Y2K Buggered 12 Hour USD Rogaine - 22nd/23rd January 2000
Control Number | Teams Visited | Control Number | Teams Visited | |
1 | 4 | 37 | 11 | |
2 | 3 | 38 | 13 | |
3 | 5 | 39 | 2 | |
4 | 18 | 40 | 15 | |
5 | 8 | 41 | 19 | |
6 | 3 | 42 | 38 | |
7 | 0 | 43 | 10 | |
8 | 7 | 44 | 13 | |
9 | 8 | 45 | 11 | |
10 | 19 | 46 | 26 | |
11 | 14 | 47 | 13 | |
12 | 7 | 48 | 15 | |
13 | 2 | 49 | 19 | |
14 | 6 | 50 | 19 | |
15 | 12 | 51 | 20 | |
16 | 8 | 52 | 35 | |
17 | 8 | 53 | 13 | |
18 | 31 | 54 | 35 | |
19 | 5 | 55 | 14 | |
20 | 2 | 56 | 10 | |
21 | 10 | 57 | 14 | |
22 | 9 | 58 | 15 | |
23 | 21 | 59 | 19 | |
24 | 13 | 60 | 23 | |
25 | 9 | 61 | 23 | |
26 | 12 | 62 | 12 | |
27 | 16 | 63 | 8 | |
28 | 10 | 64 | 13 | |
29 | 28 | 65 | 19 | |
30 | 10 | 66 | 33 | |
31 | 13 | 67 | 9 | |
32 | 17 | 68 | 45 | |
33 | 10 | 69 | 17 | |
34 | 12 | 70 | 12 | |
35 | 30 | 71 | 11 | |
36 | 13 | 72 | 28 |
Wandering around Wongamine 12 Hour USD Rogaine - 27th/28th February 1999
Control Number | Teams Visited | Control Number | Teams Visited | |
1 | 0 | 37 | 10 | |
2 | 0 | 38 | 16 | |
3 | 0 | 39 | 20 | |
4 | 20 | 40 | 10 | |
5 | 50 | 41 | 38 | |
6 | 49 | 42 | 10 | |
7 | 0 | 43 | 12 | |
8 | 0 | 44 | 10 | |
9 | 7 | 45 | 22 | |
10 | 22 | 46 | 33 | |
11 | 15 | 47 | 15 | |
12 | 19 | 48 | 17 | |
13 | 37 | 49 | 23 | |
14 | 26 | 50 | 29 | |
15 | 29 | 51 | 24 | |
16 | 10 | 52 | 40 | |
17 | 7 | 53 | 16 | |
18 | 31 | 54 | 13 | |
19 | 22 | 55 | 16 | |
20 | 10 | 56 | 31 | |
21 | 5 | 57 | 44 | |
22 | 23 | 58 | 41 | |
23 | 18 | 59 | 28 | |
24 | 27 | 60 | 20 | |
25 | 11 | 61 | 19 | |
26 | 24 | 62 | 50 | |
27 | 18 | 63 | 33 | |
28 | 23 | 64 | 10 | |
29 | 16 | 65 | 57 | |
30 | 9 | 66 | 28 | |
31 | 16 | 67 | 24 | |
32 | 51 | 68 | 10 | |
33 | 32 | 69 | 16 | |
34 | 16 | 70 | 20 | |
35 | 29 | 71 | 14 | |
36 | 4 | 72 | 15 |
I volunteered to set the Autumn 12 hour rogaine in 2010 shortly after the Australian Championships in 2009. I also approached Gary Carroll to be a cosetter and Keith Stewart and Steve Brown to be vetters. This would have been the same team that set and vetted the Australian Championships in 2009. We worked well together then and they all agreed to come on board. I had seen an interesting area that had not been used before and I made a couple of trips to talk to various farmers. The farmers I saw were agreeable to having an event, but there were many others that I needed to see. Other commitments prevented me spending as much time as was needed on talking to the farmers and then I travelled overseas for five weeks at Christmas. When I returned from the holiday I realized that time was becoming too short and I needed to find a site quickly. An examination of old rogaine maps gave me the idea of reusing the area used for the “A Picnic in the Pingle” event in 2000. I took a quick trip to the farm that is found in the centre of the area and met the farmers. They had allowed us to use their farm several times in the past and readily agreed to have us back another time. (The other area has been put on hold for another day).
At about this time Gary Carroll announced that he would not be able to help set the event as he was planning to move to Tasmania to live. I had no trouble in recruiting Jim Klinge, a friend and fellow master’s runner, to join the team as a setter. An application to use the area was sent off the DEC. As the area was also a drinking water catchment DEC had to refer the application to the Water Corporation. Luckily the approval process did not take too long and we were able to start planning the course. The only restriction we faced was a request to stay out of some areas due to the
presence of rare flora, which caused some inconvenience as we had already planned half a dozen controls in the restricted areas.
