Each year the Australian Orienteering Championships are held in a different state around the October long weekend. The maps and courses are of international standard. This year they were in South Australia around Renmark in the Riverland and east of Adelaide near the southern end of the Barossa Valley. A small but determined band of orienteers made the trip.
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| Where is Serena... |
For elite orienteers this is an opportunity to prove themselves in stiff competition. For the non-elite the age class challenge is there combined with the opportunity to meet up again with old friends and make new ones, and to explore another interesting part of Australia (mentioned in passing were Birds Australia Gluepot Reserve, Kangaroo Island, and the cycling paths of the Barossa).
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| Chest number in place |
The Australian Schools Championships is part of the carnival (set during the week when all Australian schools are on holiday), giving much encouragement to junior orienteers, and their parents.
Australian Middle Distance (Map: Crooked Straight, Renmark)
- M50A: 2 Shane Doyle
- W85A: 1 Maureen Ogilvie
Australian Sprint
Championships (Map: Renmark Schools)
- M50A: 1 Shane Doyle
- M80A: 2 Brian Cleland
- W85A: 1 Maureen Ogilvie
Australian Long
Distance (Map: Gumeracha Goldfields, east of Adelaide)
- M80A: 3 Brian Cleland
- W85A: 1 Maureen Ogilvie
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| What an opportunity to see the outcome of long term plantation forestry |
Australian Relay Championships (Map: Wiela - Bunyip Ridge, Remark)
Teams containing Uringa
members:
- WOpenB: Maree 3rd
- W21AS: Gayle 3rd
- M45A: Shane 3rd
South Australian
Championships Middle Distance (Map:
Keynes Gap)
The host state also usually runs a state championship event, and this one offered up some confronting rock.
- M45AS: 1 Ron Pallas
- M50A: 2 Shane Doyle
- M80A: 1 Brian Cleland
- W85A: 1 Maureen Ogilvie
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| Just nice open paddocks with occasional very old trees... |
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| ...but turn around and there was the (first) rocky ridge |
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| ...and coming down to the final controls took some care. |
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