We are pleased to publish the 2021 State League schedule comprising a massive 17 events, including two sets of NSW championships!
It will be a massive year for orienteering in NSW, with the Australian 3-Days over the Easter long weekend in Orange/Molong as well as two areas making their SL debuts.
We have already published our 2021 winter calendar, taking in all the major series. This will be updated once SHOO and Newcastle lick in their event dates.
Covid wiped out all bar one State League this year, so the Board has approved the 2020 NSW Middle and Long champs being transferred to 2021 at the same location (Seldom Seen maps near Eugowra) and same time (the weekend after Easter, April 10-11), hosted by Garingal.
The 2021 NSW Middle and Long champs will see Central Coast and Uringa team up in September on the Gardiners Gap and Long Swamp maps north of Lithgow which were burnt out last summer.
The great news is the dense vegetation there is now almost non-existent, and advance parties have come back in raptures about how good the areas are now looking for orienteering.
As the final SL events for 2021, they will be excellent practice for the Australian Championships in Tasmania later that month.
The State League season starts in March with the NSW Sprint Champs in the Macarthur region and a Long Distance event on Wattle Ridge, another map where huge areas of green are now white.
Hastings Orienteers, our newest club in Port Macquarie, will make their SL debut in July with mentoring from Newcastle. Maps are still being finalised but expect a Sprint and a Middle or Long.
And speaking of new areas, ACT will be hosting a NOL weekend in sand dunes at Broulee on the NSW South Coast in mid-May.
The State League page will be updated as more details come to hand.
