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SnowE2005
The 2005 Australian 3-Days at Jindabyne NSW
THE design concept for SnowE2005 will make it an exciting Orienteering experience with the emphasis on innovation. The light beam finish for the Prologue will be a first for a Sprintdistance event and it will be the first use of the Red Group starting procedure for a National League race. Days 1 to 3 will have large
Days 2 and 3 will be in the forests west of Buckenderra Resort. The Jindabyne Sport & Recreation Centre
screen displays, inside a marquee, showing the top 15 finishers in most classes, as well as progressive times for selected competitors still to finish. Class splits will be displayed at the Event Centre on Days Zero, 1 and 2. Class winners will be given maps and encouraged to draw their routes and display them at the Event Centre. Every endeavour will be made to display results on the web by 6.00 pm. All the action on Day Zero will be centred on the athletic track at Jindabyne Sport & Recreation Centre, with four events, the Prologue, the Slologue, the Family & Open Medley Relays, and the Open Middle Distance Handicap Relay being staged there. After Day 1, which will be held at Glenbrook just north of Berridale, the final two days will be staged in the forests west of Buckenderra Resort (pictured left). Early starts on Day 3 will mean early departures for home.
January 6-16 Oceania Carnival Auckland, New Zealand www.geocities.com/nwocnz March 25-28 SnowE 2005 (Aust. 3-Days) Jindabyne, NSW www.ozeaster2005.com April 30-May 8 Southern 6 Day (in conjunction with World Cup), Surrey, UK www.wcup2005.org.uk July 1-5 Pilsner MTB-O 5-Days Plzen, Czech Republic July 8-10 Northern Territory Championships Darwin, NT www.topend.nt.orienteering.asn.au July 11-16 JWOC 2005 Tenero, Switzerland www.asti-ticino.ch/jwoc2005 July 11-16 Swiss 5 Days Tenero, Switzerland July 14-24 World Games (Orienteering 16 & 17 July), Duisberg, Germany http://www.worldgames-iwga.org/ July 17-22 O-Ringen Smaland, Sweden www.oringen.com July 26-28 Hallen 3-Days Hallen, Sweden July 22-31 WMOC 2005 Edmonton, Canada www.wmoc2005.com www.2005worldmasters.com/ July 31-Aug 6 Scottish 6-Days Royal Deeside, Scotland scottish6days.com/2005/2005index.htm July 31-Aug 7 Japan O Tour Aichi Prefecture, Japan August 7-14 WOC 2005 Aichi Prefecture, Japan www.woc2005.jp/ Sept. 5-11 World MTB-O Championships Banska Bystrica, Slovakia www.orienteering.sk/mtbo2005 Sept 24-Oct 2 Australian Championships Carnival Tasmania – Hobart to St. Helens Orienteering Tasmania
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April 14-17 Australian 3-Days Castlemaine, Victoria May 7-14 European Championships Otepaa, Estonia www.orienteerumine.ee/EOC2006 July 1-7 WMOC 2006 Wiener Neustadt, Austria www.wmoc06.com/ July 2-7 JWOC 2006 Druskininkai, Lithuania July 9-14 World MTB-O Championships Joensuu, Finland July 15-22 Swiss O Week Zermatt, Switzerland www.sow2006zermatt.ch July O-Ringen Halsingland, Sweden www.oringen.com July 30-Aug 5 WOC 2006 and Danish WOC Tour 6-Days, Aarhus, Denmark www.woc2006.dk/ 29 Sept-12 Oct Australian Championships Carnival York, Western Australia wa.orienteering.asn.au/ auschamps2006.html
Australian Championships 2005
Bert Elson, OT Director of Publicity and Promotion
Planning is well underway for the 2005 Aus Champs carnival in Tasmania. The detail of the carnival will be provided in future editions of The Australian Orienteer and in brochures and on the website, but those thinking of attending may like to know the following: • Dates: the carnival commences on Saturday 24 September 2005 in
Hobart and will finish in St Helens on Sunday 2 October. • Event Centres: Hobart will be the centre for events from Saturday to Wednesday. From Thursday until its close the carnival will be based at St Helens on Tasmania’s east coast. As Wednesday’s event will be between Hobart and St Helens you may wish to travel on to
St Helens on the Wednesday afternoon. • Transport: it has never been easier or cheaper to get to Tasmania!
Spirit of Tasmania 1 & 2 ply Bass Strait every night. Cars only cost $10 to bring to Tasmania. Alternatively fly to Tasmania and hire a car. With Virgin and Jetstar offering a wide range of discount fares as low as $65 from Melbourne! The Aus Champs 2005 section of
Orienteering Tasmania’s website has plenty more information on getting to Tasmania. • Accommodation: there are plenty of accommodation options for both Hobart and St Helens listed on the website or through links to other sites. So to find out more about the carnival go to the Orienteering Tasmania website at www.tasorienteering.asn.au and click on the Aus Champs 2005 icon. In addition we will be issuing regular Aus Champs 2005 e-mail bulletins. Send an e-mail to pub.oti@trump.net. au to get on the circulation list. See you in Tassie next year!
Inaugural NT Championships
Badge Event 8, 9 & 10 July 2005
LOC CABAY is Top End Orienteers’ brand new map. On traditional Aboriginal land it’s a mixture of spur-gully and black soil plain, offering fast running through open woodland with little undergrowth. The area features spectacular stromatolite formations and rocky outcrops, BIG termite mounds, cool paperbark swamps (dry in July!), plenty of blue sky and warm sunshine. Don’t be surprised to see the odd bush pig or WW2 relic. The carnival is organised to showcase some of the best that the Top End has to offer, with plenty of time to explore further afield between events. Orienteers going to Europe for major events such as O-Ringen, the Scottish 6-Days or World Masters could readily call in to Darwin on their way. Get Ready Friday – ease into the tropics with a late afternoon warm-up event at Darwin’s East Point. Then take in a fabulous Darwin sunset with a cool drink or two and the odd sausage. Get Set Saturday – look around Darwin or drop into Litchfield National Park. That night roll out a swag and camp under million star skies. Swap tall tales with the locals around the campfire. GO!!! Who will be the first NT Champ?
Some notes from Kevin Vigar, the mapper, are fascinating: “I expected it to be hot - it was, but not unbearably so. What I didn't expect was before I could start mapping the area I would have to bum it. Unseasonably prolonged rain during May had delayed the annual "burn off". Much of the country was still covered with waist-high grass concealing many of the features I wanted to map. The area will provide a fascinating event - the mixture of terrain types creating a variety of orienteering challenges. In itself, it’s interesting from a cultural, historical and geological perspective too. It’s close to Rum Jungle, one of the first places where uranium was mined in Australia and there are scratchings, pits, and mining lease marker pegs dotted about. Vegetation in the Top End is a whole new ball game! Open areas may be still grass covered, because they tend to be swampy and the grass hasn't dried enough to burn, or they may be covered with little hummocks where wild pigs have been uprooting grass to get at the roots. Either way, yellow may well mean slow. The rest of the area will be savannah - or open woodland, which after burning allows for fast running. Most watercourses are dry in the dry season. I found a couple that weren't and these are the only green areas on the map and are to be avoided. I decided to map only the "cathedral" variety of termite mounds - those obviously over 2 metres. I read that they can be as high as 6m. but I only saw them up to about 3.5m. Even so, they are very significant features.”
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