The Bay Area Orienteering Club has numerous excellent orienteering event reports on their website. All are well-written and really informative, especially for those wishing to get a "flavor" of what orienteering is like. Here's an example:
http://www.baoc.org/results/...The other eight competitors (including two groups) on the Black course also ran out of steam and/or time, and made their way back to the e-punch download area. But all had the smiles that come from spending an enjoyable day in the redwoods, having made the observation around hour #2 of their 3 or 4 hour effort that the Black course was less about competition than meditation on the nature of gullies and how not to go too deep within...
-Dave
