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The 2022 ACT & NSW Ski-Orienteering Championship will be held at Perisher Valley on Sunday 14th August, organised by Red Roos, Big Foot and Perisher X Country. This event forms part of XC Ski week ( www.perisherxcountry.org ) with the start in front of the beautiful, warm and special Nordic Shelter at Perisher. Everyone who loves or dreams of trying Skiing or Orienteering, will be able to take an opportunity to combine both skills and to take part in our exciting Championship. It will be the 8th Championship, after Swedish ski-o expert Patrik Gunnarsson brought the concept back to Perisher in 2014. It was no events in 2020-2021 due to the Covid. It is the only Ski-O event in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere!!!
Courses: ROGAINE – 2 hours - SOLO and TEAMS (kids – 1 hour Rogaine)
Start: Start any time between 10:00am-11:30pm; Finish closes at 1:30pm
Entries already are open here:
Please register through Eventor - https://eventor.orienteering.asn.au/Events/Show/17256
Information Promotional Flyer - link
Invitation to 2022 Ski-O Championships - link
Day 2 at Burngoogee was cold with some misty rain.
Course setters for today’s long races were orienteering royalty, Jenny Bourne and Geoff Lawford on behalf of OACT, and their courses were well received, utilising the faster, more open terrain with some classic long legs mixed with shorter technical legs in the scattered granite.
In the elite classes, Nea Shingler, Sam Woolford, and Grace Crane all backed up their day 1 wins with comfortable wins over the longer distances.
Alistair George also went back-to-back but he was chased all the way by Martin Dent, the final margin being just 45 seconds over 11.1 kms.
One of the closest results came in M18 where Oscar Brown pipped Cooper Horley by just 4 seconds after 6.9km.
In M70A, Nick Dent, Bill Jones and Bruce Bowen finished 1, 2, 3 for the second day straight.
There were many other 2-day winners across junior and senior classes, leaving them well placed for overall victory after tomorrow’s Sprint at CSU.
Day 1 Middle distance was cold but dry with the courses set by NSW Stingers young guns Ewan Shingler and Duncan Currie testing competitors and drawing praise.
After a steep walk to the start, courses zig zagged across and down the steep hillside through technical granite terrain.
A stand out (see photos) was 98 year old Herman Werner completing the M95 course, with support from daughter Kirsten.
NSW Stingers WOC team member Alistair George was a strong winner in M21A whilst Canberra's Grace Crane won clearly in W21A.
JWOC bound Stingers Nea Shingler and Erica Enderby quinella'd W20A whilst another Stingers JWOC team member, Sam Woolford, won M20A.
It was also very encouraging to see so many entries in the junior classes.
Please fill in the quick Course Setter of the year survey here.
The 47th Great NOSH Footrace was held last Sunday. There were plenty of orienteers out trail running or volunteering for the day.
