What Happens at a Meet
Check our our SCHEDULE page to find out when and where a meet will take place. Upon arrival, you will need to register yourself and/or your group and pay your meet fee. You will be given a clue sheet, and punch card. At this time you can rent a compass if you don't have one. If you are doing the white (beginning) course, you will get your map at registration and you can look at it. Other course maps will be provided after you start. If you are new to Orienteering you should look for an instructor for a quick class. 

You will then proceed to the start area  and get your start time. Make sure you don't forget you start time and be around the start area five minutes before your  time. The starter will say go when it is time to start. You now have started you course. As quickly as you can, locate each control on your course and punch your card as you go. 

Upon finishing the course, you will need to locate the finish and give you punch card to the finish official. It is important that, whether or not you successfully find all the controls, you give your punch card to the finisher or let the finisher know if you lost the card. This prevents us from thinking someone is lost when they are not.