Documents for Club Members & Event Participants
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Club Bylaws - These are the bylaws for the Tucson Orienteering Club (TSN).
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Improve Your Orienteering - This website gives tips on how to improve both basic and advanced orienteering skills.
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Instructions for Minors - This article is for parents or guardians or youth group leaders who will be bringing a minor child under 18 to an event.
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Newsletters - These are all the TSN's newsletters published from 1984 through 2010.
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UsynligO How-to Guide - This article explains how to use a mobile app for orienteering on a course without control markers or flags.
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Volunteer Job Descriptions - This document describes the activities of our club volunteers.
Documents for Meet Directors
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Equipment Locker Layout - This diagram shows how our equipment storage locker is organized.
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Helpful Tips for Meet Directors - This short article for meet directors has some helpful and possibly vital information on how to make your meet go smoothly.
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Meet Director Equipment List - Use this list to keep the meet director's event tubs supplied.
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Meet Director's Manual - This manual was created specifically for TSN local events.
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Motala Timer's Instructions - This concise guide makes it easy for the Timer to record and keep track of the multiple courses for each Tucson Motala participant.
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Paperwork Shuffle for Meet Directors - This chart shows what to do with the paperwork and monies received after holding a TSN orienteering event.
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Prevent Clutter and Avoid These Items - These two guides are for all users of the equipment locker.
Documents for Course Setters
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Control Marker System - This document includes a diagram on how to assemble a TSN control marker system ready to hang in the field.
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Control Marker Cards - This guide describes how to make the cards that are attached to the control marker system.
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Course Setter Equipment List - Use this list to keep the course setter's equipment tubs supplied.
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Course Setter's Guide - This is Orienteering USA's guide on how to set courses for local events.
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Course Setting Using Purple Pen - This tutorial by Neil Crickmore explains how to use Purple Pen freeware to draw your own course maps.
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General Tips for Course Setters - This is Orienteering USA's guide on general considerations for setting courses.
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Helpful Tips for Course Setters - This short article for course setters has some helpful and possibly vital information on how to make your course setting go smoothly.
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How to Make a Street-O Map (video) - This 8-minute short video produced by Cristina Luis gives easy-to-follow steps on how to make your own street-O course map and control descriptions/questions sheet.
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How to Make a Street-O Map (pdf) - This older written guide takes you through the steps for making a street-O map.
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Planning Your First Event - This Orienteering USA web page has loads of helpful hints for setting and directing your first event.
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Prevent Clutter and Avoid These Items - These two guides are for all users of the equipment locker.