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Kinross - MTB Orienteering
The city of Orange is around 4 hrs from Sydney and 3 hrs from Canberra. Kinross State Forest is situated on the northeast edge of town, a 10 minute drive or 20 minute ride from the Orange town centre.
Meet at the Bulgas Road carpark, Western edge of the forest.
The weather's looking good for Sunday for some MTB orienteering action. Come along and give it a try! Here are some details:
1) Three (3) hour event. Competitors go off in pairs (depending on numbers) we will put the checkpoints out in rough sequence around the forest. More like a rally race rather than a hide and seek. We allocate (exponential) increasing points for each checkpoint with the last one the furthest away. Once you bag the last one it is a sprint home before cut off. Every minute late you loose points.
2) Some check points will be placed off the track a bit so they have to actually navigate a bit - not just run in to them if they follow the right track. This will cater for the smart (unfit) people!
3) Arrive at 9.30 for rider briefing at 9.50, 10am start with teams going off in 1 min intervals so competitors don't just follow each other around. Cut off is 3 hours later followed by BBQ.
4) Each competitor/pair should have the following compass, watch, phone, water, pen/pencil. We will give each a map.
5) Competitors will mark up their own map before they set off, copying points and information off a master map.
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Note the date change (now 28th July)
Hi all,
Sorry for the late notice - we've decided to cancel tomorrow's orienteering event. We've only had a couple of people indicating they are coming tomorrow. We are keen to use our plans to run it another time and perhaps promote it a bit better.
There is also the first XC race on Bathurst's new track tomorrow which is taking some people from Orange (and I assume Bathurst).
A couple of us will be at Kinross Forest at 9:45 for a ride anyway in case you're keen to still get a ride in.