Vic Champs 2015 Report

Report – 2015 Victorian ARDF Championships

Dale Creek (Near Greendale), Wombat State Forest.

20th June 2015

Where is Greendale and what is the orienteering map?

A call to the Sheahans put me onto Lindsay Thomas of Tuckonie Orienteering Club. He searched his map archives and only found a scanned PDF, then E-mailed the Sunleys (now in Canberra) and Julie sent soft copies. In business! Off to the site to tape some control locations. It’s steep and thick in the gullies so I decide not to make it too serious. Charged and checked the transmitters, No. 4 did not work. Too late to obtain the spare, so the course was re-arranged to suit four transmitters.

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At the Start

 

On the day it was cold, cloudy and there was drizzle early on. Put out No 5 with assistance from a visiting ham from NSW (sorry, forgot the name and call) who was seeing how we do things. Returned to the start and some had arrived early, so left them to register while I put out the remaining three transmitters on foot. On my return Bruce had obviously heard the four going and got things started. It was interesting to see which way many went from the start and this was an indication of what was to happen out on the course. Basically reflections ruled the day and all competitors traveled significant distances chasing the imaginary!

See where they went on RouteGadget.

In short it was extremely challenging, more than intended… Well, they all seemed to have fun. Dianne and Henk had the best walk after losing concentration on the way back and going the wrong way down one of the many tracks!

Bruce just winning by a small time margin from Kristian. Apologies for not clarifying a time limit. After Tx pickup it was off to the Greendale pub!

Grant Jeffrey VK3KGM

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TX #5, Way down south

 

Results

Name Start Finish Duration CPs
Bruce Paterson

1320

1449

1h 29min 1,2,3,5.
Kristian Ruuska

1335

1509

1h 34min 1,2,3,5.
Greg Williams

1345

1517

1h 32min 1,2,3.
Doug Canning

1340

1544

2h 4min 2,3.
Ewen Templeton

1325

1550

2h 25min 2,3,5.
Jenelle Templeton

1330

1506

1h 36min none
Jack Bramham

1315

1505

1h 50min none
Dianne Shalders

1310

1654

Very long 1,2,3.
Henk DeJong

1310

1654

Time! 1,2,3.