Compass Points March-April 2010

In this issue: The last 2 summer series The first 2 OY series Nationals NISS Moonshine 24

Malin Dolden getting a tricky control at the bottom of a steep re- entrant Editorial Rolf rang me up and suggested we do a bit of training for the rogaine. I was reluctant; after all, it seems like cheating, but he assured me that no-one would find out. So we went for a gentle jog.

As our feet meandered, so did the conversation and eventually the topic of how mediocre I was came 1up. Naturally that lead to this magazine and before you know it, Rolf had asked, “Do we need a club magazine?” Now I’m not saying that Rolf wants to bin Com pass Points (though he may bin every issue under the current editor) but it’s a fair ques tion. What function does the magazine serve? What functions do we want it to serve?

As editor, a fair bit of my time is spent copying and pasting results, reformatting them and filling up pages. I don’t mind doing this – it’s mind numbing and I like my mind numb – but I’m acutely aware that it’s also relatively pointless: the results are posted on the club website, often the afternoon of the race. While there’s a certain nostalgia value to looking at how badly you did two months later and finally laughing about it, it doesn’t justify the dead trees. I’d drop results instantly if you told me not to bother.

Therefore what I think the magazine is really about is the articles. Setters’ reports give us a bit of an insight into the creation behind our heroic failures. Not all of us go to every event around the country but we like to hear a local perspective back from those who did. The more bias, the better, I say. Send photos too. And if you want to just write some- thing, go ahead. I’ll print it without shame.

Of course, first I have to get those articles. Steve Armon’s hair turned white chasing items from those who were responsible for writing them. But Steve is conscientious and I’m indolent. If you don’t write them, I won’t print them and I won’t come after you looking for them. And without them, there’s no point publishing.

And then there’s Hawkeye. The demise of The Magpie was greeted with dismay and, like a phoenix from the ashes, there arose a mixed metaphor as confusing as it was point- less. Anyway, we loved those snippets and refused to let them go. But now I know why they went – there are none. It’s not that club members don’t do unfortunate, stupid or legendary things; it’s that no­one bothers to tell me about them. Total contributions to Hawkeye in the last two months = zero. (Actually, I had one of my own but I wasn’t go ing to ruin a perfect average.) I can’t print what I don’t know. So dob in your mates. It’s only fair. Again, send photos.

The ball is now in your court.

The deadline for the next issue is Friday 2 July2010. Send contributions to: [email protected] or [email protected] President’s Report

Most of you will be enjoying the continuing fine spell of weather in Hawke’s Bay when you get this magazine while we traipse around the South Island for four weeks. Some will breathe a sigh of relief that the president has departed, albeit temporarily, as it means no shoulder tapping for a month and others are concerned as the gaping void leaves a rudderless ship that they have to steer – but fear not for I still have email! In our usual inimitable style, we were late leaving HB and have already altered our plans to lurch across Cook Strait a day later. If only the family were as excited about going orienteering as they are about caravanning in the SI for a month!

It is great to have so many turn up to our events at Craggy Range and Smedley Station. Many of us got more than good value for money with the courses at Smedley in particular as the gorge systems and low visibility claimed their vic- tims. Many of us made basic errors or chose unwise routes that cost time.

Looking at our current membership figures, we look to be heading towards similar member numbers that we have had for the past three years. If our club is going to remain static in terms of membership, we will have to ask ourselves if there is more we can do to improve the orienteering experience for our members. I think we have come a long way in the past two years with the introduction of sport ident and the results side of things but perhaps we need to now work on the more public face of Hawke’s Bay Orienteering Club and improve our interaction with the non orienteering public.

I think the Deborah Turner Memorial Rogaine is one event that we can use to at- tract people to the sport. One area we have not attempted to draw on is the moun- tain bike orienteering and with one of the largest MTB clubs in New Zealand in the Bay, we are missing an opportunity to grow our club. If anyone is interested in running some MTBO events next year, please contact the committee.

Finally, congratulations to those nominated at the HB Sports awards (Derek Mor- rison for Coach of the Year, Hamish Goodwin for Masters Sports Person of the Year and Napier Boys’ High School2 for Junior Team of the Year) and good luck. Chris Anderson Park — Naomi Anderson

It was my first course that I had ever set but I was extremely thank- ful for having Hugh as my vetter; I couldn‛t have asked for anyone better. He was very understanding as I had to work every day after school so it3 was hard trying to find a time for us both to go check out Anderson Park. I was very grateful as Hugh would pick me up from school and drive us to Anderson Park where we ran again and checked out the whole thing to then plan the loops.

When we were checking out a site where we were thinking about put- ting a control, we found an old control that was left from the last event! We decided to leave it where it was and use it again. After the trip to Anderson Park I then went home and set both the loops and the white course.

I asked my boss if I could have the afternoon off work for the day of my course but I was unable to get any time off. I was feeling ex- tremely guilty as I felt like Hugh was doing most of the work. I was unable to get to the event until half and hour before it started! I am so grateful as my Dad offered to leave his work early to help Hugh put out the controls. By the time I got there, Dad and Hugh had put out all of the controls which I felt so bad about because I didn‛t arrive quickly enough to help, however I then did go out and check every- thing was in the right place.

Everyone came with a hiss and a roar and before I knew it, it was all over. I can‛t describe in words how thankful I was for all of the help from the people that offered to help collect controls as it was getting dark and cold; my family for the support and help of running it, as I was unable to get there when I hoped I could have; and most of all Hugh - he was amazing and I can‛t thank him enough. Without him go- ing above and beyond what he should have done, this event would have never happened so thank you. Anderson Park results 50 Anna Stimpson 38:34 Loop (99) 3.4 km 51 Colwyn Forlong-Ford 38:38 1 Ondrej Kriz 24:14 52 Paula Lobb 38:52 2 Bradley Ivory 24:25 53 Ross Stone 39:01 3 Ove Oksvold 24:37 54 Nancy Crawshaw 39:05 4 Cairn Coghill 24:56 55 Jarrod Lobb 39:15 5 Connor Alsleben 25:04 56 Georgia Lock 40:02 6 Campbell Edmonds 25:09 57 Katherine Rybinski 40:34 7 Sean Morrison 25:51 58 Laurence de Burgh 40:52 8 Holly Edmonds 26:28 59 Siobhan Murphy 40:58 9 David Barclay 27:10 59 Miranda Dowding 40:58 10 Georgia Wedd 27:26 61 Jasmine Lock 40:59 11 Chris McDonald 28:02 62 Brandon Jones 41:16 12 Rolf Boswell 28:18 63 Rebecca Matthews 41:25 13 Natalie de Burgh 28:31 64 Glen Stone 41:48 14 Frank Svec 28:54 65 Helen Edmonds 42:01 15 John Craven 29:01 66 Robbie Love 42:25 16 Stephan Alsleben 29:26 67 Isabella Radovanovich 42:42 17 Sarah Davidson 29:34 68 Alex Ross-Smith 43:45 18 Geoff Morrison 30:48 69 Callum Williamson 44:24 19 Heather Jones 30:57 70 Callum Wilkie 44:36 20 Grant Edmonds 31:13 71 Olivia Radovanovich 44:39 21 Tim Barclay 31:23 72 Kendra Monteith 44:40 22 Alan Davidson 31:27 73 Kelly Mulvay 44:42 23 Richard Dyer 31:50 74 Philip Baker 44:46 24 Megan Davidson 32:02 75 Alex Dyer 44:47 25 Sarah Baxter 32:28 76 Molly Moore 44:52 26 Paul Jones 32:56 77 Melissa Giddens 45:28 27 Anne Creagh 33:01 78 Georgia Creagh 45:29 28 Pamela Morrison 33:02 79 Aimee Lobb 45:52 29 Callum Ross 33:17 80 Hannah Jones 45:56 30 Liam Hurst 33:20 81 Brona Turley 47:41 31 Justin Alsleben 33:29 82 Gavin Andrews 49:13 32 Reuben King 34:25 83 Greer Whiting 49:25 33 Nicola Law 34:56 84 Gaye Evans-Love 50:38 34 Monieka Scott 34:57 85 Marie Jones 51:26 35 Paul Reynolds 35:03 86 Tiffany Reynolds 52:03 36 Freddie Stoddart 35:10 87 Alice Lumsden 52:33 37 Steve Armon 35:40 88 Laura Tong 52:56 38 Faye McDonald 35:41 89 Nerys Jones 55:16 39 Jane Davidson 35:47 90 Tim Creagh 56:18 40 Malin Dolden 36:17 91 Natasha King 59:38 41 Norumn Oyen 36:22 92 Rebecca Manson 1:02:37 42 Devon Beckman 36:23 93 Emma Pullen 1:04:01 43 Jennie Barrett 36:49 94 Anthony Graham 1:07:42 44 Brayden Stone 37:01 95 Caitlin Jones 1:07:58 45 Zivana Donnelly 37:13 Molly DAth mp 46 Sue Stone 37:44 Emma Drew mp 47 Brianna Massie 38:11 4Kim Creagh mp 48 James Allcock 38:22 Bailey Sims mp 49 David Fisher 38:32 Anderson Park results 22 Jessica Kite 21:09 White (44) 1.8 km 23 Oliver Lock 21:24 1 Mark Woods 14:49 24 Jake McNally 22:10 2 Laura Branch 15:17 25 Nicola Stubbs 23:40 3 Nicole Waldron 15:28 26 Casey Hales 24:29 4 Chelsea Peters 15:38 27 Mitchell Jones 26:26 5 Bayley Stephens 15:46 28 Amara Fox 26:28 6 Vida Fox 16:44 29 JJ Brits 26:31 7 Alexander5 Radovanovich 17:18 30 Blair Whiting 26:44 8 Juan Lewis 18:18 31 Sarah Tong 27:03 9 Aaron Bryant 18:53 32 Rhuaridh Williamson 27:26 10 Anthony Graham 18:54 33 Regan Singer 27:29 11 Angel King 19:05 34 Andrew Tong 27:40 12 Jason Bryant 19:06 35 Marcus Hurst 27:54 13 Taylor Harrison 19:18 36 Emma Boswell 28:30 14 Melissa Oliver 19:32 37 Blake Boswell 28:37 15 Dominic Andrews 19:35 38 Brenna Montieth 28:47 16 Cameron Anderson 19:43 39 Rachel Blane 29:01 17 Loren Crossan 19:46 40 Olivia Martin 30:42 18 Samantha Agnew 19:52 41 Conor Parkhill 33:19 19 Wiremu Abraham 20:05 42 Taylor Hales 36:10 20 Abby Oliver 20:26 43 Willow Sims 36:53 21 Jasmine Ngan-Sue 20:45 44 Jade Gordon 49:09

