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The 'Back to Granite' weekend hosted by Goldseekers Orienteers and Bennelong Northside Orienteers promises to bring some exciting competition and great terrain together.
Saturday sees the NSW Middle Distance Championships being contested at Kahli's Rocks near Vittoria, with a map which combines open farmland with native forest liberally sprinkled with granite outcrops for some devilish detail. Bennelong's event at Gumble Pinnacles is the NSW Long Distance Championships, is the second map of the weekend from Eric Andrews, well known mapper who brings a real artistry to representing rock features.
Final details for this weekend's State League events are now available online here. Entry on the Day courses will be available for Very Easy, Easy, Moderate and Hard courses (Sat Hard 7, Sun Hard 6)
Spooks in the Park is an exciting new joint venture between ONSW and Centennial Park in Sydney to raise funds for both organisations.
Spooks in the Park is a Halloween themed orienteering course on 27th October from 1200-1800hrs for children where at each control site there is a spooky game to play. Some of the games include a coconut shy where the coconuts are skulls and the balls are eyeballs, a zombie run, a ‘test of terror’ and a giant spiders web to crawl through. As well as drawing together two great partners to deliver the event, local schools are also getting involved, with some of Ascham School's Duke of Edinburgh scheme students joining in the fun to help on the day.
Another cracking Darks Common event under the guiding hand of Richard Lauder was won by Big Foot Patrik Gunnarrsson going one place better than last year and leading in Lee Coady, who overhauled Paul Marsh on the second sprint, but couldn't keep up with Patrik despite catching him at the first control.
Read all about the fleet feet at Big Foot Sprints with Big Foot President Andy Simpson's report here.
WaggaRoos has won the 2012 Interclub Series against Albury. In the final event conducted at Connorton last Sunday WaggaRoos had a narrow 12 point to 8 victory bringing the overall scores for the four event series to 72 points to 52.
Briohny Seaman (W) had an excellent run on the 5.9km Red course which looped around three large hills. Participants needed to make careful route choice decisions to avoid the hills and rocky areas. A number of controls required fine reading of the underlying contour features which was difficult given the prevalence of black symbols indicating rocky features. On some hillsides the Stypandra was very pretty but also difficult to traverse.
For the Interclub series points are awarded according to places for an equal number of participants from each club on each course.
Briohny gained maximum points for WaggaRoos finishing almost 7 minutes clear of Albury’s Leigh Privett. John Oliver (W) was third in just ahead of Wayne Bajenoff (A). This gave WaggaRoos a useful 6:4 point lead.
Debbie Davey had a brilliant run on the 4km Red course finishing almost 20 minutes ahead of Norm McCann (A). Wes Campbell (W) finished in third place. Albury’s John Trevivian missed a control giving WaggaRoos 6:4 points for this course.
Kath Oliver had the fastest time on the 3.2km Orange course. The course wandered across more open areas and followed a pretty stream before heading back along some power lines. The Wetherspoon and James families enjoyed the wander even stopping for a short picnic lunch on the way. There were no Albury participants on this course so no points were allocated.
2 year old Hannah Holland and mother Catherine were the only participants on the 2.3km Green course.
Many thanks to John Oliver for this report.
