Jungle Orienteering and Rogaine Event

Orienteering Hutt Valley 26 Sep 10

Course Planners Brian Hallinan (white/yellow) and Ramash Swamy (red/rogaine) assisted by
Weather misty and strong winds at the start/finish, but warm in the jungle; 100% daylight. 24 on the sequence courses and 39 on the rogaine, total 63

Michael comments...
Given that many weeknight rogainers have other weekend sports there was a great turnout in the rogaine section of the Belmont Jungle event, using controls from two red courses and half a dozen extra thrown in to foil obvious loops. Mike Sherwin, Jason Brown and Matt Allen virtually cleaned up the dam side of the course and several of the street controls, as did Luke Paardekooper just 20 points behind. Petone multisporters Al Cross and Jill Westenra were the top mixed team 100 points further back.

There were fewer customers for the fixed order courses. The "jungle" label was deliberate because the terrain is steep and green and we didn't want to pretend otherwise. But it offers practice in handling that "really lost" feeling which crops up less often as you get more experienced. Jason Markham handled the difficult conditions well, and we hope that others improved their skills. Most of the control markers are ribbons and will stay out until the World Rogaine champs in November; if you want to test your skills please ask me for a map and control descriptions.

Some feedback: "Awesome rogaine yesterday" (Keri Devine) and "Thanks for a great event, it was great to be able to get off track, and it was reasonably sheltered from the wind in the bush" (Mike Sherwin).

Results

White 1.25km round the park entrance with a taped route thru the jungle

  1. Amber Riddle and dad, HV, 27-08
  2. Daniel Hallinan (his first solo), HV, 31-28
  3. Nicholas Hallinan and mum, HV, 32-28
Yellow 2km, 150m climb based on the loop track past the Korokoro Dam
  1. Bruce Worsley, HV, 38-56
  2. Alexandra Riddle, HV, 55-45
Red B 3km, steep jungle with passable areas between Percy Reserve waterfall and the top of Maungaraki, beeline distance not terribly relevant in this terrain!
  1. Peter Wood, WN, 61-03
  2. Shamus Morrison, WN, 67-32
  3. Andrew Riddle, HV, 125-00
  4. Jo Swamy, HV, part course
Red A 4km, steep jungle with passable areas between top of Maungaraki and Korokoro Stream, beeline distance not terribly televant in this terrain!
  1. Malcolm Ingham, WN, 93-31
  2. Gillian Ingham, WN, 96-58
  3. Don Locke, WN, 158-00
  4. Simon Rea, HV, 169-45
  5. Molloy X3, WN, part course
  6. William Power, WN, part course
Red B+A, see above
  1. Jason Markham, HV, 38-00+62-00=100-00
  2. Tessa Ramsden, RK, 58-05+85-57=144-02
  3. Liam Drew, HV, 72-10+87-52=160-02
  4. Rachel Ockelford, HV, split not recorded, 186-45
  5. Rob Collier, WN, 67-08+151-52=219-00
Rogaine, 2hrs using both above areas and a few streets between. S=Solo, L=Late
  1. Mike Sherwin, Jason Brown, Matt Allen 1000
  2. Luke Paardekooper, 980-98S =882
  3. Al Cross HV, Miranda, Jill Westenra, 880
  4. Jackie O'Hagan WN, Barryn Westfield HV, 840
  5. Rob Smith, Keri Devine HV, 840
  6. Sue Eastwood, Graeme Silcock HV, 800
  7. Ian Atkinson +3, 740
  8. Marco Renalli HV, Sam Dungey, 740
  9. Fanny Toorenburg and Pip, 740
  10. Paul Abbott, Darryn Gordon, 720
  11. Rob and Nick van der Poel, 680
  12. Mark Hearfield, 680-68S =612
  13. Jenny Visser, Mike Fee, Chris V-F HV, 600
  14. Anna McDonnell, Nic Mitchell HV, 580
  15. Nicole Ranger, Wayne Swan, 560
  16. Kyle Christensen, 640 -30L -61S =549
  17. John Bocock, Graeme Richardson, 540
  18. Andrew Shelley, 440 -44S =396
  19. Brian and Jess, started late, 300
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