Stoney Creek Results Catherine Howell mp Orange (28) Pamela Morrison mp 1 Andrew Bott 24:09 Hamish Goodwin mp 2 Rolf Boswell 25:34 Murray Harty mp 3 Campbell Edmonds 25:49 Yellow (15) 4 Geoff Morrison 26:59 1 Sarah Davidson 24:40 5 Hugh Forlong-Ford 33:30 2 Peter Hone 37:10 6 Phillip Herries 33:55 3 Kim Creagh 44:09 7 Catherine Clark 35:34 4 Helen Howell 48:58 8 Derek Morrison 37:21 5 Glen Stone 49:17 9 Grant Edmonds 40:32 6 Susan Hone 50:01 10 Blake Hone 41:25 7 JJ Brits 51:03 11 Marie Jones 44:08 8 James Allcock 51:47 12 Sarah Baxter 45:42 9 Annie Creagh 53:31 13 Rob McDonald 47:15 10 Brayden Stone 54:40 14 David Fisher 47:29 Georgia Creagh mp 15 Jasmine Lock 47:42 Megan Davidson mp 16 Freddie Stoddart 47:46 Anne Baxter mp 17 Monieka Scott 51:24 Wiremu Abraham mp 18 Alan Berry 55:05 Jane Herries mp 19 Jane Davidson 55:49 White (5) 20 Ashleigh White 58:16 1 Charlie Bogard 25:49 Alan Davidson mp 2 Caroline Howell 35:45 Sean Morrison mp 3 Tania Campbell 47:48 Callum Herries mp Emma Boswell mp Faye McDonald mp Blake Boswell mp Stoney Creek Report—Stephen Alsleben

Stoney Creek Ranch! What can I say? I started out full of brimstone and fire and ended up somewhat bewildered.

I canvassed Connor and Justin to see if they were interested in helping out with the course setting. Initially only Connor was interested but after receiving the ocd map and condes access the activity and discussion that this generated must have been infectious and Justin came on board.

Connor and I received some condes training from Chris and we were instant ex- perts in course setting - not!!!. We set out a white course and then visited the Ranch to check it out and also appraise ourselves of the site in general with a view to setting two other courses - a mid length and a you-beaut-long one. Two visits sorted these out so it was time to bring in the vetter.

The white had its deficiencies but was close in most respects to the map used on the day. However, the other courses that went to print bear no relationship to what we planned. As far as I am concerned I have lots to learn although I suspect my time is best deployed elsewhere.

A sincere thanks to those people to helped out on the day. Thanks to the Howell’s for the few moments of respite offered at their home prior to the final pre-event rush. And of course a big thanks to those of you who turned up despite the pros- pects of inclement weather. The chatter in the hall afterwards suggested that most of you enjoyed the evening despite the positioning of the control "UNDER" the bridge and the other "INSIDE" the tree.

Thank you also to Rolf Boswell and his tribe who helped clean out the Hall on Sunday morning and to Blake and his mate who collected many of the controls for us before our early morning arrival.

On the night....Connor was a little bemused with Derek Morrison's approach prior to commencement. Having extracted the course map from the bag at the start he then declared that he needed to go to the toilet and took his map with him. On the other hand Shaun Morrison was keen to cover so much ground he ran off the map - maybe our 5.5km course would6 have suited him. As for Alan Davidson the event confirmed his night vision problems are not conducive to night time orien- teering and he best suited to a supporting role. Frimley Report—Harriet Baxter Having been challenged with setting a course on the unfamiliar Napier hill map last year when I was asked to set on the Frimley map I said, “Yes,” especially as it was a map I was familiar with and close to home. Seeing this was my second course I knew how to use Condes and with a couple of hours going around the control sites7 with my vetter, Mark Irwin, we had three loops and a white course ready to send to the printers.

We started putting controls out and setting up straight after school. We had it all ready for when the first eager competitors arrived at quarter to six. It all went fairly smoothly apart from a few issues with batteries for the computers but, with the help of a few steady hands, we soon got it up and running again. Thank you to everyone who waited patiently while we resolved the issue.

I would like to thank Mark for all his help and Pamela for her advice to remove a few controls making it shorter and more enjoyable for many. I would also like to thank Lynette and Grace Irwin for their help in the caravan. Thanks to Mum who found the event more stressful than me and Sarah for her help checking and col- lecting controls. Finally I would like to thank the 140+ people that came and ran.

Frimley Park Results 22 Derek Morrison 23:12 Loop 2.7 km 23 Paige Heavey 23:14 1 Cameron Massie 15:28 24 Justin Alsleben 23:44 2 Duncan Morrison 15:42 25 Grant Edmonds 23:51 3 Brett Sceats 15:58 26 Stephan Alsleben 23:52 4 Andrew Bott 16:38 27 Alan Davidson 24:01 5 Bradley Ivory 17:15 28 Pamela Morrison 24:04 6 Rita Homes 17:18 29 Natalie de Burgh 24:38 7 Pearson Williams 17:20 29 Sam Clark 24:38 8 Callum Herries 17:27 31 Sarah Davidson 24:50 9 Ondrej Kriz 18:09 32 Faye McDonald 24:56 10 Cairn Coghill 18:22 33 Tim Anderson 25:05 11 Tom Harrison 18:53 34 Hamish Duncan 25:16 12 Craig Sceats 19:14 35 Megan Davidson 25:18 13 Hugh Forlong-Ford 19:30 36 David Barclay 25:24 14 Phillip Herries 20:13 37 Frank Busch 25:31 15 Campbell Edmonds 21:06 38 Kelly Mulvay 25:55 16 Naomi Anderson 21:07 39 Zane Tomalin 25:57 17 Connor Alsleben 21:15 40 Aimee Lobb 26:22 18 John Craven 22:04 41 Russell Dodd 26:34 19 Tim Barclay 22:16 42 Gavin Andrews 26:40 20 Samuel Clarke-Winiata 22:29 43 Molly Moore 26:45 21 Murray Richardson 22:34 44 Brayden Stone 27:26 45 Annie Creagh 27:32 95 Jack Hay 57:36 46 Jane Davidson 27:43 96 Melita Busch 1:02:35 47 Richard Seymour 27:48 97 William Duncan 1:04:31 48 Brett Webber 27:56 98 Juan Lewis 1:05:36 49 Jasmine Lock 28:04 99 Anthony Graham 1:06:53 50 Stephen Kilgour 28:06 100 Annalise Hastings 1:27:19 51 Neil Dent 28:14 Bailey Sims mp 52 Sue Stone 28:21 Jake McNally mp 53 Jennie Barrett 29:04 Melissa Giddens mp 53 Monieka Scott 29:04 Emma Buttle mp 55 Emma Pullen 29:06 White 1.4 km 0 C 56 Bev Harrison 29:07 1 Liam Hurst 8:06 57 Zivana Donnelly 29:09 1 Georgia Lock 8:06 58 Laurence de Burgh 29:36 3 Allison Stephens 8:19 59 Kim Creagh 29:56 4 Alexander Radovanovic 8:30 60 Brent Symes 30:33 5 Jason Bryant 8:33 61 Grace Irwin 30:38 6 Laura Langley 8:56 62 Malin Dolden 30:45 7 Hannah Searle 9:21 63 Jane Herries 30:48 7 Oliver Lock 9:21 64 Alan Berry 31:06 9 Siena Harrison 9:27 65 Vida Fox 33:42 10 Laura Branch 9:34 66 Nic Radovanovic 33:58 11 Caleb Higgs 9:46 66 Mark Watts 33:58 12 Brittany Etheridge 9:48 68 Olivia Radovanovic 33:59 13 Tiffany Reynolds 9:52 69 Georgia Creagh 34:36 14 Adam Trevelyan 9:54 70 Alice Lumsden 35:55 15 Rebecca Manson 10:02 71 Julia Smith 36:13 16 Nick Searle 10:06 72 Robbie Love 36:18 17 Brenna Monteith 10:15 73 Gaye Evans-Love 36:29 18 Abby Oliver 10:34 74 Angus Lindsay 36:40 19 Samantha Agnew 10:59 75 Rebecca Matthews 37:18 20 Caitlin McRae 11:13 76 Mel Kilgour 38:09 21 Mark Cook 11:16 77 Harry Dent 38:21 22 Melody Bryant 11:35 78 Helen Howell 38:46 23 Paula Searle 11:41 79 Ross Stone 38:52 24 Michael Chappell 11:50 80 John McNally 39:38 25 Willow Sims 11:55 81 Vaughan Sceats 40:18 26 Erica Stephens 12:12 82 Amanda Hill 40:32 27 Kelly Riddell 12:32 83 Miranda Dowding 41:30 28 Rita Campbell 12:37 84 Anna Stimpson 41:38 29 Regan Singer 12:38 85 Harry Evans 42:16 30 Alice Wake 13:13 86 Caroline Howell 42:54 31 Rhuaridh Williamson 13:18 87 Callum Williamson 43:01 32 Kendra Monteith 14:20 88 Isabella Radovanovic 43:38 33 Hannah St Clair 15:01 89 Glen Stone 46:04 34 Molly Lee 16:22 90 Jesse Barraclough 46:13 35 Amara Fox 16:49 91 Rhiannon Forlong-Ford 47:09 36 Rob Duncan 19:57 92 Barbara Duncan 48:23837 Conor Parkhill 20:25 93 Angel King 51:30 38 Tania Campbell 21:49 94 Finn Roberts 57:29 39 Carly Sims 27:14 Te Awanga Report—Cameron Massie

