Save the Date for 2025: Flat Top Hill!
14th September 2025

Our 2025 rogaine (organised alongside Central Otago Orienteering) will again have a course suited to all levels, loads of spot prizes, a bake sale and a BBQ.

Schedule on the day

09:00 – 4hr event registration opens

09:50 – 4hr briefing (compulsory)

10:00 – 4hr starts

10:30 – 2hr event registration opens

11:20 – 2hr briefing (Compulsory)

11:30 – 2hr event start

13:30 – 2hr finish

14:00 – 4hr finish

14:30 – Prizegiving

Event Description

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.

Past Results