Category Orienteering in Australia
It Was Fine Till We Crossed the Fence …
Day Three. Warm and sunny again. Mid morning start time again. Multitudes of rocks again. Thick scratchy vegetation again. Remind me why we’re doing this? Oh yeah – cos it feels good when you cross the finish line and you haven’t mispunched on any of the three days. It’s all about still being upright at […]
Bumbling Around the Gumbles
Today’s map rejoices in the name of Gumble Pinnacles. There must be a story behind the name. We were on typical central NSW farming property, with a mass of rock of every shape and size, covering a large area that would be no use to anyone other than a bunch of crazed orienteers. It was […]
The Raising of the Flag
Today was Day 1 proper – the first of three days of technical (ie rock) bush orienteering. The program held all sorts of dire warnings about the complexities that awaited us. It’s been a long time since I tackled a Hard course at this level; first of all my vestibular problems saw me relegated to […]
Getting the Gang Back Together (Almost)
Just over a year ago, Covid caused the cancellation of the Easter 3 Day orienteering (along with everything else). We spent most of 2020 wondering if we’d ever be able to go to a major carnival again. Here we are up in Orange in NSW, having completed Day 1 of the 2021 Australian 3-Day Orienteering […]
The Wilds of Indooroopilly
This morning we flew to Brisbane for a couple of days, to visit the touring NASA exhibition, which is not coming to Melbourne. We planned this several months ago; however it wasnt until last weekend that I thought to check the orienteering calendar. Sure enough, there was a Tuesday NightNav event on in Brisbane, or […]
Two LEGENDS of Street-O rule the Night.
Both my wife Ilze and I are LEGEND members of the Melbourne Millennium Club. To achieve this status a member must have competed in at least 1000 Park and Street Orienteering events since the year 2000. Ilze is close approaching her 1500 and I am nearly 2000 and about half of those events have been […]
A FAMILY MEDAL RUSH.
Enough with the colourful landscape, back to business. Orienteering. Today we have a double header. First event was a 60 minute score course on the Telegraph Station map. A section is in the photos and as it was drawn at 1:6000 it wont all fit on. Great map and the 7.30am start made it fabulous and cool. Strange […]
“…it’s a long way to the Rock if you only want to roll.”
That’s the second time in a few weeks that Dipidyoo have had to make apologies to ACDC. This time it’s Ilze and Pete off to Alice Springs for an outback break and the Alice Springs Masters Games. In the planning stages, a guided bus tour from the Alice to Uluru with a sunset dinner, sounded […]
A Slice of Germany
We woke up to quite a change in the weather – cloudy and cold with a stiff breeze blowing up the hill. It seemed silly to drive to an event that was literally less than 500 metres away from our front door, so we walked instead, setting off late in the morning. We set ourselves […]
South Australia
No sooner had we arrived home and recovered from Europe, than I was repacking my bags, this time for a trip to South Australia with Pete, Ilze, Tina and Vic. The Australian Orienteering Champs were on, and having chucked in my job, I was free to go along for the ride. No such luck for […]
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