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Stepping on the Hot Rocks at Otago…

Rocks as far as the eye reached was the sight that met us as we travelled the last kilomatres to the event centres of the 2007 Otago Champs just out of the Middlemarch township. This orienteering playground provided lots of exciting control sites. As the ground was hard and fast…
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the challenge was to keep up speed and direction and still be able to navigate between the rocks. Most mistakes were made due to too high speed into the controls and thereby not having the navigation accuracy needed to go straight to the control site. The fields in the elite classes were the best seen in the South Island for a while as the support from Bendigo Valley Sport & Charity Foundation had made it possible for some of the best North Islanders to travel down and race aorund in the rocks. On sundays long distance the course planner Jim…

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