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Hawkes Bays pint-sized super hero Ross Morrison leapt mountains in a single bound, survived scrubland infested by rabid bill goats, wooed the damsel in distress and eventually demolished a quality orienteering field to establish himself at the top of the orienteering food chain in New Zealand. The king of his…
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castle. It didnt start off so well. In the opening event on the famous "Slump" map inland from Puketapu Ross was held to 3rd place by wily veterans Carsten Jorgensen and Darren Ashmore. The steep broken farm landscape with pockets of native and exotic vegetation, eroded gully systems and rock outcrops required careful navigation and rewarded consistency rather than outright pace especially early in the course where Ross, and plenty of others, lost time to the top two. In fact much of the field was out of contention after the first two controls, a difficult diagonal downhill leg across a…
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