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The Canadian Orienteering Federation has created an online map archive (called DOMA), available to all Canadian orienteers. DOMA allows you to share your orienteering maps after your race. Simply scan/photograph your map (with or without your route), and upload it to the archive.

If you would like a DOMA account send an email to doma@orienteering.ca with your full name and email address (you must be full members of a provincial orienteering associations).

The archive is available here:
DOMA for all Canadian orienteers

For elite runners, there is a separate archive:
DOMA for Elite Runners (High Performance Program athletes)

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Below the GPS track by Mike Daoust (Long, 1:19:54).
Detailed results and  report are here!

Some great orienteering events will take place not far from Montreal in 2011. Among others, two US championships are in within driving distance (Williamstown, NY and Boston, MA). A season highlight will be the Ontario Championships in Carp near Ottawa, which will be held in the same terrain as last year’s COC (October 8-9). Closer to home: The  Laurentian Rogaine is scheduled for  May 7 and September 10. For details check the event page.

With the temperature just above freezing and the sky overcast, we didn’t really expect a big turnout at this end-of-season event…and unfortunately, we had assumed correctly.  A few days earlier, when we hung the flags, new snow had been wonderfully fluffy, the air was crisp and a bright sun had been shining down on us. The Arboretum was showing her glorious best.  But, winter can be very fickle and her moods can change quickly.

In the end, the snow for the ‘Shoeing event was quite good.  For the Ski-O it was satisfactory for some and passable for others.  There was good snow coverage but waxing was definitely a problem.  Those with the right wax – or with waxless skis – did well.

The winners (long courses): Francis Falardeau on ski, Jennifer O‘Connell on snowshoes. Detailed results here (pdf)