The weekly e-newsletter of

Bendigo Orienteers Inc.

Issue 10/14: 26 March, 2014

Contact (for this publication): Peter J. Creely: luddcreely@impulse.net.au (Ph. 5443 1975)

Web site: www.bendigo-orienteers.com.au

 Important! If you don’t want to receive the bulletin, or if, at any time, you wish to discontinue receiving it, please advise me by return e-mail and your name will be taken off my list.

 The Black Crow is awarded each year to the club member who is responsible for the most spectacular misadventure of the year.

A new nomination. It was at Fiddlers Green when one of our more senior people started to take the trailer to bits to try and extract the container with the results slips in it that was (seemingly) stuck in the bottom. Someone else came along with (thankfully) a bit more nous and let the trailer tailboard down and just – took them out!!

I’m trying to remember something else about a download unit – what happened there Warwick?

 For those older members of the club, I caught up with Noel Schoknecht last night – he’s still going strong, still very much involved in WA orienteering. He was in Bendigo for a conference.

 Sedgwick.A great event, a good turn-up, great courses – Bendigo Orienteers bringing high quality local events to local people – as we should! Thank you Catherine! It was good to see so many of the people who attended our CATI’s turning up to try out the real thing in real forest on our doorstep — but what pleased me most was the number of families and lots of kids. It is vital that we push ‘reachable’ events after our CATI’s – Sedgwick proved this!

Results.

Organiser : Catherine Creely

1 Course (1): 10 KP 6.6 km ^

 1.     0 Chris Creely              BGV        00:59:56

 2.     0 Leisha Maggs              BGV        01:23:39 +23:43

 3.     0 Colin Walker              BGV        01:25:57 +26:01

 4.     0 Anitra  Dowling           EUV        01:39:51 +39:55

 5.     0 Paul Leicester            BGV        02:03:07 +63:11

 6.     0 Andrew Wallace            BGV        02:24:17 +84:21

2 Course (2): 8 KP 4.6 km ^

 1.     0 Louis Cameron             BGV        00:37:44

 2.     0 Andrew Cameron            BGV        00:44:20 +06:36

 3.     0 Nigel McGuckian           BGV        00:45:31 +07:47

 4.     0 John Wilkinson            BGV        00:49:32 +11:48

 5.     0 Brett Houlden             BGV        01:00:35 +22:51

 6.     0 Stephen Bird              BKV        01:00:50 +23:06

 7.     0 Rob Clark                 BGV        01:04:14 +26:30

 8.     0 Nic Cherry                BGV        01:04:37 +26:53

 9.     0 John Chellew              BGV        01:09:19 +31:35

10.     0 Han Perry                 BGV        01:11:42 +33:58

11.     0 Jenny  Ball               BGV        01:13:37 +35:53

12.     0 Rowan Goffin              BGV        01:27:00 +49:16

        0 Bob Leicester             BKV        DNF     

3 Course (3): 9 KP 3.5 km ^

 1.     0 Peter Forbes              BGV        00:42:20

 2.     0 Jimmy Cameron             BGV        00:49:31 +07:11

 3.     0 Lorraine Leversha         BGV        01:02:47 +20:27

 4.     0 Matt Jackel               BGV        01:09:14 +26:54

 5.    30 Ian  Johnson              BGV        01:25:46 +43:26

 6.     0 Katherine McMillan        BGV        01:27:36 +45:16

        0 Bob Cameron               BGV        DNF     

        0 Vivienne McMillan         BGV        DNF     

        0 Zac McDonald              BGV        DNF     

        0 Terry Gavaghan            QLD        DNF     

4 Course (4): 12 KP 3.5 km ^

 1.     0 Jarrod&Angus  Martin      BGV        00:45:26

 2.     0 Amos Walz                 BGV        00:49:45 +04:19

 3.     0 Shannon&Oliver Martin     BGV        00:49:52 +04:26

 4.     0 Carol Coad                BGV        01:03:43 +18:17

 5.     0 Jason Carter              BGV        01:12:04 +26:38

 6.     0 Roland Cauka              BGV        01:15:42 +30:16

 7.     0 Larelle McDonald          BGV        01:16:49 +31:23

5 Course (5): 13 KP 2.6 km ^

 1.     0 Michelle Alston           BGV        00:30:31

 2.     0 Bowman Family             BGV        00:37:13 +06:42

 3.     0 Solomon Cameron          BGV         00:41:09 +10:38

 4.     0 Family Wigney             BGV        00:41:18 +10:47

 4.     0 Jack Wigney               BGV        00:41:18 +10:47

 6.     0 Heather Robson            BGV        00:58:20 +27:49

 7.     0 Bendigo Hire              BGV        01:00:06 +29:35

 8.     0 Cunningham + Terry        BGV        01:24:13 +53:42

 State Series events. There were two SS events last weekend. The Bendigo people who traveled up went pretty well mostly — full results can be found on Eventor or WinSplits.

