If you go down to Pomingalarna today...
- 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
Southern Sydney Summer Series starts today!
- Last Updated: Monday, 15 October 2012 08:20
The 2012 Southern Sydney Summer Series starts today, Monday 15th October at Robertson Park, Watsons Bay. The first of seven events in and around Eastern and Southern Sydney, this is being hosted by Illawarra Kareelah and organised by the President of the club himself, Kevin Curby.
Set in one of the most beautiful parts of Sydney, the afternoon score event (starts anytime between 4.30pm and 6.45pm) will treat participants to gun barrel views of the harbour, glimpses of South Head and huge vistas out to sea as they work their way around the course in 45 minutes. First timers will receive a voucher for free entry into a subsequent event in the series, and with events scheduled over the coming weeks in Randwick, Marrickville, Maroubra, Kogarah, Belfield and Clovelly there will be plenty to choose from.
Snow Hills State League - cancelled
- Last Updated: Friday, 12 October 2012 12:42
With over 100mm of rain having fallen in the last 24 hours Big Foot organisers of the State League have had to take the tough decision of cancelling the event at Snow Hills this weekend.
'We are so disappointed for everyone, but we have been keeping tabs on the weather, and even up to yesterday were hoping that we could still run the event,' says Jock Davis. 'It simply became clear today that the event is just not viable with this much water standing on the terrain. From a 2km walk to assembly it became a 4km walk. Getting cars and kit in was just not an option. Unsealed roads to the event site are really difficult and some of the key fords are under water.'
Please refer to the Big Foot website for any further updates.
ONSW welcomes new Technical Director
- Last Updated: Monday, 08 October 2012 10:22
The ONSW Board are pleased to welcome Andrew Lumsden of Big Foot Orienteers onto the Board as the new Technical Director replacing Gordon Wilson who steps down having provided the Association with many years of solid expertise.
Andrew has been a keen orienteer for 40 years and has been a member of Big Foot since its early days and Garingal before that. He represented Australia as a junior, but nowadays his goal is to have zero slow legs on Winsplits. Andrew has controlled a number of State and Australian Championships and the WMOC Sprint Final.
Andrew’s goals as Technical Director are to maintain the high quality of NSW orienteering and to ensure events are run safely and with good landowner relations. He has started out by talking to competitors at the recent NSW Long and Middle Distance Championships to see what they liked and disliked about the events.
Many thanks to Gordon Wilson and welcome Andrew!
