Harmony Acres Orienteering Ride

Name: Harmony Acres Orienteering Ride
Start: 2024-09-21T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-09-22T15:00:00-06:00
Location: Harmony Acres Equestrian Center

Schedule

Sat Sep 21 2024 at 08:00 am to Sun Sep 22 2024 at 03:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Harmony Acres Equestrian Center | Fruita, CO

Join us for a 2 day Competitive Mounted Orienteering ride! Ride one or both days. Camping is available.
Competitive Mounted Orienteering (CMO) is one of the most challenging and exciting equestrian sports - for the competitive as well as casual horse rider!
Riders compete either as a team or an individual. Competitors draw for a randomly assigned starting time, with riders leaving every five or ten minute interval.
Each competitor is given a map at the starting line with the area's roads and trails clearly marked. Scattered throughout the ride area are ten numbered circles marked on the map - these are the locations of the Objective Stations, the treasure in this mounted treasure hunt! An Objective Station is a 9" paper plate with two highlighted letters, the ride date and a station number written on it - hidden somewhere within the circle.
On the back of the map after each station number are compass bearings taken TO or FROM identifiable landmark clues. The circle on the map indicates the approximate area on the map where the objective station and the supporting clues are located. Correctly reading a map and taking accurate compass readings are important skills to master in this fast paced sport.
The object of the sport is to ride out and find as many of the Objective Stations as you can and get back in the least amount of time, on either a long ten station or short five station course.