Train with a club that is the centre of family social life, travel to a week-long event and camp together as a club, hold club tents at the arena, and repeat the same annual trip for decades. Clubs, which are unusually strong and unusually family-centred, national federations with published rankings and entry systems, and the event campsite, which is a temporary village of clubs.

The control, punching, the SI card, a leg, route choice, relocating, a parallel error, mispunching, the arena, the start triangle, the map spoken of as an object of quality. The July Swedish six-day week, the biennial Scottish six days, the World Masters championship, and the national multi-day events that occupy the same week each summer.

July above all, when the Swedish week absorbs ten to fifteen thousand people into a forest town for six days. June to August carries the rest of the multi-day season.

November to February in the north, though ski-orienteering and urban events keep the clubs active.