Our dear friend and club member Wally passed away about a week ago, after having been ill for some time. He was approaching 90.  Wally was the most influential person in street orienteering when we started, and for many years subsequently. It was inconceivable that one day he wouldn’t be around, but his health meant […]

Anyone who knows me, knows that Middle Distance events are NOT my favourite. Not so much because of the navigation, but because they often involve lots of scrambling in and out of erosion gullies or sliding down rubble-strewn slopes.  For years, I have toughed it out by entering my “A” age group for Middle Distance […]

The Australian Champs carnival has rolled around again, as it is wont to do.  This year it’s based around Bathurst in NSW.  Pete and I left Ian and Ilze at home to ensure that streetO ran smoothly in our absence, and along with Pres Pete, pointed the Suby north and drove all day.  The Holbrook […]

After a very welcome rest day, we steeled ourselves for the Dungaree Challenge.  This involved head to head loop racing in some supposedly fast open spur-gully terrain.  Turned out to be not that fast as there was a lot of fallen sticks and branches on the ground, but it was very much like Bendigo. Pete […]

Day 4 – Easter Day 3 It was another foggy start to what promised to be another sunny autumn day. The final event was on a new map, Cherry Farm. It promised more rock and more steep stuff. It was a long walk from parking down to the arena, which was set in a very […]

Day 2 – Easter Day 1 (yes I could write a book about the stupidity of the structure of the Easter 3 day carnival that runs for 4 days…) Morning dawned all too soon, and Ilze was very grumpy. The resident rooster had started crowing at about midnight, and continued at regular intervals all night. […]

Day 1 – Prologue Another year, another Easter come and gone. This was my last year in W45AS, meaning that next year I turn 55, and get to move into another age group. What with being one of the oldest in my age category, and my recent disasters, I had absolutely no expectations or ambitions […]

During nearly twenty years of bush orienteering, my successes have been few, and those handful  that I prize have been largely due to factors beyond my control.  An early success was a second place at Victorian Championship, run on that section of Mt Tarrengower that has been described as “the single greatest threat to orienteering […]