Tahere Classic Orienteering

Registration from 10am,  Starts from 10.30am

Course Closure 12.30pm

This is a classic orienteering course. 

We will be using the sport ident timing system. Sport ident hire is included in the registration fee. Your fee will be discounted if you are using your own SI card, enter your SI number when you register

There will be 4 courses on offer Red Long, Red Short, Orange and Yellow. 

This is the one of our more technical maps in a different part of the forest from what we used last year.  Think carefully about which course will suit you best. Anyone entering the red long course must take  a compass and must know how to use it. The yellow course closely follows features like fences or streams. For the orange course, you can chose to follow handrails like fences, streams or tracks for part of the way or as back stops so you don't run too far past or too far left/right.  The red course has many controls that are in the middle of poor visibility bush and away from easy handrails, hence the need to be able to use a compass to  find them. The ground is mostly  fast walk for the average person, with the tracks being runable.  The red and orange courses will likely involve some stream and/or marsh crossings, so expect to get wet feet, unless of course you are that springy mountain goat who can jump across ( some of you will be able to do that). 

Ideally everyone takes a compass, so if you end up unsure of your location at any time you can follow the safety bearing back to the road.

Our thanks to the landowners for allowing us on their land. Please respect the fences, leave gates as you find them and most importantly  take nothing with you that could contribute to starting a fire.

As the saying goes.... Take only memories and leave only footprints

Fees for this event 

Members - $13 per map (maximum of 2 adults, any number of children) to a maximum of $30 per event for entries from the same family)

Non Members - $18 permap (maximum of 2 adults, any number of children) to a maximum of $45 per event for entries from the same family)

Sport Ident Discount if you are using your own SI  -  $3 for an individual, $5 for a family - please enter the SI number when you register, then reduce your event fee by the relevant amount.

There is a maximum of 2 adults per team entry fee/per map but we are happy if you join groups to run/walk together. 

Register online and if possible pay by bank deposit. If you are bringing cash on the day if you can try to bring the correct change or smaller notes, coins as we have limited change. For internet banking "Tahere" is the reference and " your surname" is the particulars. 

The "Whangarei Orienteering  Club"  bank account number is  03-0498-0118400-000 

It is important that you record the names of all team members.

Registering online will help us ensure we print enough maps and will make it easier to set up the electronic timing system in advance.