If you go down to Pomingalarna today...

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Last Updated: Monday, 22 October 2012 10:55

Molly Thomson and Emma Black came to Pomingalarna for their Sunday constitutional and on discovering Waggaroos hosting a club event, decided to give orienteering a go. They thoroughly enjoyed the experience despite trouble finding one of the ruins on the site. Frequent visitors to Pomingalarna they discovered there were areas they had never seen; the orienteering courses had them venturing into brand new parts to them. The Russell family also tried orienteering for the first time with a stroll around the 2.2km Easy Course. They caught onto the principles quickly and recorded the fastest time. Beryl Latham also enjoyed her wander to finish second but more importantly she won handicap honour for the day.

The more experienced orienteers had some interesting competition on the 5.2km Hard course.  Starting from the Sturt Highway entrance participants criss-crossed and looped around the hills looking for particular earth banks, depressions, watercourses and power poles.  Generally the terrain was open and fast and even the scrubby areas were quite easy to push through at a reasonable rate. Briohny Seaman, John Oliver and Deb Davey were close together for most of the course, with Briohny eventually prevailing by just over 2 minutes. 

Many thanks to John Oliver for this report