Australian Rogaing Champs 2010
David Baldwin / 22.02.2010
The 2010 Australian Championships on 27-28 March will be hosted by the ACT Rogaining Association and held in the beautiful Snowy Mountains, a 2.5 hour drive from Canberra.Click on the website <a href="#"onClick="javascript:newsitewindow('http://rogaine.asn.au/')"class="main">here</a> for all the latest news from The Australian Rogaining Assoc.
There's a lot of new content on the website if you haven't looked recently - plenty of photos to entice you taken during course setting and vetting which was completed mid January. We've really enjoyed it and are sure you will too!
In the meantime if you are curious for more info on the sport of rogaining and want to know why its so popular with Adventure Racing folk read on:
Rogaining is the sport of long distance cross-country navigation. The championship rogaine is a continuous twenty four hour event. Teamwork, endurance, strategy and map reading are features of the sport. Rogaining originated in Australia, where the sport can be traced to the creation of the rules in 1968 and the first intervarsity 24 hour score orienteering competition in 1969.
The objective of rogaining is to collect the highest score by finding checkpoints within a set time limit. Teams of two to five members travel entirely on foot, navigating with the aid of a topographic map and analogue compass. Teams select their own order of visiting checkpoints, in terrain that varies from open countryside to hilly forest. The classic rogaine includes both day and night navigation.
At many rogaines a central base camp provides hot meals and teams may return at any time to eat, rest or enjoy the fellowship. Teams travel at their own pace, and anyone from children to grandparents can experience the personal satisfaction that comes from cross-country navigation at individual levels of competition and comfort.
Rogaining aims to support and encourage people to develop respect for and enjoyment of rural and forest environments; and to encourage the development of navigational skills, self reliance, general fitness, and the ability to work in a team.
