2010 Australian Championships
"The Providence Rogaine" - Australian Rogaine Championships, Kosciusko National Park - 27-28 March 2010
Congratulations to all the winners and place-getters, and thanks to everyone competing and to all the helpers for making the event a success.
For David and Julie, setters and organisers on behalf of ACTRA, the 2010 Australian Rogaining Championships were an opportunity to bring people to the high country and show off some of our favourite country. Ideally we would have loved to have you there in December or January when the wildflowers are abundant and you were more likely to get bitten by march flies than be stung by wasps. We were lucky with perfect weather for the event weekend though.
We hope you enjoyed the course. We believe we achieved our goal of making a navigationally challenging course – especially at night! There were plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The variation in the routes that teams took also demonstrated our other goal that was to make the route planning very difficult and to scatter you across the whole map. The map was a tad large, but we really did want to include the beautiful country to the west of Four Mile Hill fire trail, especially with the gold mining history in the area. We know the vetters and collectors have found it interesting to poke around and hope that you took a moment or two to do so as well.
A big thanks to Ay-Up Lighting Systems for donating two fantastic lightsets - our lucky winners were Stephen Honey from Victoria and Nihal Danis from NSW.
We would also like to take a moment to thank the many, many people from ACTRA who made the event happen with a number of setting/vetting/hanging weekends based at the McAuley’s holiday house at Anglers Reach, the behind the scenes equipment, catering, website, finances, trophy organising, the event weekend helpers setting up, packing up, and at the hash house, all night café and the very important mountain bike safety patrols, and finally the control collection. These people were: Helen McAuley, Ian McAuley, Mark McDonald, Susie Sprague, Selina Stoute, David Foster, Alex Ramsey, Andrew Rowe, David Singleton, Judy Jenkinson, Ian Booth, Keith Conley, Glenn Bridgart, Claire Edwards, Grant Battersby, Michael Hutchinson, Michael Reed, Emily Stewart-Reed, David Poland, Luke Poland, Oliver Poland, Noah Poland, Toni Brown, Alyssa Rogan, Ron Simpson, Jeannie Douglass, Jonathan Miller, Pat Miethke, Kathy Saw, Anne Sawkins, Parissa Poulis, Sean McElhinney, Sue Janas, Silke Speier, Greg Terrill, John Barnes, Mardi Barnes.
Adaminaby P&C did a great job for us on Friday night and Saturday morning with catering and the Hartley Ability Lifecare team did a great job for the rogaine catering.
Thanks also to AROCSport for loan of water cubes used at the HH and ANC, Triathlon ACT for traffic management equipment and generator, and to the ACT government for a complete set of state flags that helped made the site look so good.
Read MoreCongratulations to all the winners and place-getters, and thanks to everyone competing and to all the helpers for making the event a success.
For David and Julie, setters and organisers on behalf of ACTRA, the 2010 Australian Rogaining Championships were an opportunity to bring people to the high country and show off some of our favourite country. Ideally we would have loved to have you there in December or January when the wildflowers are abundant and you were more likely to get bitten by march flies than be stung by wasps. We were lucky with perfect weather for the event weekend though.
We hope you enjoyed the course. We believe we achieved our goal of making a navigationally challenging course – especially at night! There were plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The variation in the routes that teams took also demonstrated our other goal that was to make the route planning very difficult and to scatter you across the whole map. The map was a tad large, but we really did want to include the beautiful country to the west of Four Mile Hill fire trail, especially with the gold mining history in the area. We know the vetters and collectors have found it interesting to poke around and hope that you took a moment or two to do so as well.
A big thanks to Ay-Up Lighting Systems for donating two fantastic lightsets - our lucky winners were Stephen Honey from Victoria and Nihal Danis from NSW.
We would also like to take a moment to thank the many, many people from ACTRA who made the event happen with a number of setting/vetting/hanging weekends based at the McAuley’s holiday house at Anglers Reach, the behind the scenes equipment, catering, website, finances, trophy organising, the event weekend helpers setting up, packing up, and at the hash house, all night café and the very important mountain bike safety patrols, and finally the control collection. These people were: Helen McAuley, Ian McAuley, Mark McDonald, Susie Sprague, Selina Stoute, David Foster, Alex Ramsey, Andrew Rowe, David Singleton, Judy Jenkinson, Ian Booth, Keith Conley, Glenn Bridgart, Claire Edwards, Grant Battersby, Michael Hutchinson, Michael Reed, Emily Stewart-Reed, David Poland, Luke Poland, Oliver Poland, Noah Poland, Toni Brown, Alyssa Rogan, Ron Simpson, Jeannie Douglass, Jonathan Miller, Pat Miethke, Kathy Saw, Anne Sawkins, Parissa Poulis, Sean McElhinney, Sue Janas, Silke Speier, Greg Terrill, John Barnes, Mardi Barnes.
Adaminaby P&C did a great job for us on Friday night and Saturday morning with catering and the Hartley Ability Lifecare team did a great job for the rogaine catering.
Thanks also to AROCSport for loan of water cubes used at the HH and ANC, Triathlon ACT for traffic management equipment and generator, and to the ACT government for a complete set of state flags that helped made the site look so good.
