $20.00 per individual for 12 months or $30 for family. Membership Form
Origin of Club
Orienteering was incorporated into the curriculum of the Marine Corps
Physical Fitness Academy at Quantico, Virginia in the summer of 1967.
Soon thereafter Marines at Quantico from outside the Academy took up
orienteering primarily to form teams to compete against other military
services as well as in international military orienteering competitions.
In 1970, the Quantico orienteers organized into a club and included
interested parties from outside the base. Gradually the club evolved
into a community based organization and severed its official ties to
the Marine Corps Base, Quantico. The club name remains because of its
rich tradition as the leader in the founding of the United States
Orienteering Federation.
Past presidents and volunteers of the year winners.
Trim Courses
There is a permanent
course at Hemlock Overlook Park. Prince William
Forest Park also
has a permanent orienteering
course.
There are two trim courses in Maryland that were done as Eagle Project for the Scouts.
They are Hashawha - Bear Branch Park in Westminster, MD (map is 1:5000, done in 2005
using Adobe. There is no fee to use the park which is near the center of Westminster on the Rt. 140 highway,
exit north on Maryland Rt. 97 for 3 miles. Turn right on John Owings Rd. After a mile, turn
left at the Hashawa-Bear Branch entrance sign. In a few hundred yards, turn right to the
Bear Branch Nature Center which has permanent course maps. Dave Linthicum helped the Scout)
and Cromwell Valley Park. (Ken Walker family map, c. 2002, OCAD).
Board of Directors
If you are willing to donate an hour of your time to help
with a local event, please register your name and phone number with the
vice president below and someone will call you to work out the best
time for you to participate. All jobs done at meets are easily
learned, and there is always plenty of time left for Orienteering!
You may click on the names of the president and vice president to send
email to them. Maryland Vice President has responsibility for
events north of the Potomac River. Virginia Vice President has
responsibility for them south of the Potomac River.
The presidents can bring your concerns to the Board of Directors.
About this Page
This page maintained by Sidney Sachs.
Please send any bug reports, typos, suggestions for changes, or additions to
him..
He updates the page after
each Quantico's event or when he receives new information. Results
are only for the last six months, newsletters for only three months.
This page started in January 1996.