In second place was the father-and-son team of Des and Duncan O'Regan, the latter only 15 years old and already a NZ schools orienteering representative in Australia this year. The pair were only 40 points behind. Douglas Woods with Guy and Emma de Lacey formed the top mixed pair and were fourth overall, while Rachel Smith and Meg Foulds were eighth.
The event was in Torlesse Korowai Park near Porters Pass west of Christchurch, which extends the full length of the Torlesse Range through to the Benmore Range and the event area west of Lake Lyndon. Organiser Grant Hunter will send you a descriptive brochure or you can pick one up from a DOC office. (In office hours...) There were 45 teams and over 100 participants in the compact event, which fitted on a 14X12cm area of the 1:50,000 map.
There are some excellent reports and graphs and of course results on the NZRA website from which we quote a couple of passages:
"A great setting on a gem of a day - fine and clear, a touch of snow from a fall earlier in the week on the background peaks, Lakes Lyndon and Coleridge as blue as blue, and a lightly cooling breeze. That's about as good as it gets." The organiser, Grant Hunter.
"A 9am to 4pm event in mid-summer is an ideal days outing, long enough to want to stop but short enough to ignore the blisters. ...It will probably be the forerunner of an annual summer event, judging by its success." Pete Squires, NZRA president.
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