St Helens Orienteering Event

Thursday, 24 October 2024

It feels like we've been pretty busy since getting back from Europe. One thing we were doing was organising an orienteering event in St Helens.  This meant lots of visits to the area to check control sites and clear paths through the thick gullies so the competitors could make it through on the day. This activity provided much joy and sustinence to the local leeches.

Despite my leech bitten ankles I found it was kind of nice moving through the bush slowly and taking the time to notice all the little things..

On the day the event went really well with very few hitches, despite the fact that after all our planning and checking we had change almost everything the weekend before when it became clear that the creek level wasn't going to drop low enough to get all our competitors (of all different ages) across to our planned start location safely.  

The following day was the Tasmanian Long Distance championships on another map nearby which was certainly long but was also really fun. One competitor came back with such an interesting shape on their shirt from some sort of altercation with a burnt tree that I want to use it somehow in the future so I'll leave this picture here to remind myself..

While we had a full house we took advantage of the numbers and held our first ever St Helens Orienteering Club AGM. I'm president, Jon is secretary and we strong-armed Jo to become treasurer on the proviso that there would be absolutely nothing to do..