Orienteering

Introducing the University of Plymouth Orienteering Club (UPOC)!

Orienteering:

An outdoor adventure sport, orienteering involves running and navigating with a map and compass to aim to complete a course as quickly as possible. Choose your route, encounter challenges, find checkpoints and discuss with friends at the finish!

We run through terrain in areas like Dartmoor, sand dunes, forests of every kind, parkland, towns, cities, and many more.

As a new club, we’re excited to explore Devon and beyond, with regular navigation training in stunning scenery. We’re here to help you learn and practice the basics of navigation, a priceless life skill, as well as join a community in what is a new and unheard-of sport for many!

Land navigation:

a longer distance longer duration sport, close to 10 tors or DOE. 

Schedule:

Travel to events at least once a month

Bi-Weekly social events, such as:

• Group day hikes to areas like Dartmoor or along the South West Coast Path.
• Mount Edgecumbe parkrun + picnic trips
• social runs
• beerenteering

We're looking forward to the year ahead and all the adventures it'll bring. We hope to see you there! If you have any questions about the club, please feel free to contact our committee on the UPOC Instagram (@uop.orienteering).

2026/27 Committee:

Captain: Harry Rushton

Health and Safety Officer: Elliot Munro

Treasurer: Alf Owen

Secretary: El barrett