Bush, Mountain Bike & Street Orienteering

As usual, Yarra Val­ley will be organ­is­ing its share of evening and Sat­ur­day after­noon events dur­ing the 2013 Win­ter Series. There are night events every Mon­day and Wednes­day from  late March to mid Octo­ber and on Tues­days from March till the end of May.  There is sure to be some­thing near where you live. Check …

On Sat­ur­day 27 April, Yarra Val­ley organ­ised the Vic­to­rian Sprint Moun­tain Bike Ori­en­teer­ing cham­pi­onships on our Clinker Hill MTBO map in south Castle­maine.   The area incor­po­rates some streets and urban parks as well as some bush with an aque­duct and aque­duct track …

Yarra Valley’s annual gen­eral meet­ing was held on Sat­ur­day April 20th.  The exec­u­tive for 2013 hasn’t changed from 2012: David God­dard is Pres­i­dent, Kathy Liley is Vice Pres­i­dent, Belinda Dale is Sec­re­tary and Sheila Colls is Trea­surer. Also at the AGM, Sheila was …

YVOC mem­bers are ‘com­ing back to earth’ after a busy Easter week­end in and around Bendigo. YVOC was the main organ­is­ing club for the  sprint event on Good Fri­day at the La Trobe Uni­ver­sity Bendigo cam­pus.  Over 400 run­ners from all Aus­tralian states enjoyed their …

A lunch to mark the club’s 40th anniver­sary was held at Yer­ing Mead­ows Golf Club (in the Yarra Val­ley) on Sat­ur­day 6 Octo­ber.  There was a great turnout of cur­rent and past mem­bers, who enjoyed lunch, mem­o­ra­bilia dis­play and pow­er­point show, some rem­i­nis­cences from three influ­en­tial and long-standing mem­bers, and a short, enter­tain­ing cabaret …

The first order for the new Yarra Val­ley club uni­forms has been placed.  Thankyou to Mel Gangemi and Kathy Liley for find­ing suit­able sup­pli­ers and arrang­ing the orders, and toKather­ine Dent for re-working her design for the new cloth­ing.  Yarra Val­ley ori­en­teers will cer­tainly look dis­tinc­tive and classy out in the bush, even …

Ted van Gel­der­malsen is the Yarra Val­ley Club Cham­pion for 2012 after an almost error-free run at Irish­town on May 27th.  Ted com­pleted the M55 course of 6.1 km in 61 min­utes, 14 secs.  The Irish­town map cov­ers areas of com­pli­cated gold­min­ing ter­rain and it is easy to get lost amongst the mounds and …