Celebrate the 50th anniversary of our first event!

June 6th, 1971: Hans Bengtsson set the first courses at Houghton's Pond
(before NEOC was officially formed as a club in April, 1972)

We are recreating that event, complete with a Black-and-White USGS map, "updated for 1971" with some added features. Come experience orienteering as it was in its infancy in New England.

Map Scale: 1:10000

Courses: Novice (3.3 km), Short (4.0 km), Long (6.8 km)
All controls are Yellow level; none on trails, all within fifty meters of a trail. There will be no water on the course.

Join us after your course for a Bring-Your-Own-Picnic at picnic site #4. (The potluck format is suspended this year.)

NEOC's Annual General Meeting (AGM), with election for the Board of Directors, will take place starting at 1:00 PM.

Start/Finish and Parking

• Registration: Near Houghton's Pond Picnic Area 4
• Parking: 50 Blue Hill River Rd., Milton MA
  There is a parking lot at the end of Hill River Road and several parking areas along the road.

Registration

There will be two ways to register:

• If you have your own finger-stick, and we have your stick number and name on file, you can "dip" your stick at the meet computer, verify your name, and choose your course.
• Otherwise, scan a “check in” QR code with your smartphone. Enter your name, course, and finger-stick number. (Loaner finger-sticks will be available.)
  If you do not have a smartphone (or don’t want to bring it to the event), we will have volunteers who can enter your information.

Clear/Check your finger stick. Proceed to Start. Please allow at least 1 minute between starts on the same course.

Finish

• Please indicate that you are off the course (even if you don’t find all the controls or get fed up partway through!) by downloading your finger-stick.
• There will be no results monitor. Scan a QR code to view results on the Web. If you supplied an email address at registration, results will be emailed to you.