As Te Awanga was to be my first course as setter, naturally it caused a bit of a panic. I had no idea what to do as everything seemed to need access to the internet, which isn't easy to find in the hostel. So after hitting Mr Forlong-Ford up and only giv- ing him one option, I had the use of the computer and, usually, his enthusiasm.9 After talking to Rob, we found an area which hadn't been used much and wasn't over grown with blackberry. The huge workload I imagined didn't seem so hectic as the courses were reasonably drawn and sent to Rob. This then resulted in a lot of discussion, mainly about the yellow, and a few changes were made to include the different parts of the map.

We started putting the controls out on Friday night and employed a driver to cart controls around, which proved to be really quick (besides almost getting stuck and resisting the temptation to chase the wild beasties which were everywhere.)

Unfortunately, I couldn't be there on the day but luckily I had some amazing helpers (Bradley) putting the hours in. A big thanks to Rob who made everything so easy and made the event run so well.

Te Awanga Results 22 Kevin Osborne 1:51:01 Red Medium (27) 4.0 km 17 C Blake Hone mp 1 Hamish Goodwin 44:16 Tui Craven mp 2 Rita Homes 46:33 Alan Davidson mp 3 Ove Oksvold 50:03 Norris Cox mp 4 Andrew Bott 52:41 Mark Irwin mp 5 Geoff Morrison 54:07 6 Derek Morrison 56:07 Red Short (29) 2.8 km 11 C 7 Chris Howell 1:00:27 1 Ken Holst 45:41 8 Murray Harty 1:02:56 2 Sean Morrison 51:53 9 Callum Herries 1:02:57 3 Heather Jones 55:39 10 Sarah Anderson 1:04:30 4 Katie Eames 57:52 11 Bradley Ivory 1:04:32 5 Sarah Baxter 1:00:07 12 Campbell Edmonds 1:06:01 6 Tim Barclay 1:03:45 13 Z Shared 1:08:27 7 Catherine Clark 1:04:48 14 Brett Sceats 1:08:40 8 Naomi Anderson 1:05:36 15 John Craven 1:17:12 9 Faye McDonald 1:05:47 16 Phillip Herries 1:19:55 10 Tim Anderson 1:08:13 17 David Fisher 1:24:11 11 Colin Jones 1:09:11 18 Craig Pearce 1:27:22 12 Sarah Davidson 1:09:39 19 Murray Richardson 1:28:38 13 Nicole Jones 1:11:04 20 Grant Edmonds 1:31:33 14 Megan Davidson 1:13:12 21 Jon Eames 1:39:19 15 Elise Yule 1:13:47 16 Alan Berry 1:13:51 Yellow (45) 2.2 km 11 C 17 Rob Poulgrain 1:14:14 1 Angus Fuhrer 27:33 18 Marcus Yule 1:14:18 2 Matt Wilkie 30:50 19 Kate Hensman 1:17:47 3 Kenneth Muir 32:12 20 Catherine Howell 1:27:09 4 Hamish Muir 32:45 21 Madeleine Parker 1:30:46 5 Vaughan Sceats 32:50 22 Jane Davidson 1:51:19 6 Nathanael Hinton 33:50 23 Paul Steeds 1:51:49 7 Miranda Dowding 34:09 24 Susan Hone 1:53:08 8 John Lumsden 36:24 25 Stewart Hyslop 1:59:31 9 Jeannie Ward 37:42 26 Philip Baker 2:01:49 10 Jarrod Lobb 38:16 Peter Hill mp 11 Sue Stone 38:33 Pamela Morrison mp 12 Brayden Stone 38:42 Jane Herries mp 13 Nick Searle 38:57 14 Vida Fox 39:58 Orange (33) 3.0 km 12 C 15 Marie Jones 40:54 1 Ondrej Kriz 40:04 16 Peter Culham 42:12 2 Frank Svec 43:41 17 Rebecca Matthews 43:50 3 Graeme Sunnex 48:50 18 Ross Stone 43:56 4 Jarred Hone 57:05 19 Glen Stone 46:04 5 Justin Alsleben 58:13 20 Blair Whiting 46:23 6 Ryan Hone 1:01:03 21 Brandon Jones 46:34 7 Connor Alsleben 1:02:12 22 Callum Williamson 47:12 8 Hamish Hull 1:04:15 23 Millie Costley 47:29 9 Gary Gregory 1:06:09 24 Mary Dent 48:12 10 Henry Porter 1:06:28 25 Te Rimene Workman 48:21 11 Peter Hensman 1:07:34 26 Angus Lindsay 48:27 12 Thomas Hensman 1:09:32 27 Georgia Lock 49:28 13 Harrison Gregory 1:11:42 28 Thomas Culham 49:41 14 Sarah Cornes 1:15:57 29 William Duncan 52:40 15 Jasmine Lock 1:16:17 30 Heath Dinneen 52:57 16 Emma Pullen 1:20:15 31 Harry Dent 54:12 17 Kai Steinmann 1:20:41 32 Anna Coppelmans 1:00:36 18 Anne Baxter 1:28:03 33 Barbara Duncan 1:02:24 19 Marie Bell 1:31:06 34 Brett Mercer 1:02:57 20 Malin Dolden 1:34:31 35 Debbie Taylor 1:05:00 21 Hamish Duncan 1:41:15 36 Angel King 1:13:29 22 Peter Hone 1:42:08 37 Rose Copplemans 1:14:42 23 Nathalie Sorensen 1:49:06 38 Laura Tong 1:19:20 24 Aimee Lobb 2:06:04 Greer Whiting mp 25 Amber Helliwell 2:07:07 Alice Lumsden mp 26 Robbie Love 2:23:12 Mitch Webber mp 27 Steven Johnston 2:40:03 Mel Kilgour mp Frank Busch mp Stephen Kilgour mp Stephan Alsleben mp Rei Jones mp David Barclay mp Gaye Evans-Love mp Molly Moore mp Michael Helliwell10 mp Andrew Mitchell mp 18 Kaya Shlomi 26:17 White (35) 1.9 km 13 C 19 Loren Crossan 27:24 1 Bayley Stephens 15:37 20 Andrew Tong 29:31 2 Caleb Higgs 16:57 21 Mitchell Jones 29:57 3 Rory Ward 19:21 22 Peter Hayfield 32:04 4 Alex Ross-Smith 19:38 23 Alice Chappell 35:49 5 Kendra Monteith 19:41 24 Oliver Lock 36:15 6 Callum Dewsnap 19:44 25 Zoe Clinnick 36:40 7 Taylor 11Harrison 20:12 26 Hannah Searle 36:47 8 Laura Branch 20:26 27 Natasha O'Neill 37:31 9 Melita Busch 20:53 28 Amara Fox 38:31 10 Yvonne Rothwell 21:51 29 Isabelle Steinmann 46:29 11 Cameron Cook 22:52 30 Charlie Bogard 48:54 12 Siena Harrison 23:00 31 Rob Duncan 50:36 13 Jack Hay 24:08 32 Rhuaridh Williamson 51:30 14 Paula Searle 25:16 33 Sarah Tong 1:02:16 15 Melissa Oliver 25:57 Luke Smiley mp 15 Aidan Dewsnap 25:57 Nick Searle dnf 17 Laura Matthews 26:12 OY1 Craggy Range Report—Jaime Goodwin

When setting all the courses on the Craggy Range map, my goal was to test everyone in as many ways as possible. The physical nature of the map meant that it would be a tough day in the office for most and I tried to incorporate as much route choice as possible. The actual control sites were hardly difficult or hidden, there just tended to be five massive, cliff-ridden gullies between you and your next control!

The Saturday before the event Hamish and I went out to the map. It was an amazingly hot day and the combination of long, dry grass and Dad’s pedantic ways meant that we spent a massive day trudging around to every control site and about half as many “possible” ones. We attacked each control from twenty different angles and double-checked Rach’s mapping skills, which I have to say, were pretty damn awesome!

When we were done checking the first half of the map we moved into the big block of pines. I originally had several controls in there, but after bashing through blackberry and thinnings, Dad suggested we “sit down for five minutes and come up with a better idea”. Half my life later, we had sorted it out that there would be one common control in the trees that was pretty easy to get to and there shouldn’t be too many fatalities by putting it there!

I got the maps printed during the week and somehow my red long course had been crammed onto an A4 sheet. Ham and I didn’t like the look of that, as Dad said, “the old farts won’t be able to read anything!” so we had to get them re-printed. (If anyone wants a souvenir red long approximately 1:15,000 map, see me!) Apart from that there were no real dramas and we were all set to put out controls on the Saturday before the event.