A few mentions: Day 1: Course 7W Karina Cherry,: 1^st.  Caitlyn Steer 5^th Day 2: Course 7W Caitlyn Steer 1^st., Karina Cherry 2^nd., Course 1M: Chris Naunton 1^st.; Course 2M: Lachlan Cherry 3^rd. Course 2W: Leisha Maggs 5^th.; Course 3M: Don Cherry 3^rd.; Course 3W: Louise Hall 4^th.;Course 4M: Michael Loughnan 1^st.; Course 6W: Judy Fitt: 4^th.

 Whispers: Word on the street is that a long time member of the club who used to wear only KT-26 shoes, has taken himself down to Sports Co in the Mall, and bought a pair of Inov-8 X-Talon 212 shoes, just like those on the Club website. 

Heard on the weekend (he was a controller), saying how much grip they had

 JSquad. I will start the separate JSquad e-Bulletin next week.

 Victorian Secondary Schools Orienteering Championships 2014

Entries for this event are now being taken!

All event information and entry forms are available on the Orienteering Victoria website 

The championships are open to all secondary school students and will be held on Friday 16th May atPlenty Gorge West, Hawkstowe. Within each course there are age categories for inexperienced and experienced competitors of varying abilities and ages: All juniors planning on trying out for the Victorian State Team should attend as it is one of the two selection races held in deciding the team to compete at ASOC in WA during the September Holidays.

 Coming Events. Saturday 29 March.

Map: Diamond Hill Organiser: Peter Forbes

Course Setter: Peter Forbes  Start: 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm

Comment: Diamond Hill is a wonderful area. It has many pieces of old gold mining and erosion, making it a very interesting place to wander around. The easier courses will be suitable for beginners so come along and taste the forest!

Courses: Courses 1, 2 and 3 difficult navigation, 4 moderate nav. And 5 easy.

Directions: From Bendigo: From the Fountain travel south along Mitchell Street, over the railway bridge. Continue through the traffic lights (where the street becomes Carpenter St.), through the roundabout and past the Cemetery. Ignore the Spring Gully turn off and a couple of hundred metres further on turn right into Paterson Street, then again right into Burnside Street. Look for the assembly area. From Melbourne: travel via the Calder to the centre of Bendigo, then as for Bendigo.

 NOTE THAT IN THE EVENT OF A DAY OF TOTAL FIRE BAN IN THE NORTHERN COUNTRY REGION ANY EVENT SCHEDULED FOR THAT DAY WILL BE CANCELLED.

 Next Bulletin 2 April

The weekly e-newsletter of

Bendigo Orienteers Inc.

Issue 08/14: 5 March, 2014

Contact (for this publication): Peter J. Creely: luddcreely@impulse.net.au (Ph. 5443 1975)

Web site: www.bendigo-orienteers.com.au

 Important! If you don’t want to receive the bulletin, or if, at any time, you wish to discontinue receiving it, please advise me by return e-mail and your name will be taken off my list.

 Note that there will be no e-Bulletin next week so you will find that details of the Fiddler’s Green event are included.

 Bendigo’s event program for 2014 – fridge magnets now available – from Peter Creely at the CATI on 8 March or at Fiddlers Green.

 AGM 2014: Office Bearers and other outcomes. The BO AGM was held Tues 4 March – a good roll up of people given the circumstances (would have been good to have more there!). The new Office Bearers are: President: Jim Russell, VP: Julie Flynn, Secretary: John Wilkinson, Treasurer: Andrew Wallace. Committee: Andrew Cameron, Jenny Ball and Peter Creely.

 The Black Crow is awarded each year to the club member who is responsible for the most spectacular misadventure of the year. As an example, the BC mentioned below on Fiddlers Green (a long time ago) came about when the course setter forgot the scale of the map was 1:15,000 and estimated course lengths on a 1:10,000 scale, thus causing all courses to be 50% longer; the runners on the long course, believing they were running 6 kms actually completed 9 kms and so on down the chain. This week, the second nomination for the year:

The latest nomination: The chap who was asked to bring a copy of the Mt. Alexander map to an event for someone, and it wasn’t until he handed the map over that he found that he had actually brought along the Mt. Tarrengower map: a mountain, yes, granite, yes, but in a different place! (This year all names will be suppressed until the presentations.)

