2020 Junior Training Camp

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This year’s Junior Training Camp will be held in Nelson from 13 to 18 December with applications closing on 31 August. Information on the camp can be found here .

Entries open for NISS

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Entries are now open for NISS and the accompanying public event. Please enter online using EnterO.

NISS 2020 event information

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Event information including entry details have now been posted on our NISS 2020 Event web page. 

Auckland Secondary School Rogaine Championship 2020 – 8 September

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The Auckland Secondary School Rogaine Championship for 2020 will be held at Totara Park on 8 September.

Information about the event can be found here. The entry form can be found here.

Revised Event Programme for 2020

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The events page on this website has been updated with new dates for AOS events, North Island Secondary School Champs, NZ Secondary School Champs, National Club Champs, Auckland Interclub Relay Champs.

July 5 event at Woodhill Forest

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AOS 2 – Whitelines, Woodhill Forest – 05 July Pre-Entry Required

This is just to confirm that North West Orienteering Club will be hosting AOS2 ( was AOS6) in Woodhill Forest on the Whites Line map on 5 July 2020 as previously scheduled.

Entry is via Rimmers Road, off SH6.

The club is encouraging pre-entry for this event to help manage contact tracking at  Covid19 level one.

Entry link is  https://entero.co.nz/evento.php?eventName=aos6-2020  (ignore AOS number reference in the link; it is for the AOS 2 event)

Enter O has not been updated to reflect family maximum cost of $40 for club members but the usual AOS rates DO apply as below.

  • Members Adult $20 / Junior $10 / Family $40
  • Non members Adult $30 / Junior $15 / Family $60
  • SPORTident hire $3 each.
  • Under 10 free
  • First time forest orienteers free

Online Orienteering Coaching Sessions

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Two of NZ’s elite orienteers, Gene Beveridge and Thomas Reynolds, who have represented NZ at World Orienteering Championships, have co-hosted online orienteering coaching sessions aimed at orienteers moving from intermediate (orange in NZ) to advanced (red in NZ) navigation.

#1: A Navigation Process, recorded on 11/05/2020 (first part of the session not recorded)

#2: Stepping Stones and Handrails, recorded on 18/05/2020

#3: Risk and Route Choices in Orienteering, recorded on 25/05/2020

#4: Typical errors in orienteering (and how to avoid them), recorded on 1/6/2020

The sessions are about 45 minutes long and recordings of them can be found here https://genebeveridge.nz/videos/

Orienteering activities under Covid 19 – Orienteering NZ guidelines

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As an orienteering club, we must comply with Orienteering New Zealand (ONZ) guidelines that have been released. The most recent guidelines can be found here.

Key elements of the Guidelines are below (key point is to avoid congregation in large groups)

  • Clubs not rushing in 
  • maximum of 100 people per football field is not comparable or suitable for orienteering 
  • no congregation of more than 10 people in one area
  • spread timings of congregation over the day
  • 2m social distancing
  • No contact with organizers etc

AOS 8 Event – Change of date

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We have had to change the date of the AOS event to held on the Waiuku Forest North map. It will now be held on Sunday 23 August instead of 16 August

More Pukekohe orienteering courses

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John Robinson has created three more no contact orienteering courses in Pukekohe at Rooseville Park. The instructions can be found here. The three courses can be found here and here and here.