Putting controls out was much fun, as it always is. (Again, we attacked every control site from twenty different angles, just in case we had estimated the height of the controls to be a bit bigger or smaller). Dad dug the toilet and worked out which controls he had to put out in the morning, other- wise the cattle would have eaten them!

We set off home to a can of coke and listened as the rain began to fall . . .

The day was wet and windy and pretty miserable. I was excited. Just another element to my master plan in testing everyone! I unfortunately didn’t arrive till around 1pm but I did see my fair share of wet and muddy orienteers! I got a huge buzz at the number of people who were huddled in groups in the hay barn, discussing leg 4 to 5 or explaining their “massive mistake, which cost twenty min utes.” As a course setter it’s awesome to see people challenging themselves and improving their orienteering. Also, I got another huge buzz at the number of thank-yous I received. It made all the hours I put in, totally worth it! A huge thanks to Hamish, my vetter and the Scott family, who put on a classy act in the caravan! As well as Rachel for her many hours mapping. Also to mum and Pamela who manned the computer and the Alsleben’s and Moneika who collected in controls. Lastly to Ken for rescuing poor Richard Lynn and to Faye – who is a super-star – who ran the start while Dad went to help on the rescue mission. I hope everyone had heaps of fun and that Richard mends quickly! 12 Thanks! Craggy Range Results 18 Naomi Anderson 1:14:39 19 Alan Berry 1:16:22 20 Kelly Mulvay 1:16:23 Red Long (9) 8.2 km 17 C 21 Rob McDonald 1:16:26 1 Duncan Morrison 1:19:22 22 Zivana Donnelly 1:17:39 2 Rita Homes 1:33:53 23 Sarah Baxter 1:18:14 3 Andrew Bott 1:37:13 24 Hamish Hull 1:18:28 4 Chris Howell 1:41:16 25 Rob Poulgrain 1:20:09 5 Geoff Morrison 1:44:18 26 Harriet Baxter 1:20:24 6 Rolf Boswell13 1:44:38 27 Heather Jones 1:27:27 7 Chris McDonald 1:52:49 28 Sarah Davidson 1:33:06 8 Phillip Herries 1:59:18 29 Catherine Howell 1:34:34 9 Hrobarova Lanka 2:15:21 30 Ryan Calder 1:35:03 31 Abby Temple 1:35:14 Red Medium (22) 5.5 km 11 C 32 Paul Steeds 1:35:50 1 Arne Oyen 1:06:02 33 Nicole Jones 1:35:58 2 Ove Oksvold 1:10:29 34 Emma Pullen 1:37:19 3 Cairn Coghill 1:16:38 35 Tui Craven 1:55:37 4 Bradley Ivory 1:20:25 Susan Hone mp 5 Brett Sceats 1:21:02 Kate Hensman mp 6 John Craven 1:24:17 Sharon Mardon mp 7 Mark Irwin 1:26:54 Jane Davidson mp 8 Derek Morrison 1:27:37 Lyn Helliwell mp 9 Paul Jones 1:32:59 Norumn Oyen mp 10 Murray Harty 1:34:02 Kent Parker mp 11 Grant Edmonds 2:01:14 Richard Lynn dnf 12 David Fisher 2:07:55 13 Colin Jones 2:12:32 Orange (41) 3.6 km 10 C 14 Tim Anderson 2:17:26 1 Graeme Sunnex 40:09 15 Norris Cox 2:19:28 2 Connor Alsleben 43:23 16 Murray Richardson 2:25:21 3 Ondrej Kriz 48:38 17 Peter Watson 2:54:56 4 Russell Dodd 49:54 Steve Armon mp 5 Fergus Bramley 51:43 Campbell Edmonds mp 6 Monieka Scott 55:51 James McCaughan mp 7 Jarred Hone 56:24 Jane Herries mp 8 Angus Logan 57:48 Ashleigh White mp 9 Mirek Horak 58:32 10 Henry Porter 58:42 Red Short (43) 3.2 km 8 C 11 Gary Gregory 1:00:10 1 Callum Herries 43:01 12 Catherine Sambrook 1:01:24 2 Marcus Yule 48:58 13 Harrison Gregory 1:02:54 3 Hugh Forlong-Ford 51:40 14 Stephan Alsleben 1:03:17 4 Sean Morrison 56:30 15 Justin Alsleben 1:07:16 5 Ken Holst 57:27 16 Georgia Lindsay 1:08:26 6 Craig Sceats 57:31 17 Peter Hone 1:08:33 7 Holly Edmonds 1:04:12 18 Michael Helliwell 1:08:59 8 Alastair Bramley 1:04:14 19 Sarah Cornes 1:09:58 9 Nan Karlsson 1:05:01 20 Alan Davidson 1:11:23 10 Pamela Morrison 1:05:43 21 Megan Davidson 1:13:30 11 Greg Edmonds 1:06:15 22 Hannah Jones 1:17:32 12 Natalie de Burgh 1:08:51 23 Nicola Mulvay 1:17:53 13 Madeleine Parker 1:09:19 24 Thomas Hensman 1:18:26 14 Tim Barclay 1:09:30 25 Jade Gilling-Goldberg 1:25:44 15 Catherine Clark 1:13:28 26 Helen Edmonds 1:25:46 16 Roger Mulvay 1:13:44 27 Miranda Dowding 1:33:02 17 Faye McDonald 1:14:34 28 Jasmine Loch 1:35:23 40 Callum Williamson 1:08:06 29 Malin Dolden 1:36:53 41 Blair Whiting 1:09:15 30 Anne Baxter 1:39:49 42 Melita Busch 1:10:02 31 Charlotte Weeks 1:39:54 43 Angus Lindsay 1:11:29 32 Aimee Lobb 1:48:30 44 Caitlin Jones 1:14:59 33 Bev Harrison 2:02:37 45 Gaye Evans-Love 1:16:11 34 Steven Johnston 2:08:11 46 William Duncan 1:18:55 Barrie de Burgh mp 47 Rob Duncan 1:26:05 Colwyn Forlong-Ford mp 48 Patricia Larsen 1:26:55 Troy Abraham mp Lesley Sceats mp David Barclay mp Vaughan Sceats mp Hamish Duncan mp James Allcock mp Liffey Rimmer mp Laura Matthews mp Peter Hensman mp Antony Steiner mp Paul Reynolds mp Yellow (60) 2.7 km 12 C Rei Jones mp 1 Peter Edwards 32:23 Kim Creagh mp 2 Brianna Massie 35:51 Neil Dent mp 3 Freddie Stoddart 38:15 Amy Corkery mp 4 Marie Jones 40:21 Gavin Andrews mp 5 Jules Dodd 41:59 Anna Stimpson mp 6 John Lumsden 42:31 7 Matt Stone 42:33 White (32) 2.6 km 13 C 8 Ryan Hone 43:04 1 Taylor Harrison 30:53 9 Ross Stone 43:54 2 Caroline Howell 31:44 10 Grant Husband 44:54 3 Norumn Halvor 33:37 11 Annie Creagh 46:18 4 Tom Edwards 33:47 12 Stephen Matthews 47:40 5 Angela Sunnex 33:48 13 Zoe Clinnick 47:48 6 Kelly Sunnex 34:01 14 Grace Irwin 47:54 7 Sienna Harrison 36:19 15 Georgia Creagh 48:49 8 Monique Yule 36:25 16 Greer Whiting 48:56 9 James Weeks 38:01 17 Alice Lumsden 48:59 10 Mark Woods 39:04 18 Brayden Stone 49:16 11 Oliver Lock 39:41 19 Rebecca Matthews 49:43 12 Aaron Bryant 40:15 20 Jarrod Lobb 49:51 13 Yvonne Rothwell 40:16 21 Craig Law 50:25 14 Jason Bryant 42:06 22 Helen Howell 50:27 15 Amy Wolland 42:49 23 Georgia Lock 50:45 16 Molly Lee 49:32 24 John Edwards 51:21 17 Brittany Etheridge 51:43 25 Amber Helliwell 51:24 18 Laura Branch 52:09 26 Georgia Richardson 52:35 19 Callum Dewsnap 54:33 27 Nathanael Hinton 53:13 20 Loren Crossan 56:04 28 Rhiannon Forlong-Ford 55:11 21 Mary Dent 59:41 29 Robbie Love 55:47 22 Mitchell Jones 1:00:24 30 Laurence de Burgh 56:09 23 John McNally 1:01:07 31 Nicola Law 56:19 24 Hannah St Clair 1:01:10 32 Duncan Spall 56:25 25 Jake McNally 1:04:01 33 Isabelle Steinmann 58:01 26 Tiffany Reynolds 1:07:14 34 Luke Smiley 58:25 27 Rhuaridh Williamson 1:11:16 35 Sue Stone 58:28 28 Nicole Waldron 1:18:11 36 Brandon Jones 59:27 29 Chloe Hazelgrove 1:25:57 37 Glen Stone 59:28 Kaya Shlomi mp 38 Harry Dent 14 59:50 Dan Jones mp 39 Katherine Rybinski 1:00:05 Harry Evans mp Rochfort—Heather Jones

The phone call came, I couldn’t think of a way to say no, so I chose the middle of the school holidays, for- getting that there was the North Island Secondary School champs to organize a school team for as well. Holidays-15 what are they? Not being the most organized of people, Term one was flying by and Easter was ap- proaching fast. With numerous phone calls and ques- tions to other competitors at club events, I slowly worked out the main parts of the setter’s job.