 Come to beautiful Yackandandah – Saturday 22 March Bendigo member and controller for the State Series bush orienteering event coming up on Saturday 22 March, Mark Hennessy, tells us that the Yackandandah map will be the original 1:5000 map made by Leigh Privett, with courses set by Leigh. This is a magnificent, legible gold mining map, and the terrain is as good as the best that even Bendigo has to offer. And the bush is not too thick.

Entries close this Saturday night, so get yours in. Like our Bendigo events, there are now no age classes for State Series events – so people are more free to choose the level at which they participate.

And, if you like music, the Yackandandah folk festival is on from Friday to Sunday, with top acts like Jan Preston (piano) and Kavisha Mazella, plus overseas performers. Even if you don’t buy a ticket, enjoy the ambience and the buskers, and the food tents.

Sunday’s event is on granite terrain, so if you like Kooyoora (who doesn’t?), Mt Korong or Mt Tarrengower, you will love Kangaroo Crossing at Eldorado.

See Eventor for details. Mark Hennessy

 But, an event just as important: Fiddler’s Green (and it’s closer!) (15 March) is gently undulating to very flat, with a lot of old mining detail. One of our older maps, it was created in the days when we traced the base map from contour maps obtained from (the then) State Rivers and Water Supply Commission (now Coliban Water). There was very little other detail, mostly only major roads and tracks. The area was subsequently remapped to a high standard by Chris Creely. See event details below.

I originally found the name on a very old mining map of the area. One of the many explanations of FG is that it is a legendary, supposed afterlife where there is perpetual mirth, fiddles that never stop playing and dancers that never tire, thought to be inspired by the mythical Greek Elysian Fields. It is mentioned a lot in nautical terms: nautically it is at the bottom of the ocean and sailors supposedly go there if they die through drowning at sea. Whatever, I find it all very interesting — I’ll leave it to you. It was also the scene of a very high standard  Black Crow nomination back in the day!

 Come and Try It. Please, don’t forget our CATI’s. It is important that we have enough people in attendance to ensure that any new people are well looked after. A lot of effort has gone into the preparation – course setting, publicity so let’s make an effort (don’t forget your Bendigo tops). I also look forward to our JSquad people helping to look after newcomers out in the forest – as they did last year – good training and a chance for Bendigo to show off our very talented kids (in their JSquad tops, weather permitting of course).

 Coming Events. Saturday 8 March.

Come and Try It, Day 2

Map: Guy’s Hill Road (on the eastern side of One Tree Hill)

Organiser: Peter Creely et al  Course Setters: Julie Flynn and Terry Davidson

Start: 10.00 am to 12.00 Noon

Courses: Three courses: Cse. 1 Easy; Cse 2 Moderate (both for Newcomers); Cse. 3 Difficult.If Bendigo members come out, it is expected that you give priority to assisting Newcomers before your own run. You are most welcome to have a run (I recommend Course 3) but a lot of work has been put in to allow new people to have an enjoyable experience in orienteering: please remember this and put in a bit of time for your club!

Directions: Travel out Condon Street/Strathfieldsaye Road. Approximately 2 kms past the Reservoir Hotel (Kennington Reservoir) turn right into Guy’s Hill Road (O sign). After 1.8 kms (at the end of the bush/beginning of the housing estate on the left), turn left into Brentwood Drive (O sign) and follow the O signs.

 15 March – Bendigo Bush Classic

Bendigo Orienteers’ Bush Classic series gets back underway on Saturday March 15th. Come and see why plenty of orienteers regularly travel from Melbourne and Ballarat to take part in these friendly and high quality bush events. The opening event is on the Fiddlers Green map, a fast open map with subtle contour detail and a scatter of gold mining detail. This is a map where many will run faster than they can navigate. Start times are from 12.30 to 2 pm. Enter on the day.

Course setter Warwick Williams.

Courses: 1 7.1 km hard, 2 5.1 km hard, 3 3.2 km hard, 4 2.9 km moderate, 5 2.3 km easy

Directions:Travel to Bendigo and then out to Eaglehawk. From the traffic lights in the middle of Eaglehawk continue north west and take the second right onto the road towards Mitiamo andPyramid Hill (C336). Follow the C336 for 4.7 kilometres, then turn right into Janaway Road and look for orienteering signs.

NOTE THAT IN THE EVENT OF A DAY OF TOTAL FIRE BAN IN THE NORTHERN COUNTRY REGION ANY EVENT SCHEDULED FOR THAT DAY WILL BE CANCELLED.

