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SA Champs Weekend 18-19th Aug: Burra. Entries are now open on Eventor for the SA Night Championships & SA Long Championships. To enter both events at the same time Click this Link. Pre entry and Pre payment essential by Tues 14th Aug. Limited enter on the day/night courses will be available for both events.
News Flash from David Winters at Port Lincoln: :Lincoln and Saltbush had a great Eyre Peninsula Relay Champsionships at Louth Bay on Sun 1st July. Lincoln won A and B and Saltbush C. 45 runners and about 20 Rec people all up.

Don't forget to put your vote in for the course planners award for Belair National Park. Go to results for links.

SA Champs Weekend near Burra

on 19 July 2018.

SA Night Champs and SA Long Champs August 18^th and 19^th

On the weekend of 18^th and 19^th of August Orienteering SA have two events being held north of Burra. Entries are now open on Eventor and will close on Tuesday 14^th of August. The events are about 2.5 to 3 hours north of Adelaide. Continue north of Burra and turn right just after Whyte Yarcowie (follow signs to the respective events)

On the Saturday night the 2018 night championships will be held, with the Long Championships on the Sunday morning.

OHOC are hosting the TundarriSnippet Night Champs on Tundarri (used on day 2 of the 2015 Easter Carnival) with mallee coverage, complex creek TundarriScene systems, and few tracks.

The event will use the flatter eastern part of the map. Pre-entry for the listed classes is required, limited maps will be available for enter at the event.

Event details for the Night Championships are here:

https://eventor.orienteering.asn.au/Events/Show/6663

After the night event, the bush camping will be at the Bri-Glen camp ground

TT are hosting the Long Championships on Mulga Valley. Event details are in Eventor here:

https://eventor.orienteering.asn.au/Events/Show/6656

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Jeffa Lyon has set the courses for this event with assistance from other TT members with the site checking. We are treating this as a last practice of a formal start routine before the 2018 National Carnival which SA are holding, so we will be having allocated start times and you can practice your 4 minute start routine. Start times will be published in advance. You will also need to allow for a walk to the start location. There will be limited Enter on the Day courses which will be available after the pre-entries have started.

Mulga Valley covers some beautiful Mallee country with complex drainage systems and steep erosion gullies and was used on the last day of Easter in 2015. Lots of SA orienteers have been looking forward to another chance of running on this stunning map. There will be a spectator leg and good viewing of the finish run in. There will be 8 Hard courses, 2 moderate courses, an easy and a very easy course available. MulgaCreek4

SA Junior team will sell drinks and toasted sandwiches at the Mulga Valley event as a fundraiser.

For both events, please enter the course appropriate for your age and gender, to be included in OY and Badge (Long Championships only) results.

You can enter and pay for both events at the same time by selecting each event in the Eventor Calendar (https://eventor.orienteering.asn.au/Events), but please check the details and event fees under each event first at the event specific links above. MulgaCreek1

Erica Diment on behalf of Tintookies Orienteering Club & Onkaparinga Hills Orienteering Club

Belair National Park Event July 8th

on 15 July 2018.

Despite the continuing threat of showers and the early crisp air it turned out to be a near perfect day for orienteering. Especially for those faced with climbing to the top of the Park on the longer courses. There were 102 participants who registered for the foot-O and a further 25 for the MTBO, a most pleasing turnout. Many of the people were young or new to orienteering or both.

Even though it didn’t rain the Wallaringa organisers were glad of the use of the large pavilion which kept out the occasional fine misty drizzle. It was certainly the scene of much hectic activity at times, especially when the MTBO group arrived before their 10:30 mass start.

The foot-O people had access to excellent courses planned by Jenny Casanova. These had legs ranging from pleasant easy going alongside crroks on the flats to rather more difficult negotiation of rocks and scrub in steeper sections of the park. The MTBO riders also rode tracks to the top of the park as well as in nearby suburban streets to find as many of the controls as possible in their 3 hour time limit. The locations of their controls were planned by Kaye Haarsma and Peter Mayer.

The event organisers, Mark Overton and Meredith Rasch did an excellent job to pull the event together and thanks are due to all the other Wallaringa helpers who worked under some degree of pressure at times.

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Varied Courses at Morialta

on 26 June 2018.

The weather at Morialta was excellent for orienteering, albeit a little chilly for the organisers early in the morning.

Nigel Dodson Keeffe set six courses to suit the broad range of effort and navigational difficulty that orienteers wished. The long hard course was popular and certainly tested the steep terrain of Morialta, and Nigel made the most of the map to achieve the distance required.

The short hard course was also popular, demonstrating the desire for a navigational test

but not necessarily busting oneself on a Sunday morning.

It was pleasing to see groups, with both family and friends participating.

A thank you to Gerry Velaitis for managing the SI system and all Yalangans for their organisation efforts.

Article by Rob Tucker

Three Days in the Flinders Ranges

on 13 June 2018.

The June long weekend saw SA orienteers, and a few interstate visitors, travel to the Flinders Ranges for 3 days of orienteering. The weekend commenced on Saturday afternoon with a warm-up event on Rawnsley Park station presented by the Southern Arrows. The area is a typical spur gully terrain with complex watercourses, native pines, open areas and rocky ridges.

AMWModerate Sunday moved to the Mannawarra – Prelina map, with a long OY event by OH and course planner Craig Colwell. The area is more subtle spur gully but with many small knolls, native pine cover and open hills, and many watercourses. The area offers fast running, but the opportunity to easily lose map contact as some orienteers found. Low cloud obscuring the distinctive hills early in the event added to the navigational challenge. Craig’s long courses offered a great mix of leg types, with some long legs (as on Course 2 below), combined with more technical sections with short legs especially near the end of the course requiring you to maintain concertation to the end.

The fast terrain was exemplified by Simon Uppill who completed the 15.5 km M21A course in 77 minutes, a running rate of 5 mins/km! Bridget Anderson was fasted on the W21A course – 12.6 km in 96:45 minutes.

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Tyson Hillyard was the course planner for the WA Middle Distance event on the Monday. This was the northern part of the same map, with some overlap in area with the Sunday event allowing the use of the same finish area. The subtle terrain, with some complex areas again offered a technical challenge in the courses set by Tyson. The sun also appeared for the day, with Rawnsley Bluff being a backdrop the event.

All results are available on the Results page. Here you will also find links to Route Gadget where you can view all the courses, and to Winsplits to see where you and others may have made errors.

And don’t forget to vote for the Course Planner of the Year Award at the links here as well.

Below - some juniors enjoying the orienteering.

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Blustery Weather for North Adelaide Event

on 21 June 2018.

course1 Despite the blustery squalls of rain interspersed with sunshine, the courses planned by Heather Smith were tested by a number of people. Keen orienteers looking for a run, and those wanting to hone their skills, chose the moderate course. Newcomers and younger children tried the very easy and easy courses. People were challenged by changes in details on the map.