The Yarra Valley AGM was held at Darebin Parklands this year on April 13th. It was followed by a fun exercise organised by some of the junior members which was a cross between orienteering and an Easter egg hunt! After that came an excellent afternoon tea. The new committee for 2019 includes the following people: […]
A large number of Yarra Valley members travelled to Chewton for the 2018 long-distance championships on 16 September. The terrain contained much old gold-mining activity and enough hills to get the muscles pumping. YV ended up with 14 members in the placings at the presentations at the finish: 1st Place: Moira Kuffer (W21A), Heather O’Donnell […]
The new, updated, colour map of the Coburg Lake area was used for the first time on Saturday afternoon, August 4th. Over 100 people participated, then enjoyed afternoon tea where they compared route choices on the course set by Mel Gangemi and Tim Wardrop. Only one person managed to visit all 20 checkpoints but he …
On Sunday 29 July, Yarra Valley ran a MelBush-O event on the new map of “Yanakie Block”, not far from Sugarloaf Reservoir north-east of Melbourne. Ruth Goddard fieldworked and drew the map, then set the courses. Over 140 people made the short drive to participate on a perfect morning for a walk or jog …
The Victorian Middle and Long Distance championships were held on the weekend of 16-17 September in forest close to Creswick. Both events featured a mixture of terrain types, with detailed gold-mining terrain providing some serious navigational challenges. Due to rain on the preceding Friday, Slaty Creek was flowing freely and everyone got wet feet …
Hania Lada set the courses for Yarra Valley’s state series event on Sunday 25 June at Spring Gully, near Fryerstown (south of Chewton). Despite a worrying weather forecast, the rain held off until everyone was on their way home. …
During the Queen’s Birthday weekend in June this year, 30 Yarra Valley members ventured north of the border to take part in the Australian 3-Day event. The first two days’ courses were held in forest some distance from Wagga, but the final day was a sprint event in Wagga, partly in the Charles Sturt …
The 2017 Club Championship was held on Sunday June 4th at Irishtown on the unattractively named “Deadman’s Flat” map. It is an area of detailed remnant gold-mining terrain with sections of scrubby vegetation and not many tracks. And Yarra Valley’s 2017 club champion by a wide margin is the evergreen Alex Tarr who used …
Mill Park Lakes was the venue for event 6 of the Saturday afternoon park & street orienteering on 13 May. Amongst the crowd preparing for the 2pm start was the South Morang Scout Group with about 40 scouts, leaders and parents, about to tackle orienteering on their “home ground”. Ted van Geldermalsen won the …
Despite a rather cool day, there were plenty of experienced and new orienteers at Yarra Valley’s Mel Bush-O event on Sunday 7 May. In total, 183 individuals or groups were pretty evenly spread across the two Hard, one Moderate and one Easy navigation courses. Full results and lots of photos can be found on …