By mid march and with stress levels climbing, I sat down and tried to sort out some possible routes. Then it was time to see if the paper work was anything like reality. On the first visit it didn’t look too bad, the start was fine, but the parking area could take out the underbelly of a vehicle and the finish would be a nightmare for a white course. So back to the drawing board, now a computer, and Derek and I had a midnight session to improve and iron out the wrinkles. Derek was invaluable in showing me the intricacies of course setting; approach angles, exit lines, route choices etc, although I have to confess most of it went over my head and the parts of the courses you hated and were wrong; those bits were my fault.

Yet more phone calls and questions and Easter had ar- rived; one week to go and decision time was looming. Marie and I went out and tried to deliver the wine, on Good Friday, to the landowners, but they were all on holiday, so we went and checked out the changes that had been made to the course. Having forgotten to take lunch and with only one water bottle, it was two tired and parched bodies, with socks and shoes that looked and felt like porcupines, that dragged ourselves to the finish. At this point we found out there was a new fence along the road where we were going to have our finish control. More changes were needed. More phone calls. David Fisher came to the rescue, sorted out the map changes, the control changes, gave advice and sent out the finished maps to the printers on the first day back after Easter so they would be ready for the weekend. Derek came back from the nationals, got Duncan to sort out the computer entries and on the Saturday, Derek, Marie and I took the caravan up to Rockfort (I can’t back a trailer in a straight line). At the road end we are met with the sight of a mob of cattle being herded into the finish paddock. Paul, the manager of Brown- rigg’s, who lease the land, then went and removed them at the end of the day so we wouldn’t have to worry about them.

Sunday was warm and sunny and I really appreciated eve- ryone’s help to make the day run smoothly. A pity about the blackberry, it’s growing like a triffid and soon most of the gullies will be impassable. Thank you to all the people who helped out, both on the day and over the preceding months. You are all amazing and your support has been fantastic. And yes,I did finally de- liver the wine, although I had to leave a note attached on one doorstep.

Rochfort Results 5 Sarah Anderson 1:10:42 Red Long (12) 5.0 km 19 C 6 Murray Harty 1:12:32 1 Duncan Morrison 50:22 7 James McCaughan 1:12:43 2 Cameron Massie 54:03 8 Natalie de Burgh 1:13:32 3 Ove Oksvold 58:33 9 Steve Armon 1:18:40 4 Hamish Goodwin 1:01:59 10 Hugh Forlong-Ford 1:24:50 5 Sam Eames 1:03:40 11 Tim Anderson 1:37:04 6 Chris Howell 1:07:57 12 Blake Hone 1:38:57 7 Hrobarova Lenka 1:12:26 13 Alan Berry 1:40:23 8 Phillip Herries 1:13:35 14 Kevin Osborne 1:54:31 9 Andrew Bott 1:18:29 15 Colin Jones 1:58:11 10 Amber Morrison 1:18:41 16 Alan Davidson 2:12:23 11 Kevin McCarthy 1:41:04 Campbell Edmonds mp Neville Smith mp Georgia Wedd mp

Red Medium (18) 3.9 km 13 C Red Short (30) 2.9 km 10 C 1 Callum Herries 54:54 1 James Tinker 43:40 2 Mark Irwin 16 55:32 2 Alex McCormack 43:50 3 Hamish Lewis 1:01:02 3 Hamish Hull 47:03 4 David Fisher 1:06:08 4 Tim Barclay 47:06 5 Robert Spall 47:22 23 Jarred Hone 1:10:53 6 Chloe Gregory 48:48 24 Sam Wallace 1:11:37 7 Sarah Baxter 50:06 25 Jasmine Lock 1:13:41 8 Catherine Clark 50:42 26 Hannah Jones 1:13:48 9 Liam Ward 52:10 27 Neil Dent 1:17:43 10 Holly Edmonds 52:48 28 Peter Edwards 1:17:53 11 Faye McDonald 53:16 29 Anne Baxter 1:18:41 12 Simon Wallis 53:42 30 Peter Hone 1:21:18 13 Stephan17 Alsleben 54:21 31 Colwyn Forlong-Ford 1:22:31 14 Katie Eames 54:29 32 James Benton 1:23:32 15 Harriet Baxter 54:30 33 Brayden Stone 1:30:18 16 Connor Alsleben 1:03:50 34 Barbara Howard 1:35:32 17 Catherine Howell 1:04:20 35 Mirek Horak 1:43:08 18 Paul Steeds 1:07:02 36 Robbie Love 1:56:17 19 Philip Baker 1:07:15 37 Helen Howell 2:00:06 20 Gary Patton 1:08:59 38 Andrew Mitchell 2:10:00 21 Justin Alsleben 1:11:58 39 Aimee Lobb 2:10:59 22 Marcus Yule 1:14:29 Isabelle Sorensen mp 23 Susan Hone 1:14:49 24 Lyn Helliwell 1:17:47 Yellow (48) 2.3 km 8 C 25 Jane Davidson 1:22:26 1 Jarrod Lobb 28:04 26 Ruth Vincent 1:25:01 2 Hamish Duncan 29:12 27 Laura Kaan 1:32:00 3 Devon Beckman 30:01 28 Madeleine Parker 1:34:47 4 Kim Creagh 30:05 29 Greg Edmonds 1:49:31 5 Nathanael Hinton 30:26 Jane Herries mp 6 Annie Creagh 32:54 7 Ieuan Edmonds 33:49 Orange (40) 3.2 km 9 C 8 Grace Irwin 33:55 1 Andrej Kriz 36:30 9 Jules Dodd 36:37 2 Mike Howard 43:14 10 Ross Stone 39:17 3 Michael Helliwell 45:33 11 Oliva Beckman 39:29 4 Graeme Sunnex 46:27 12 Vida Fox 39:43 5 Gary Gregory 49:41 13 Jantha Gooding 41:49 6 Matt Stone 50:52 13 Amber Helliwell 41:49 7 Russell Dodd 51:49 15 Sue Stone 45:02 8 Henry Porter 52:35 16 Duncan Spall 45:37 9 Holly Edmonds 53:52 17 Emma Druitt 46:33 10 Kent Parker 54:29 18 Stephen Kilgour 46:39 11 Angus Fuhrer 55:50 19 Georgia Creagh 46:41 12 Georgia Lindsay 55:54 20 David Cooke 46:55 13 Megan Davidson 55:58 21 Laurence de Burgh 47:06 14 David Barclay 56:22 22 Kelly Sunnex 47:50 15 Sarah Davidson 57:02 23 Georgia Lock 47:56 16 Malin Dolden 1:01:16 24 Nicola Law 48:51 17 Kai Steinmann 1:02:03 25 Blair Whiting 48:56 18 Barrie de Burgh 1:02:25 26 Thomas Steinmann 49:30 19 Stephan Alsleben 1:04:13 27 James Bell 50:28 20 Amy Dolden 1:04:45 28 Rhiannon Forlong-Ford 51:36 21 Ryan Hone 1:07:04 29 Caroline Howell 54:07 22 Helen Edmonds 1:07:52 30 Alex Ross-Smith 57:02 31 John Edwards 58:43 8 Hannah St Clair 36:06 32 Gaye Evans-Love 59:33 9 Jane Dallimore 38:03 33 Tim Bravenboer 1:01:31 10 Yvonne Rothwell 38:29 34 Liam Hurst 1:02:13 11 Nicole Waldron 39:34 35 Samantha Agnew 1:02:15 12 Ian Geary 49:38 36 Alice Lumsden 1:03:51 13 Celia Dent 52:06 37 Gail Gregory 1:05:43 Brittany Etheridge mp 38 Katherine Rybinski 1:09:05 Alice Chappell mp 39 Harry Dent 1:16:02 40 Tom McCarthy 1:19:12 White 2 (17) 1.9 km 11 C 41 Glen Stone 1:23:46 1 Kelly Sunnex 18:29 42 Bailey Sims 1:25:49 2 Molly DAth 20:12 43 Brett Mercer 1:31:10 3 Tom Edwards 20:40 44 Steven Johnston 1:50:00 4 Antony Steiner 21:35 Sophie Rose mp 5 Jason Bryant 21:43 Donna Sunnex mp 6 Harry Evans 23:46 Jake McKinnon mp 7 Greta Averill 31:25 Isabella Radovanovich mp 8 Callum Hinton 36:10 9 John McNally 36:35 White 1 (15) 1.9 km 11 C 10 Isabelle Steinmann 39:19 1 Angela Sunnex 25:56 11 Ben Edwards 39:38 2 Trish O'Dea 26:58 12 Linda Pope 41:08 3 Jake McNally 29:09 13 Marcus Hurst 45:46 4 Aaron Bryant 31:04 14 Dan Jones 50:45 5 Molly Lee 32:40 15 Mike Hamilton-Jenkins 1:03:29 6 Kaya Shlomi 34:17 Angus Lindsay mp 7 Oliver Lock 35:54 Michael Chappell mp Hawkeye

Yeah. That’s it. It’s a pretty picture. A re you happy now? 18 Smedley Report—Duncan Morrison

Perhaps the gorges weren’t too fast to run through? Or was it the technicality of the courses. I don’t quite know even at this stage. But all I know is that I didn’t make too many friends with the courses I set. From early19 on the courses were always going to be starting and finishing in that area, focussing around the gorges and valleys. I had a nice mixture of pine, na- tive and open running. The red long (before a field check) was 1.5km longer, and red medium 1 km longer. This had to be cut back due to the pine forest that no one in the end went through, it being recently pruned. Unfortunately this took out a few good legs in the pine forest and detoured the gorge for a while. Also we had to alter the orange, yellow and white courses due to cropping in a pad- dock. But apart from this we were happy with most sites. I noticed, and I’m not sure if anyone did on their run, but as I was walking up a stream on the North West corner of the map it had no water in it. Yet further up the stream was flow- ing steadily. This was just about the highlight of a long day.

