View from the chair – August 2023

It has been a super exciting month with many orienteers competing overseas (so many I started to wonder if anyone was left in NZ!), and some great results by a number of elite, junior, and age grade orienteers – all covered in detail elsewhere in this compass point, so won’t detail here other than to […]

Orienfearing |  Southland terror terrain

“They hovered silently at the track edge, staring intently into your soul as if waiting to take you into the underworld. One of them lurked behind the control and drifted slowly like the morbid undead towards you as you approached, making you race to dib your stick and be gone before she got there first and […]

Swiss O Week |  Junior males take the podium

A late report from an event in July in between the big competitions. The official number of participants in the Swiss O Week 2023 is 4,683 people, with up to 40 countries represented.  We were all given a huge paperback handbook with176 pages of information for a 6 day event! The transport was amazing from the buses around Flims […]