Labour Weekend 2018, incorporating the WOA Championships, will be held in the  sunny Wairarapa based around Masterton.

Enter at https://entries.wellingtonorienteering.org.nz/   Entries close 7 October.

Saturday 20 October: Riverside/Riverlands

• 15km N or Masterton
• Middle distance, start times from 1pm
• Planner: Malcolm Ingham
• Largely river flats with multiple gullies and depressions and scattered copses of  open native forest, but bordered by a rocky steep slope.

Sunday 21 October: Mingimingi/Glenlean

• 35 km E of Masterton
• Long/multi-day distance
• Planner: Bryan Teahan
• A mixture of spur-gully pine forest (Mingimingi) and the grass carpet, rock and native-clad gullies of Glenlean.  Mingimingi has only been used in competition for the long distance event of the 2017 NZSS Championships, and has since been extended.

Monday 22 October: Mingimingi/Glenlean

• 35 km E of Masterton
• Multi-day distance, course closure 3pm
• Planner: Stuart Engleback
• A mixture of spur-gully pine forest (Mingimingi) and the grass carpet, rock and native-clad gullies of Glenlean.  Mingimingi has only been used in competition for the long distance event of the 2017 NZSS Championships, and has since been extended.