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Bendigo Orienteers Inc.
Issue 22/14: 18 June, 2014
Contact (for this publication): Peter J. Creely: luddcreely@impulse.net.au (Ph. 5443 1975)
Web site: www.bendigo-orienteers.com.au
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Map walks. Sometime after the finish of our SR series, probably mid July, I intend to do a series of map walks. These will be marked courses on selected maps and we will see the features on the ground and how they look on the map. I am still finalising the details and working on making the exercises challenging and interesting. I will select different maps for different days: one day rock features and contours, another, old mining and some of the ruins in the bush, another we will explore some of the extreme mining that happened during the gold mining boom in Bendigo in the 1800’s. I intend to make it very interesting for both kids and adults. The walks will be around 1.5 to 2 kms and will not be too challenging physically. More later!
Bendigo Night Champs. Hi People, As some of you may know I am organising the Bendigo night champs later this year and plan to make it full of a lot of technological stuff. One of these bits of technology is GPS tracking to go along with the video production. The cheapest way to do this if for people to run with smart phones running a web browser that sends the information to the server every 30second. So I am looking to do a test this weekend at Diamond hill. If you are keen to be part of this please let me know so I can set things up. It would require you running with a smart phone in a back pocket/arm sleeve or something, I suggest ziplocking it in a small back (might organise Jimbo to have them at the event). The amount of data it would us would be minimal – at a guess 5-10mb at absolute max I would think.
Anyway please let me know if you are keen ASAP
Thanks
Toph
christopher.naunton@gmail.com
Juniors? (Repeat) If you know of any kids who enjoy orienteering and would like to be on our mailing list, could you let me know please. I will resume my monthly newsletter shortly and this may be of interest to some of you. As well I will be arranging some map walking sessions for our Space Racers (and any other Juniors who may wish to take part) about mid July, on local maps. These will take place on Saturday mornings (dates yet to be decided) and will last about one and a half hours. We will walk a Novice standard course with about ten controls over approx 2 kms. We will look at orientating the map, knowing where you are on the map at all times, look at various features and how they appear on the map legend – general knowledge stuff, not too heavy, not too physical. They will be open to anyone who wants to take part, including adults. More details later.
Bendigo Skins 14 June. Results
Space Racing, 14 June: Back to Spring Gully for the final competitive run. Obviously the course set by Terry was challenging as no team got all controls.
That is the final run and it leaves the Lightning Bolts as the outright winners. Congratulations to Isobel Bryne, Maybel Krasner and Abi Brockett.
Next Saturday we will have Kids Rule where parents are able to go around the course with the kids. After that we will have a sausage sizzle and the presentations and the first SR series for 2014 will be over.
Coming Events
Saturday 14 June. Bendigo Bush Classic 8
Course setter: John Wilkinson
Map: Diamond Hill South 1:10,000 updated 2014.
Time: 12.30 pm – 2.00 pm
Courses: Five: 3 hard (7 km, 5 km, 3 km), 1 moderate (2.5 km), 1 easy (2 km).
Terrain: Classic gold mining, spur/gully bush.
Entry fee: $8 enter on day. SI timing
Start: At eastern end of Shelton’s road, Kangaroo Flat, near Diamond Hill road.
Directions; From Kangaroo Flat (Calder H’way) turn left (east) into Taylor St (traffic lights), then left into Railway St, right into Chapel St, under railway line then right into Allingham St, then left into Shelton’s Rd. Start at eastern end of Shelton’s Rd. From Melbourne: Travel towards Bendigo on the Calder. Coming into Kangaroo Flat go through traffic lights at Lansell Plaza and at the next set of lights turn right into Taylor Street, then as for Kangaroo Flat above. From Bendigo, go south along Diamond Hill Road and turn right into Shelton’s Rd.
Map to start on Eventor.
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