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100 Points Control Out

Here is a quick post to let everybody know, that control code 100 - worth a 100 points is out.

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Maps will be available with additional, optional, untimed and unscored control sites to visit on bike for those wanting to supplement their rogaine experience with some bike navigational training. The training will mainly be on the roads in the flat area surrounding Tai Tapu.

This option is only available for the 3 hour participants due to the timing constraints.

Entries are now open for the 2018 Port Hills Spring Rogaine.

This year the event centre will be near Tai Tapu so that participants can enjoy new areas of the Port Hills. There will be the same great soup and muffins afterwards! The checkpoint locations have been chosen so all abilities can have a great day out on the hills. Get your team together and enter now.

Entries are limited to 400 participants and may close before the closing date of September 4th, if the entry limit is reached.

Entry Closed 

Port Hills Spring Rogaine 2018 - 9th of September

Now the date has been set for the 2018 version of the Port Hills Spring Rogaine.

Mark Sunday the 9th of September in your calendar.

At the moment we are working on land owner contact to establish exactly where on the Port Hills this year's event will take place.

We'll keep you posted here as soon as we get more event details sorted.

Spring Hills Spring Rogaine 2017 - Wrap Up

Thank you all for coming along and supporting the 2017 Spring Rogaine and I hope you all enjoyed exploring some new areas on the Port Hills. The weather could have been a bit kinder, but it could have been a lot crueler as well! We would like to acknowledge with much gratitude all of the landowners:  Christchurch City Council, Department of Conservation and the Taylors Mistake Residents' association. 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 valley above Taylor's Mistake is not usually open to the public.

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/

Lost property: We had a walking stick handed in so if you lost one let us know.

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

The last of the Wednesday Evenings “Bivouac Night Navigation Series” is happening in Bottle Lake forest from the visitor's centre car park this Wednesday (20th September). The format is a 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. For more details see:

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!

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

Port Hills Spring Rogaine Team

PS Sorry this is a bit delayed coming out - we came straight out of the rogaine onto organising school orienteering trainings culminating in the school festival event this weekend.

6 Hour Results

Here are the 6 hour results:
6_Hour_Results (last update 7:20 AM 5/9-2017)
A wrap up email will be posted here tomorrow night as well as emailed to the participants. Hope every one had a great day out there on the hills despite the cold southerly wind.