Peninsula & Plains Orienteers (PAPO) is the Canterbury Orienteering club. Based in Christchurch with members as far afield as: Timaru, Ashburton, Geraldine, Rangiora and Hanmer Springs. We are a friendly bunch of volunteers who aim to promote orienteering and encourage navigation using maps for fun and competition.
See Upcoming events for those events coming up soon or the Calendar for the full program for the year. These range from training and fun events to fully competitive events at the local and national level. The programme includes classic orienteering events, mountain bike orienteering (MTBO) and rogaines. Non-members are always welcome.
PAPO events will continue to be pre-entry as this simplifies the event organisation and allows participants to pay electronically. See each event page for the event entry link for that event.
Saturday 17 June 2023
Night OY. Leithfield is a beautiful map with a mixture of sand dunes, flat areas, open grassland and fast forest. more infoSunday 6 August 2023
Double Sprint OY morning - Nga Puna Wai more info08 May 2023
Nathan Fa'avae invites you to reflect on your own life's purpose and passions. Get ready to be uplifted, motivated, and changed by Nathan Fa'avae's incredible story of triumph and resilience. At the same time you will be helping support the PAPO selected Junior World Orienteering team to fundraise to go to... more info08 May 2023
Congratulations to a huge PAPO contingent named in the Orienteering NZ JWOC team, there is going to be some intense training happening around here. Fabulous news for: Felix Hunt, Ryan Moore, Fergus O’Neill, Anna Babington, Katherine Babington, and Kaia Jørgensen and with Nathan Borton and Zara Stewart living in Christchurch this year... more info31 January 2023
Have a read of last years' AGM minutes and see what PAPO are doing for you and the club. It is in our best interest to hold orienteering events and encourage more get into navigation and map sports. Feel free to ask questions about the overall health of the sport in Canterbury, or suggest how... more info