 Next Bulletin 12 March

The weekly e-newsletter of

Bendigo Orienteers Inc.

Issue 07/14: 26 February, 2014

Contact (for this publication): Peter J. Creely: luddcreely@impulse.net.au (Ph. 5443 1975)

Web site: www.bendigo-orienteers.com.au

 Important! If you don’t want to receive the bulletin, or if, at any time, you wish to discontinue receiving it, please advise me by return e-mail and your name will be taken off my list.

Reward points. How about we bring in a rewards system where people earn points for things they do for the club. Thus you could earn X points for course setting an event, or Y points for helping out at our CATI’s and so on. These points could then be put towards cancelling out any Black Crow nominations you may receive. What do you think? JMT.

 SS1 Mt. Baw Baw 9 March. (repeat): Entries are now open via Eventor. Normal entries close midnight 1st March 2014.

 A Big Weekend (repeat) of orienteering in NE Victoria is coming up on 22-23 March.Saturday on Rowdy Flat at Yackandandah. Courses set for this event are set by the original mapper.  And Sunday back to Kangaroo Crossing near Eldorado.
Both events are National Orienteering League events (and Sunday is a World Ranking Event) so the best Australian orienteers will be there. But careful note has been taken by the course setters of the needs of the younger and older competitors.  There will be good orienteering for everyone

The Closing Date is approaching fast: 8th March. (We need this earlier-than-usual date to organise things for the NOL and WRE so we’re hoping that everyone else can also get organised early!). Entries via Eventor, Saturday or Sunday There will be only limited opportunities for entering on the day, so please plan ahead and do your entries online.

 Fiddler’s Green (15 March) is gently undulating to very flat, with a lot of old mining detail. One of our older maps, it was created in the days when we traced the base map from contour maps obtained from (the then) State Rivers and Water Supply Commission (now Coliban Water). There was very little other detail, mostly only major roads and tracks. The area was subsequently remapped to a high standard by Chris Creely.

I originally found the name on a very old mining map of the area. One of the many explanations of FG is that it is a legendary, supposed afterlife where there is perpetual mirth, fiddles that never stop playing and dancers that never tire, thought to be inspired by the mythical Greek Elysian Fields. It is mentioned a lot in nautical terms: nautically it is at the bottom of the ocean and sailors supposedly go there if they die through drowning at sea. Whatever, I find it all very interesting — I’ll leave it to you. It was also the scene of a very high standard  Black Crow nomination back in the day!

 Come and Try It. Please, don’t forget our CATI’s. It is important that we have enough people in attendance to ensure that any new people are well looked after. A lot of effort has gone into the preparation – course setting, publicity so let’s make an effort (don’t forget your Bendigo tops). I also look forward to our JSquad people helping to look after newcomers out in the forest – as they did last year – good training and a chance for Bendigo to show off our very talented kids (in their JSquad tops, weather permitting of course).

 AGM. Tuesday 4 March. Athletic Centre (LUBAC), Retreat Road Flora Hill at 7.30 pm. You will receive more info on this in the very near future (if you haven’t already).

 Coming Events. Saturday 1 March.

Come and Try It, Day 1

Map: Guy’s Hill Road (on the eastern side of One Tree Hill)

Organiser: Peter Creely et al

Course Setters: Julie Flynn and Terry Davidson

Start: 10.00 am to 12.00 Noon

Courses: Three courses: Cse. 1 Easy; Cse 2 Moderate (both for Newcomers); Cse. 3 Difficult.

If Bendigo members come out, it is expected that you give priority to assisting Newcomers before your own run. You are most welcome to have a run (I recommend Course 3) but a lot of work has been put in to allow new people to have an enjoyable experience in orienteering: please remember this and put in a bit of time for your club!

Directions: Travel out Condon Street/Strathfieldsaye Road. Approximately 2 kms past the Reservoir Hotel (Kennington Reservoir) turn right into Guy’s Hill Road (O sign). After 1.8 kms (at the end of the bush/beginning of the housing estate on the left), turn left into Brentwood Drive (O sign) and follow the O signs.

 Preliminary notice

15 March – Bendigo Bush Classic

Bendigo Orienteers’ Bush Classic series gets back underway on Saturday March 15th. Come and see why plenty of orienteers regularly travel from Melbourne and Ballarat to take part in these friendly and high quality bush events. The opening event is on the Fiddlers Green map, a fast open map with subtle contour detail and a scatter of gold mining detail. This is a map where many will run faster than they can navigate. Start times are from 12.30 to 2 pm. Enter on the day.

