Thanks, Lost Property and Future Events

Thank you all for coming and supporting our event. It was a beautiful day and I hope everyone had a great experience on the Port Hills. We enjoy being able to show people what a treasure that Christchurch has on its doorstep. We would like to acknowledge with much gratitude all of the landowners: The Mount Vernon Farm Trust, Summit Road Society, Christchurch City Council, the Wooff family and Ian Burford and Sharon McGarry. We hope you will use the map again for walks or runs on the hills but please do note that although most of the land is public access the area around checkpoints 73 and 94 and around checkpoint 83 is private property so please keep to the tracks in these areas.

Hopefully you have all seen that the results are up on our webpage (and have been since the evening of the rogaine)

http://springrogaine.blogspot.co.nz/

We had a couple of items of lost property handed in:

•  a key on a lanyard and 
•  baseplate compass.

 If these are yours please get in touch. We also had reports of missing items:

• black thermatech long sleeve top with Coast to Coast logo on it
• compass to go on your finger
• child's brown fleece top with love hearts

If you happened to find any of these please let us know so we can help reunite them with their owners.

And last but certainly not least, more navigation events coming up:

The next 3 Wednesday Evenings “Bivouac Night Navigation Series” is happening in 3 different forests/reserves around Christchurch. On Wednesday it is at Spencer Park in the Northern end of Bottle Lake Forest Park - the format is 1 hour rogaines - registration from 6 pm and mass start at 7 pm.

See all the details on: http://www.nightnav.org/

In October the Wicked Rogaine series takes off with a 3 evenings series traditionally organised somewhere along the Port Hills. See all those details as they become available on:

http://wickedrogaines.nz/

On the New Zealand Rogaine Associations website http://www.rogaine.org.nz/ there is a whole heap of information available about rogaining including a New Zealand wide events calendar.

If you feel like testing yourself on set courses where you have to navigate through a number of control points in order from start to finish. Then visit the Peninsula and Plains Orienteers website http://papo.org.nz/

to find one of the regular events happening sometimes close to Christchurch and sometimes further afar in the Canterbury Region. These are open to all and suitable for all ages including children - great to get kids started early at understanding maps and navigation!

The next orienteering event is in the intricate sand dunes around the event centre at Woodend Beach Domain on Sunday the 18th of September.

Thanks once again, your support is helping us to get school kids to orienteering events around NZ and further afield

Port Hills Spring Rogaine Team

Six Hour Results

Here is the Six Hour Results:
Spring Rogaine 2016 - 6 Hour Results (28/8-2016 9:37 PM)

Three Hour Results

Now the 3 hour results are ready as well:
Spring Rogaine 2016 - 3 Hour Event Results (Updated 29/082016 7:01 AM)

One Hour Rogaine Results

Thanks a lot for coming to support our event!

Here are the results from the event that finished first today - the 1 hour rogaine:
Spring Rogaine 2016 - 1 Hour Result

Map Sample and Legend

Here is the promised map legend:
MapLegend

and here is a map sample to get something to match the legend up with:
MapSample (3 MB)

3 and 6 hours Rogaine - Detailed Information Sheet & Team List Available

We're really excited to have 133 teams entered made up of over 300 people for the 2016 Port Hills Spring Rogaine! 

We've put out 77 controls which we think will provide lots of fun and achievable options for all.

All the information you need is in the attached documents. Please read it carefully and please forward this email to all of your team mates. The team list contains your number which you need to fill into the attached indemnity form and hand in at registration.

See you on Sunday

The Spring Rogaine Organisers Team

Here is a detailed information sheet - please have a read:
InformationSheet (updated 25/8 10:51 PM)

And here is the team list:
TeamList

And there is also the indemnity form:
IndemnityForm

6 and 3 hour Rogaine Entries has reached our limit - Entry for those options is closed

We have already reached the limit for how many entrants we can cater for on the 3 and 6 hour options and the entry has been closed. There is NO entry on the day for the 3 or 6 hour options.

But the entry form for the 1 hour option is still available (use this to ensure a map is available for you - this entry form will be closed Friday Night) and we will take on the day entries for the 1 hour option to the extend that we have enough maps.

1 Hour Option - Entry Form available through link below

Now we have the entry form for the 1 hour option ready:
1 hour option - Entry Form

Use this form to ensure maps are available for your team on the day (and an easier flow through the registration). For the 1 hour Option ONLY it will also be possible to enter on the day to the extent that we have maps available.

Online Entry may close Early

We've had a fantastic entry response this year and already have over 200 entrants.

As we want to ensure that we offer a great experience to everybody taking part we are going to limit the numbers to approximately 300 entrants. This means that the online entry may close prior to the advertised closing date of 24th August.

Classes

There has been a bit of confusion as to how the rules are for being a Veteran Team or a Junior Team.

To be in the Veteran Team class ALL members of the team must be 50 years or more.

To be in the Junior Team class ALL members of the team must be 20 years or less.

All other teams are Senior (Open) Class. We'll look through the entry data and add teams to the correct classes when the online entry closes.

2 weeks to the entry closing date

The day of the event is getting closer (and so is the entry closing date).

We have been out checking control sites on the beautiful (but slightly cold) Port Hills and are excited about the planning of the event.

It has also been decided to offer a 1 hour event with more controls within the Victoria Park area to cater for families or anyone keen to do a shorter option. The plan is to use google forms for pre entry to the 1 hour event and have some entry on day as this is going to be a no food included event. More details regarding this will appear soon on this website.

Online Entry - OPENED and Maps produced by Champion

The online to this years installment of the Port Hills Spring Rogaine is now available on:
Online Entry now closed (22/8-2016)

Furthermore we are proud to announce that we once again are using maps produced by Champion Rogainer and Adventure Racer: Chris Forne.

2016 Event Details

The 2016 version of the Port Hills Spring Rogaine is starting to take a bit of shape with the date and start times finalized. We will keep you posted with further developments.