On the Saturday before the event we went to put controls out. We managed to get through this quickly as the controls were all very close. I put out half, and then checked Mark’s half. I even had time to dig the toilet tent. There was one control we both spent a bit of time on, I think it was 117; we ummmd and ahhhhhd but finally decided and were confident on its placing.

Sunday saw another good day of weather with another early start setting up the event centre and computer. Throughout the day we were helped by the David- son’s on the caravan so thank you to them. We got close to 200 people over the course of the day, with many of them spending quite some time out there. Look- ing back now I think I should have giving the courses more variation in terrain by having some more farm land legs. I would like to thank Mark Irwin who put up with my slack organization and helped out so much.

I hope everyone enjoyed parts of the courses, see you at the next event.

Letter to the Editor

I believe that the Red Short Veterans should be made to form a lineout, be given a branch of either blackberry, ongaonga or gorse and have Duncan Morrison run backwards between them chanting, “Enjoy the rivers of Smedley.” Anon. Smedley OY2 Results Red George Davies mp Long 6.2 km 21 C Rob Poulgrain mp 1 Hamish Goodwin 1:27:27 Jane Herries mp 2 Chris Howell 1:57:28 Jane Davidson mp 3 Geoff Morrison 1:57:29 Louise Anderson mp 4 Andrew Bott 2:02:13 Lyn Helliwell mp 5 Rita Homes 2:02:18 Doug Matheson mp 6 Phillip Herries 2:12:00 nc Stephan Alsleben 1:27:31 7 Hrobarova Lenka 2:12:29 Red Short 2.9 km 14 C Chris McDonald mp 1 Sean Morrison 1:12:47 Red Medium 4.0 km 17 C 2 Callum Herries 1:19:40 1 Pearson Williams 1:10:17 3 Tim Barclay 1:33:49 2 Bradley Ivory 1:13:30 4 Zivana Donnelly 1:38:59 3 Derek Morrison 1:16:34 5 Rebecca Manson 1:41:33 4 Jaime Goodwin 1:24:19 6 Holly Edmonds 1:42:55 5 Paul Jones 1:30:12 7 Sarah Davidson 1:44:53 6 Liam Ward 1:31:23 8 Emma Pullen 1:45:06 7 Jon Eames 1:35:12 9 Kelly Buckle 1:54:48 8 John Craven 1:39:48 10 Nicole Jones 2:00:53 9 Norris Cox 1:42:36 Harriet Baxter mp 10 Georgia Wedd 1:43:41 Catherine Clark mp 11 Murray Harty 1:47:54 Kelly Mulvay mp 12 Chris Tuffley 1:55:19 Orange 3.0 km 8 C 13 Cairn Coghill 1:55:35 1 Andrej Kriz 34:53 14 Campbell Edmonds 1:58:03 2 Connor Alsleben 36:12 15 Blake Hone 1:59:53 3 Fergus Bramley 38:08 16 Heather Jones 2:05:31 4 Angus Fuhrer 39:58 17 Grant Edmonds 2:05:36 5 Megan Davidson 42:14 18 Geoff Darryl Paget 2:06:21 6 Stephan Alsleben 42:18 19 Natalie de Burgh 2:07:31 7 Gary Gregory 43:55 20 Murray Richardson 2:10:51 8 Ieuan Edmonds 44:02 21 Steve Armon 2:11:17 9 Monieka Scott 47:25 22 Tim Anderson 2:21:00 10 Michael Helliwell 47:42 23 David Fisher 2:23:47 11 Henry Porter 48:15 24 Peter Watson 12 Peter Hone 48:57 2:38:08 13 David Barclay 49:28 Alan Davidson mp 14 Nicola Mulvay 51:30 Red Short Vet 2.9 km 14 C 15 Damien Scott 52:39 1 Hugh Forlong-Ford 1:01:11 16 Mirek Horak 53:54 2 Roger Mulvay 1:25:47 17 Robbie Love 56:25 3 Catherine Howell 1:26:48 18 Nathanael Hinton 56:55 4 Rob McDonald 1:30:29 19 Kim Creagh 57:36 5 Faye McDonald 1:44:04 20 Jarred Hone 59:27 6 Pamela Morrison 1:46:19 21 Malin Dolden 59:57 7 Alan Berry 1:48:19 22 Anne Baxter 1:02:48 8 Ken Holst 1:49:12 23 Freddie Stoddart 1:05:17 9 Stewart Hyslop 2:00:20 24 Justin Alsleben 1:10:26 10 Philip Baker 2:02:42 25 Hannah Jones 1:10:28 11 Tui Craven 20 2:27:17 26 Harrison Gregory 1:11:49 12 Susan Hone 2:27:49 27 Stephen Matthews 1:15:00 13 Paul Steeds 28 Greg Edmonds 1:20:28 2:31:01 Robyn Davidson mp 29 Graeme Sunnex 1:21:41 43 Millie Costley 57:45 30 Miranda Dowding 1:22:18 44 Harry Dent 58:03 31 Jim Spall 1:30:04 45 Patricia Larsen 58:19 32 Helen Edmonds 1:44:21 46 Nerys Jones 1:00:28 33 Andrew Mitchell 1:50:27 47 Ross Stone 1:02:08 Hamish Duncan mp 48 Celia Dent 1:02:45 Jill Costly mp 49 Georgia Creagh 1:03:29 Angus Logan mp 50 Caitlin Jones 1:03:31 Yellow 3.021 km 11 C 51 Glen Stone 1:05:49 1 Liam Hurst 23:48 52 Rob Duncan 1:10:41 2 Devon Beckman 28:46 53 Gaye Evans-Love 1:21:10 3 Robbie Love 30:51 54 Molly Lee 1:21:16 4 Annie Creagh 31:47 55 Jason Bryant 1:34:10 5 Chris Beckman 32:06 Marie Bell mp 6 Marie Jones 32:10 Gail Gregory mp 7 Kim Creagh 32:56 Wiremu Abraham mp 8 James Allcock 33:48 White 2.9 km 17 C 9 Ryan Hone 33:53 1 Zachary Averill 33:14 10 Jarrod Lobb 33:56 2 Angela Sunnex 39:30 11 Phil Law 35:00 3 Harry Evans 40:54 12 Brayden Stone 35:28 4 Callum Dewsnap 43:49 13 Laurence de Burgh 36:22 5 Taylor Harrison 43:54 14 Vida Fox 37:31 6 Callum Hinton 44:59 15 Tim Creagh 38:07 7 Jill Harrison 45:33 16 Helen Howell 38:13 8 Angus Harrison 46:49 17 Sue Stone 38:18 9 Brittany Harrison 46:55 18 Jeannie Ward 38:43 9 Jake McKinnon 46:55 19 Lindsay Averill 38:51 11 Marcus Hurst 48:02 20 Rory Ward 39:15 12 Greta Averill 48:52 21 Aimee Lobb 39:35 13 Isac Dyer 50:58 22 Angus Lindsay 39:42 14 Laura Branch 53:02 22 Kelly Sunnex 39:42 15 Danielle Oliver 58:50 24 Grant Husband 39:48 16 Siena Harrison 59:26 25 Hannah Matthews 39:54 17 Rita Campbell 1:02:19 26 Laura Matthews 40:13 18 Tania Campbell 1:04:58 27 Olivia Beckman 40:26 19 Abby Oliver 1:05:09 28 Nicola Law 40:56 20 Melissa Oliver 1:09:30 29 Brandon Jones 41:15 21 Madeline Bramley 1:10:51 30 Katherine Rybinski 41:23 22 Mitchell Jones 1:18:20 31 Rebecca Matthews 41:32 23 Mary Dent 1:22:44 32 Paula Lobb 42:29 24 Ellie Coyle 1:35:36 33 Amber Helliwell 42:38 25 Rhuaridh Williamson 2:02:37 34 Heath Dinneen 43:00 Lottie Evans mp 35 Duncan Spall 43:16 Amara Fox mp 36 Alice Lumsden 44:04 Briana Wilson mp 37 William Duncan 46:04 Jake McNally mp 38 John McNally 46:52 Caroline Howell mp 39 Aaron Bryant 51:06 Angus Macmillan mp 40 Barbara Howard 53:49 Georgina Macmillan mp 41 Callum Williamson 54:23 Brenda Berge mp 42 Sophie Rose 54:49 Julie Lily Dinneen mp Members of the Month—March The Family de Burgh come as a package deal—as soon as you get one involved, the rest of the family will swoop in and start playing too. Barry is lurking invisi- bly in the back of the photo—please indicate his location with an X.