Course setter Warwick Williams.

Courses:1, 7.1 km hard 2, 5.1 km hard3, 3.2 km hard 4, 2.9 km moderate5, 2.3 km easy

Directions:Travel to Bendigo and then out to Eaglehawk. From the traffic lights in the middle of Eaglehawk continue north west and take the second right onto the road towards Mitiamo andPyramid Hill (C336). Follow the C336 for 4.7 kilometres, then turn right into Janaway Road and look for orienteering signs.

 NOTE THAT IN THE EVENT OF A DAY OF TOTAL FIRE BAN IN THE NORTHERN COUNTRY REGION ANY EVENT SCHEDULED FOR THAT DAY WILL BE CANCELLED.

 Next Bulletin 5 March

Bendigo Orienteers Inc.

Issue 06/14: 19 February, 2014

Contact (for this publication): Peter J. Creely: luddcreely@impulse.net.au (Ph. 5443 1975)

Web site: www.bendigo-orienteers.com.au

 Important! If you don’t want to receive the bulletin, or if, at any time, you wish to discontinue receiving it, please advise me by return e-mail and your name will be taken off my list.

 Black Crow! It may not be the first for the year but I believe that it could be a first for our JSquad. A very experienced and talented Junior took off in the first session of the ToDay last Saturday and was immediately in all sorts of bother. Could not relate the map to the terrain or get into gear at all! Then all became clear. The map had two sides and he was looking at the wrong side. Well done, another one for the experience bank!

(All BC’s will remain anonymous this year until the presentations.)

 Results2014 BendiGo “Getting into Autumn” ToDay

B. 2.6 & 5.9k

5 875 m, 33 starting competitors

C. 2.0 & 4.0k

3 950 m, 9 starting competitors

SS1 Mt. Baw Baw: Entries are now open via Eventor. Normal entries close midnight 1st March 2014. 

A Big Weekend of orienteering in NE Victoria is coming up on 22-23 March.
Saturday on Rowdy Flat at Yackandandah. Courses set for this event are set by the original mapper.  And Sunday back to Kangaroo Crossing near Eldorado
Both events are National Orienteering League events (and Sunday is a World Ranking Event) so the best Australian orienteers will be there. But careful note has been taken by the course setters of the needs of the younger and older competitors.  There will be good orienteering for everyone!

The Closing Date is approaching fast: 8th March. (We need this earlier-than-usual date to organise things for the NOL and WRE so we’re hoping that everyone else can also get organised early!). Entries via Eventor. There will be only limited opportunities for entering on the day, so please plan ahead and do your entries online. 

Come and Try It. As advised last week, we will be running two CATI events on Saturday 1^st. and Saturday 8^th. March. They will be held on Terry Davidson’s new Guy’s Hill Road map. Julie Flynn is setting two Newcomer courses and Terry is setting one longer, more challenging course.

Everyone is welcome to have a run but I would like the primary thrust to be helping out and talking to people about orienteering. I also look forward to our JSquad people helping to look after newcomers out in the forest – as they did last year – good training and a chance for Bendigo to show off our very relented kids (in their JSquad tops, of course weather permitting).

Centre (LUBAC), Retreat Road Flora Hill. More details later. 

Coming Events. Saturday 1 March.

Come and Try It, Day 1

Map: Guy’s Hill Road (on the eastern side of One Tree Hill)

Organiser: Peter Creely et al

Course Setters: Julie Flynn and Terry Davidson

Start: 10.00 am to 12.00 Noon

Courses: Three courses: Cse. 1 Easy; Cse 2 Moderate (both for Newcomers); Cse. 3 Difficult.

If Bendigo members come out, it is expected that you give priority to assisting Newcomers before your own run. You are most welcome to have a run (I recommend Course 3) but a lot of work has been put in to allow new people to have an enjoyable experience in orienteering: please remember this and put in a bit of time for your club!

Directions: Travel out Condon Street/Strathfieldsaye Road. Approximately 2 kms past the Reservoir Hotel (Kennington Reservoir) turn right into Guy’s Hill Road (O sign). After 1.8 kms (at the end of the bush/beginning of the housing estate on the left), turn left into Brentwood Drive (O sign) and follow the O signs.

 NOTE THAT IN THE EVENT OF A DAY OF TOTAL FIRE BAN IN THE NORTHERN COUNTRY REGION ANY EVENT SCHEDULED FOR THAT DAY WILL BE CANCELLED.

Next Bulletin 26 February