Make sure you follow the facebook event HERE for updates too
Get ready for another year of fun, adventure, and discovery on a Brand new Map! Come explore some of Central Otago’s most iconic vistas while supporting a great cause.
There’ll be loads of spot prizes, a delicious bake sale, and a BBQ sizzling with your favourites to keep you fuelled and smiling throughout the day!
Date: 16th August
Location: Sugar Loaf – off Fraser dam road
All ages and skill levels welcome!
Whether you’re a seasoned rogainer or a first-timer, this is a great opportunity to get outdoors and challenge yourself in our beautiful backyard.
Schedule on the day
08:30 – 6hr event registration opens
09:20 – 6hr briefing (compulsory)
09:30 – 6hr starts
11:00 – 3hr event registration opens
11:50 – 3hr briefing (Compulsory)
12:00- 3hr event start
15:00 – 3hr finish
15:30 – 6hr finish
15:45 – Prizegiving
Any further questions, please email: coorienteering@gmail.com
Rogaining is the sport of long distance cross-country navigation. The championship rogaine is a continuous twenty four hour event. Teamwork, endurance, strategy and map reading are features of the sport. Rogaining originated in Australia, where the sport can be traced to the creation of the rules in 1968 and the first intervarsity 24 hour score orienteering competition in 1969.
The objective of rogaining is to collect the highest score by finding checkpoints within a set time limit. Teams of two to five members travel entirely on foot, navigating with the aid of a topographic map and analogue compass. Teams select their own order of visiting checkpoints, in terrain that varies from open countryside to hilly forest. The classic rogaine includes both day and night navigation.
Teams travel at their own pace, and anyone from children to grandparents can experience the personal satisfaction that comes from cross-country navigation at individual levels of competition and comfort.
Rogaining aims to support and encourage people to develop respect for and enjoyment of rural and forest environments; and to encourage the development of navigational skills, self reliance, general fitness, and the ability to work in a team.