How long have you been involved in orien- teering? This is our fourth year How did you get involved with orienteering? Mrs Goodwin at Havelock North Intermedi- ate asked Natalie to compete in the Hawke’s Bay Champs in 2007 at the Mission What do you remember about your first event? My first course (Natalie) at the Mission I re- member going over a really, really big hill, along the other side for a couple of controls and then getting lost and taking half an hour to get from one control to another!! I thought I had misread the map when the way it was telling me to go was up an- other gigantic hill that was covered in blackberry. I thought, that can’t be the way, they wouldn’t send us up there! Turned out, they had sent us up there. On Laurence’s first course, no-one had told him that the numbers on the control de- scription matched the controls he was meant to punch. Not being very good at map reading, Laurence just punched a control, saw one ten metres on, and punched that one as well. By the end of the course, Laurence had punched at least eight extra controls!! Barrie didn’t start orienteering for a while. He did a lot of research and asked a lot of questions before hand – so he wasn’t chucked in at the deep end. What courses do you usually run? Laurence does yellow, Barrie orange and Natalie has started on red this year What do you enjoy about orienteering? I like being challenged, mentally and physically. I mean, I like running, but it’s just so boring!! With orienteering, it’s great because it’s interesting. We get to go to places we otherwise would never have got to go to, out in the wopwops of Hawke’s Bay. If we met you during the week, what would you be doing? Natalie and Laurence would be at school, or have some kind of music group on, or orienteering practice. If you were Prime Minister for a day, how would you shamelessly abuse the posi- tion? 22 Get a free family trip to a foreign location – and initiate more public holidays!! Moonshine 24 – New Zealand Rogaine Champs 17/18 April

How to lose yourself for 24 hours in the Akatarawas

Last year Rolf and I signed up to do the 2010 World Rogaine Champs in Cheviot. So we embarked on a rigorous training schedule, each independently designed and individual- ised. As with 23any regime, some are more rigorous than others (Rolf’s is more structured and monitored than mine). He also suggested signing up to Attackpoint as well so we could routinely chastise and flagellate each other and keep an accurate log of our train- ing. As part of the program we conned each other into running the Kaweka Challenge course one. I have to admit after running quite a few course 3 Kaweka Challenges that I approached course one with more than just a bit of trepidation. On the day conditions were almost a bit warm, but on the limited training and more than a kilo or two over- weight I was pleased to finish within the time band I had set myself, albeit at the slow end. I was even more pleased to get to the end ahead of my tormentor Rolf who cruised in with a fellow competitor some time later.

Having duly prostrated myself at the altar of masochism, I slacked off a bit for the next week and then Rolf suggested we walk over the Kaweka range to Clements Mill Road near Taupo. Some of the bush was incredible but some had been completely ravaged by deer. It was satisfying to walk as near as we could to the headwaters of the Ngaruroro River through the frost flats of the central plateau. Two and a half days later and several bits of skin lighter for me and about the area of half a football field for Rolf, we emerged at Rangatikei in search of a promised bottle of beer left under a bridge by Rolf’s brother Aiden and a meat pie from the Summit Kiosk. Rolf was somewhat incredulous and al- most apoplectic as he passed by the kiosk unsatisfied as it was shut for the day. Bay View seemed an impossibly long distance away for a strung out pie addict.

So we raced each other several weeks later in the HB 6 hour adventure race as part of the build up to Moonshine 24. Another beautiful day for the race (how does Tim Wilkins do it?) and some more distance under the belt. With the training out of the way it came down to the important business of choosing a team name for the National Rogaine Champs.

Rolf said to me, “Let’s call our team “Chris carries Rolf through the mountains”.” It will really just be training for the World Rogaine Champs in November and as you finished ahead of me in both the HBAR6 and the Kaweka Challenge it would be appropriate. I politely declined the invitation on the basis that it may be construed an open invitation for it to happen. On that basis it seemed a good idea to have a dig at our faster but no more illustrious team mates from previous events. Thus we became “We love Hamish and Aiden”.

So dawned the day of the event. Mentally challenged by the pre event notes “large im penetrable areas of supplejack” and “night navigation cross country is inadvisable”, in the true spirit of rogaining we promptly set about planning a route that ignored much of that advice. The control layout was fiendishly difficult to get our heads around and al- the latter stages of the event. We did do a beautiful job of laminating our maps with cov- erseal. This was fabulous at protecting the maps and keeping them in good condition for the whole 24 hours. Handing in our flight plan which worryingly had a set route out to the back of the course and then a few vague arrows sketched in we scurried back to the tent to add yet more layers of protective tape to the blisters from the previous three events (Rolf) and to pray for something large to come and swallow us up before the start (me).

Within 20 minutes of the start we had 160 points and were waist deep in the frigid pools of the Whakatiki River, a river we were to gain more intimate knowledge of than we really wished to have through the event. Actually, apart from a few minor misdirections in the plethora of tracks around “rallywoods”, the first part of the event went well. Yes we clambered up an ugly scrubby spur and we made a minor mistake on a spur in the bush but we were exactly where we said we would be at 4:30pm. Unfortunately it was at that point that it all began to unravel.

We emerged from the bush onto a major forestry track and Rolf promptly dropped his peeled hardboiled egg on the ground, evidently rendering it inedible. We then made a major change to our route, electing to play it safe and miss out the flattish but mentally demanding loop through the bush. Then we missed an important minor track and kept walking an extra 20 minutes before deciding we should turn back. On correcting our mis- take, we kitted up for night navigation (the bush was getting very dark – black holes and Calcutta spring to mind) and girding our loins launched ourselves off track again down a re-entrant to a 50 point control at a stream junction. Despite having to wrangle our way past treacherous patches of kie kie and stumbling over large boulders in the watercourse, we made the control. Back on track? Nowhere near it! Climbing up to the next control in a saddle should have been a doddle – which should have sounded a strong warning that it wouldn’t be as easy as it looked. Blundering our way up the side of the wrong re- entrant, we emerged in what we thought was the saddle but couldn’t find the control. An hour later we went back to the stream junction control and attacked the saddle the cor- rect way by using the obvious handrails. Success!! Only 1 hour 47mins spent looking for a 20 minute control! At least we had the sagacity and perspicacity to go back to basics unlike one team from HB who spent a grand total of 7 hours looking for the same con- trol. On descending the crumbly hill my headlamp decided that having two functioning headlamps was adding too much to the national carbon footprint and went out not to come again for the rest of the night.

At this point I threw a bit of a wobbly, alternately cursing Mike Sheridan for choosing such an unsuitable area for a rogaine and Mapsport for the supply of a faulty headlamp. Rogaines are funny things in that they can really mess with your head; one hour you’re up, the next hour you’re struggling to keep body and soul together. For us the error made us take stock and start navigating properly and though our route was maybe not the best, we went quite well for the rest of the night. The worst part was the navigation of the Whakatiki River around midnight with waist deep pools often impeding our pro- gress. At one point I sent Rolf over the other side of the river to check out what we thought was a control site.24 I have to say that you should never send a boy to do man’s job because we were back there 15 minutes later punching the control. One feature of the area was the old tram tracks carved out for transporting the logs out in the 1900s. Huge cuttings were made to provide a gentle enough incline to haul the logs out on rails. They were good travel but you had to watch out where bridges were missing or the direction changed as they could become very vague. They were of great use in the morning as tired brains and sore feet sought an easy route for travel through the bush. Our last 4 hours proved lucrative and just as well otherwise we may have em- barrassed ourselves with a very low score. As it was we were never going to set the world alight25 but we did tackle some very difficult routes in the dark, achieving them with careful attention to the compass. We slowed up a fair bit in the early morning as Rolf started to suffer with his feet and digestion. A good dose of home made rice pudding and a 15 minute snooze (all Chris the Nazi would allow him) helped to get him on the road again.

No, I didn’t carry Rolf and most of what transpired will remain echoing in the bush and streams of the Akatarawas. I can’t say that the area is one I would leap on as a rogaine area and it won’t be on my list of places to return to for an event. I am I glad I did it? I guess so. Did I enjoy it? A qualified yes but much of the event was just grovelly. The highlight was reaching the finish in one piece and on time!

North Island Secondary Schools—Waitarere Beach

There really should be a larger report on this event because, once again, HBOC juniors performed so very well. Indeed, I was told that over half of the competitors were from Hawke’s Bay schools, though I’m too lazy to actually go to the Wellington Orienteering Club’s website and confirm this.

What I can confirm is that Hawke’s Bay orien teers dominated the podia again. 51 medal winners were from Hawke’s Bay compared with only 20 from the rest of the North Is- land. (Note how cunningly I omit English tourists from the results.) In only two events did we fail to place a single Hawke’s Bay run ner on the podium while in 10 races all three medallists were Black, White and Green, in- cluding every single junior girl.

Congratulations to Callum Herries (junior boys), Sarah Baxter (junior girls), Sean Morri- son (Y7- 8 boys) and Marie Jones (Y7-8 girls) who won championship races and to the six individuals and seven relay teams who were also first on Junior Girls’ Championship Podium the day. a Hawke’s Bay clean sweep

Special mention should also be made of Zane’s spectacular and hugely entertaining noc turnal pyrotechnics. You had to be there but if you were there, you wished you weren’t. Committee News: April 2010

Congratulations to club members selected for N.Z. teams - Junior World Champs Scott McDonald, Jamie Goodwin, Kate Morrison, Duncan Morrison World Orienteering Champs Ross Morrison, Rita Homes World University Champs Kate Morrison, Ross Morrison NZ Pinestars Team to compete against Australia Amber Morrison, Rita Holmes, Ross Morrison, Scott McDonald

Congratulations to Ross Morrison for his selection as JWOC 2010 coach and Derek Morrison for winning the NZOF “Coach of the Year” announced at the re cent NZ Championships.

Thanks have been received from Jamie Goodwin and Scott McDonald for the $250 club contributions to their JWOC costs.

Advice received that Great Outdoors, Hastings is offering a 10% discount on purchases to club members

First meeting for organising committee for 2011 National Champs has been called by Ruth Vincent.

An equipment hire form has been produced. Copies can be found in the club cara- van and will shortly be put up on the club website.

Vote of thanks to recently resigned committee members for their contribution to the committee and the club. These are Hamish Goodwin who has contributed hugely over a considerable period as committee member, Publicity Officer, Club Captain and Club President and Duncan Morrison as Junior Rep on the committee and Publicity Officer.

