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The SHOO Saturday Series finished on 11 February with a romp around the Camden Showground. Careful map reading was required to pick out the fastest routes through farming grasslands and the adjacent Equestion Centre, and this time it was Ian Jones and Corinne Fulford who showed the rest how to gather in the points on offer.
Read more: Summer is drawing to a close - SHOO Saturday Series is complete
The second DuO Adventure Race in the 2011/2012 series was held at Western Sydney Regional Park on Saturday 11 February. With numbers almost double that of the first race in the series held at Killingworth last December it turned out to be an epic adventure.
The Newcastle Summer Series has run the length of its seventeen event calendar, finishing with a race in Mayfield.
With streets laid out in a standard grid, planner Andrew Morris had a challenging job to set the course. 'My aim was to offer as much route choice as possible. Often the quickest runners will take the same routes. I wanted to have the top ten runners potentially all have different route choices. For some controls that meant that I had to resort to doglegs but that was important to make it difficult to link controls in an obvious fashion.'
Read more: Newcastle Summer Series is over. On with the Park Series!
The new ONSW initiative for our younger orienteers, the Wildfires, is up and running. After a highly enjoyable camping and training weekend with the ACT Blue Sparks at the end of 2011, Salme Fuller, Wildfires coach has a full schedule planned for the 2012 season. Salme outlined her plans for the State League season to ONSW Promotion Director Barbara Hill and ONSW Communications Officer Maggie Jones today in a strategy meeting in Miranda. With string courses for the very youngest, and orienteering fun and games for the under 12's at each State League, the Wildfires are going to be having a great time this season.
