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Orienteering: Intense and Scenic!!

While the 20th century was dominated by spectator sport practised in a confined space, as we move into the 21st sports that break the boundaries, and involves mass participation in the outdoorsare growing from strength to strength. People are vacating the courts, the halls and the fields to head for…
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the roads, the mountains and the forests, to practice their sports in new and challenging environments. One sport that captures this post modern sporting market perfectly is orienteering, the map sport that explores urban fringes, farms, forests and wildlands throughout the country. The recently held South Island Champs epitomised the adventure that is to be found in this misunderstood sport. The events were held firstly on Canaan Downs, the amazing plateau above Abel Tasman National Park famouslyhome to the original"Gathering" dance party and secondly in the glacial moraine of Lake Rotoiti in Nelson Lakes National Park. Orienteering seeks out unique…

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