Advice was received from the Mapping Group that the last of the photogrammetry for the 2011 Nationals maps will be completed by August and that considerable progress has been made on the cartography.

The committee is seeking advice from the Mapping Group as to payment for the work going into clearing ongaonga from next year’s nationals’ maps. 26 Rob McD One way to do Nationals

Trapped in two vans with twenty teenagers for eleven days . . . could be a fate worse than death. Add being subjected to what they think passes for music. It all makes waterboarding27 seem like a welcome release. That’s what Roger, Gaye and Steve put themselves through over Easter. Steve even came back to be confronted by Hugh asking him to write an essay on what he did in the holidays. One thing he did was to read that new book THIS WAY UP about a teenager who is pushed into orienteering by his mum. It’s not a long read — in fact Sean read it while Steve and Geoff were talking at the door one afternoon. The author may have based the coach in that story on Roger. He had the same trick of turning off his hear- ing aid as they drove along. When Roger, Gaye and Steve’s gang piled out of the vans each day, the idea was that they went orienteering. This was at nationals in Central Otago, home of the briar rose and the matagauri bush and great earth canyons more like Utah than kiwiland. Their twenty charges were orienteers from Havelock North High who signed up to this trip in August of the year before when Clare Evans from England’s Ulverston Victoria High School confirmed she was coming down-under with some of her team on a return trip that was first mooted when they met the Havelock girls in Scotland in 2008 at World Schools. Ulverston are not just any old orienteering school: they provided three of the four school teams for England at World Schools in Spain, and three of the four in Scot- land before that. Max O’Hara came as the team star after winning the junior boys’ grade in Spain. But their team member who was really on fire on the New Zealand trip was Will Rigg. He went on to win the junior boys’ championship grade at North Island Schools, putting Callum Herries away by 37 seconds, and taking fastest over- all time when Ulverston won the junior boys’ relay the next day. Ulverston had to be punished for such affrontery by the Icelandic gods and sentenced to being stranded on a distant island, unable to return home. There they still languish at the time of writing, and will return to England, gods permitting, on the 8th of May. Meanwhile back at Roxburgh, Malin Dolden and Thomas Hensman took time out from wearing their cow suits to each place third in the sprint at nationals, before the team got on with the more important business of shooting one another up at paintball.

The middle course at Bannockburn Sluicings the next day was the Utah experience mentioned earlier on a wonderful, wild, complicated landscape. Once through this entrée, Havelock moved on to the main course — white water rafting with Ulverston on the Kawarau. This was the highlight, especially when the teachers’ raft was swept onto a much-feared rock in the final rapids. Which brings us to rocks. The long course at Earnscleugh was a poor man’s Maraeto tara, meaning the team from the Bay felt really at home. Hamish (M50A), Vaughan (M12A), Callum (M14A) and Scott (M20A) were all to win their grades. And for Havelock North, Paige Heavey (in W18A) and Natalie de Burgh (in W16A) chose the right day to come to the fore as they each took national titles and were presented with their trophies that evening. At the relays in Naseby, team Morrison were third over the line in the mixed long for Hawke’s Bay but had mispunched. Best Hawke’s Bay finish then went to Jack, Jaime and Cameron in 8th place. Further back in the 89-team field, Brad, Natalie and Paige finished 36th, four places ahead of Geoff, Pamela and Derek. In the mixed short, Sara, Vaughan and Sean took the title for Hawke’s Bay. The Havelock troops were all on the team sheet for HBOC, and had a great day. Of the 25 teams in the mixed short: Ash- leigh, Aimee and Catherine placed 5th; Roger, Robbie and Bethany 6th; and Kelly, Nathalie and Molly 8th — some of these teams were more mixed than others. Havelock then headed for their curling match with Ulverston. Trekking back up the island, Havelock and Ulverston went their separate ways, as the English group wanted to take in more of the touristy things like Doubtful Sound, Puna- kaiki Pancake Rocks and swimming with dolphins. Havelock did Queenstown on the Tuesday — the gondola, the luge, the iceskating, the parking ticket, the rafting photos, the Puzzling World and so on, and set the day up watching Malin and Nicola bungy jump from the Kawarau bridge. The Fox Glacier walk was the Wednesday centrepiece as the brilliant weather contin- ued to follow Havelock around. Thursday focused on Hanmer Springs with the team cruising on mountain bikes, blissing out in the hot springs or, for Ashleigh, taking in a beauty treatment. Roger forgot to fuel up and needed to call out the AA , Steve noticed his trailer tyre going down. Next day in Kaikoura, Natalie and Roger went whale watching while Brad and the boys changed a wheel. And it wasn’t until reaching Blenheim on Friday that twenty teenagers finally got what they had been hanging out for for the last nine days. SHOP- PING . . . well yes, and McDonald’s. Tim bought a shiny new plastic trike and the team got Marcus some giveaway plastic coat-hangers from Supré for his birthday. If we learn from experience, then Steve reckons he learned a couple of things on the trip. One is to check out if your fellow-travellers have a coffee addition before setting out. And the other is to never, ever, on any account, think about staying at the A1 Kaikoura Motel and Holiday Park. 28 S. Armon Member of the Month—April Rita Homes bucks a national trend. Usually, top juniors leave Hawke’s Bay to run for a club in a large centre but she left Wellington OC after a stellar junior career and ended up in the Bay. Their loss; our gain.

How long have you been involved in orienteering? As long as I29 can remember. How did you get involved with orienteering? Family, I had no choice! What do you remember about your first event? Building awesome forts in the pine trees or damming up the local stream. What courses do you usually run? Red long What do you enjoy about orienteering? The awesome feeling when you navigate right into the control and know where it will be before you can see it - wish that happened more often! Going to places you'd never see otherwise. If we met you during the week, what would you be doing? Surveying: outside measuring with the GPS or total station, or in the office playing with survey plans and numbers on the com- puter. If you were Prime Minister for a day, how would you shamelessly abuse the position? Make orienteering a national sport so it was compulsory in schools, then everyone else could enjoy it too!

Rita failing her course in basic camouflage—don’t stand up when they say, “Smile!” Main Committee

President Chris Howell (06) 879 5686 Secretary Phillip Herries (06) 870 9552 Treasurer Mark Irwin (06) 877 6730 Club Captain Mapping Paul Steeds (06) 871 0666 Fixtures Lesley Sceats (06) 878 8561 Equipment Murray Harty (06) 873 5182 Publicity Faye and Rob McDonald (06) 876 0146 Anne Baxter (06) 871 0306 Schools Tui Craven (06) 877 9848

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Landowner Liaison Rolf Boswell (06) 833 7300 Coaching Geoff Morrison (06) 877 4870 Membership Pamela Morrison (06) 877 4870 Magazine Hugh Forlong-Ford (06) 835 7820 Webmaster David Fisher (06) 844 8282

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Speed up your Registration at events – buy one now! To purchase30 - see Pamela Morrison at an event, email [email protected] or phone 877 4870. Date Event Map Setter Vetter 22-24 Jan Sprint the Bay Various 19-22 Junior Camp 27-Jan SS1 EIT Luis Slyfield Norris Cox 3-Feb SS2 Taradale Schools Sarah Anderson Rachel Goodwin 10-Feb SS3 Arataki Paul Jensen Kate Morrison 17-Feb SS4 Park Island Sara Bailey Scott McDonald 24-Feb SS5 Windsor Chris McD Faye McD 27–28 Feb Kaweka C 3-Mar SS6 Anderson Park Naomi Anderson Hugh FF 6-Mar Night Event Stoney Creek Stephan Alsleben Chris Howell 10-Mar SS7 Frimley Park Harriet Baxter Mark Irwin 13-Mar Katoa Po Taupo 21-Mar Club Event Te Awanga Cameron Massie Rob McDonald 28-Mar OY1-Long Craggy Range Jaime G Hamish G 2-5 Apr Nationals 11-Apr Club Event Rochfort Heather Jones Derek Morrison 16-Apr NISS-Champs Wellington 17-Apr NISS-Relay Wellington 17-Apr NZ Rogaine Wellington 25-Apr OY2-Long Smedley Duncan M Mark Irwin Deborah Turner 9-May Memorial Rogaine Taheke Hamish G Jamie G 16-May Club event Evertree John Craven Murray Harty HB School 23-May Champs Rotoma Rolf Boswell Ken Holst 6-Jun Queen’s Bday 13-Jun Club Champs The Slump Rita Homes David Fisher 27-Jun HB School Relay Te Awanga Chris Howell Pamela Morrison 4-Jul OY3-Middle Whana Whana Rob Polgrain Geoff Morrison 16-Jul Nat SS-Ind NW 17-Jul Nat SS-Relays NW 25-Jul Score Series Pukeora Katie Eames Jon Eames 8-Aug Score Series Te Mata Peak Phillip Baker Pamela Morrison 22-Aug OY4-Sprint Havelock Village Grant Edmonds Derek Morrison 5-Sep OY5-Score Taheke Murray Harty Chris Howell 19-Sep OY6-Long Tangoio Murray Richardson Geoff Morrison 3-Oct Club Event Tauroa Station Brett Sceats Ruth Vincent 17-Oct Club Event Rowe Road Phil Herries Ken Holst 23-25 Oct WOA Champs 31-Oct OY7-Long Tauroa Tim Anderson Rolf Boswell 14-Nov Club Event Over the Hill Catherine Howell Chris Howell 28-Nov Xmas Event Havelock Hills Tim Barclay Steve Armon

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