The Rangiora Christmas Caper and ensuing picnic gave us a great opportunity to acknowledge both the most consistent Orienteers of the year – the winners of the coveted stick men Orienteer of the Year trophies, AND various other VERY deserving members. Continue reading
Rangiora Christmas Caper Results are here (pdf)
This weekends South Island championships managed to claim the welfare of 3 of our star orienteers; Gordon Smith rolled his ankle badly on Saturday, Carsten Jorgenson after tirelessly re-mapping and planning Acheron Forest for us to enjoy (?) was blown away by the intense heat while Graham Garden was taken out by a rescue helicopter after impaling himself in the jaw with a tree (you must have been going really fast Graham!) Thankfully he is ok, thanks to the many people that helped to build a stretcher, phone for the helicopter, etc. Martin Etherington captured the touchdown of the helicopter here.
Results of the South Island and Canterbury Championships Long Distance event held on the Acheron map on Sunday 27th November can be viewed here (pdf). Winsplits
Results of the South Island and Canterbury Championships Middle Distance event held at Kairaki on Saturday 26th November can be viewed here (pdf) . Winsplits
South Island/ Canterbury Champs – at Kairaki Beach and Acheron Forest – this weekend programme here, middle (Kairaki) start times here and long (Acheron) starts here.
Apologies for lateness..
Check out the latest PAPO newsletter for November here
Results from DOCs event on ‘Humpy Bumpy’ can either be viewed here (PDF) as times and places, or here on winsplits.
Results from the highly competitive sinkhole sprint string course, won by Alistair Richardson with a time of 1:19. Continue reading
Results from OY 5 (or maybe it was 6?) Results follow, winsplits here. OY points are now up.