Western Australia hosts the 2009 Australian Championship on 6-7 June which coincides with the Queen's Birthday long weekend in the eastern states. The "Wandering West Rogaine" will be held 100km south east of Perth. Further details and entries on the WARA event website.
The Australian University Championship will be held on 1-2 August 2009 in conjunction with the ACT Rogaining Championship.
New Zealand will be running the next World Rogaining Championships. The event is planned for 20-21 November 2010, and will be held in open hill country near the town of Cheviot, 120 km north of Christchurch. NZRA website.
The 2008 Australian Rogaine Championships were run at Copeton Waters in northern NSW on August 15 & 16.
Overall winners and first mixed team were David Baldwin, Julie Quinn (ACT) and Phil Whitten (NSW) who visited all controls in 22:12. Second place and first mens team was Stu Adams and Mike Hotchkis (NSW) who also cleaned up in 22:59. Third place was Greig Hamilton and Robert Jarvis (NZ) who also got all controls in 23:44. Womens winners were Belinda Bright, Gill Fowler and Alexa McAuley (NSW).
NSW won the Interstate Challenge trophy.
See preliminary results and photos (ACT website) or NSWRA event site.
There is now a moon calendar on the events calendar - look below the Events Legend in the right column. You can choose the year and it will give you the list of all the full moon dates for the year. The date may not be exact due to time zones, but will be near enough to work out the best weekends.
There is also a display of the current moon phase on the home page and the Events page.
The results of the 2006 Australian Championship held near St Arnaud in Victoria are now available. The 2006 Australian Rogaining Champions are:
The 2006 World Rogaining Championship is to be held on 13/14 October 2006 in the Warrumbungle National Park and adjacent farm land near Coonabarabran, NSW. Entry for the World Rogaining Championship has closed. There are currently 690 entries in 308 teams. Entries have been received from Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, Ukraine, USA, Japan and Australia. Organiser is New South Wales Rogaining Association.
WRC 2006 web site…
David Rowlands
ARA Secretary