The loss of Gary Carroll from the team gave us a name for the event. After a number of trips, we had 69 controls set and a map prepared. Considerable effort went into selecting suitable control sites, and the vetting process went well – four controls had to be repositioned (wrong place) and several more were moved because of concerns about the feature (usually too vague). The position of all controls was verified using a
GPS. The weekend before the event we hung the controls.
The Friday before the event went smoothly. The various tents were erected and a fire was prepared. Keith and I had spent some time collecting firewood in my trailer. Ron Lockley and friends obviously thought our efforts were inadequate and they proceeded to drag larger logs to the fire site with 4WD vehicles. On Friday evening we organised a free sausage sizzle. This was well attended and encouraged people to come and socialize. We put out some of the water drops on Friday afternoon and the rest on Saturday morning.
Saturday turned out to be a cool day that was ideal for rogaining. A light shower of rain in the morning did not cause too many problems. Competitors were faced with a varied course – hilly in the west and south-west with tightly spaced controls and good points per kilometre, or flatter with more widely spaced controls in the east and lower points per kilometre. People went everywhere, which was pleasing for the organizers, and there were some good scores achieved. The winning team went east and collected nearly all controls (except one of the 100-pointers in the NE corner (!) and then headed west, but ignored the extreme west of the course.
I’m not sure what happened out on the course, but I do know that Administration operated efficiently and that the Hash House fed everyone to their satisfaction.
If you competed in the event I do hope that you had a memorable rogaining experience.
Jim Langford on behalf of the setting and vetting team
Planning...
Back in June last year, having collected some controls at the end of the Oz Championships, I had a brief chat to Jim Langford about volunteering to help set or vet a Rogaine. Before I knew it, I was volunteered to set the next March 6 hour event.
I’d heard that Alcoa were going to be moving their mining operations north towards Karnet and so thought it would be good to get a Rogaine up there before everyone was locked out of the area. Since it was only about twenty minutes from home, I’d also be
saving myself some travel time.
I consulted my fellow setter to see what he thought, and he kindly offered to allow me to get all the approvals sorted out. When I was ready to start setting he would be ready to help out. So I started searching the area for a suitable Hash House site outside the drinking water catchment and finally, by chance, I knocked on Ruth Fawcett’s door. Ruth and Geoff were more than happy to have a few hundred people camped out in their orchard, and walking all over the place.
Several months later, just in time for Christmas, I received the formal approval from DEC to use an area bounded by the Reservoir Protection Zones of North Dandalup Dam to the southwest and Serpentine Dam to the east, an area to be imminently closed off by Alcoa to the southeast and private land to the west and north. This, I thought, gave me an area just big enough for a six hour Rogaine ... little did I know.
In early January, Gary Carroll got me started with OCAD and the map data. Somewhat behind schedule with the setting process, I was now ready to get my fellow setter involved and start setting controls. Alas, I found that he was going to be away for all of January. So, with the setting and vetting team now reduced to a team of one (me), Gary started a flurry of emails which, within a couple of days, resulted in Peter Beyer joining me with the setting and Wil and Ricky coming on board as vetters.
Within 24 hours of Peter joining the team we were out setting our first controls and, with some careful alignment of our calendars, just over three weeks later (one of which I was away on holidays) we finished setting our last control and celebrated with an elated run back to the car.
By this stage it had become evident that we probably had a much bigger area than we needed. With no obvious area that could be cut from the map we figured the larger map provided more route choices, so we stuck with what we had planned. The gullies, both broad/indistinct and well-defined, had shown themselves to be full of sometimes impenetrable vegetation.
Wil and Ricky (with some secret helpers) soon vetted all the controls and, with a few minor changes to control locations and adding “broad” to half the control descriptions, the map and control descriptions were done.
...Now it was time to hang the controls and Wil and I wanted to check out the steep gully north of 102 (to see what it would be like traversing between 102 and 75). So we parked just south of 102 which we hung. Then we split up, with Wil going to 20 and I going to 75, planning to meet up again at 76 and continue on back to our other car which we’d left at the lookout at 103. This was when the fun started. After descending
most of the way to the river bed I realised I was no longer carrying the control for 75, so I had to head back up the hill searching for where I’d dropped it. A quick call to Wil over the dodgy mobile coverage revealed that he wasn’t having much luck getting to 20 either as he couldn’t find a place to get down into the dry river bed. Eventually, after doubling back all the way up the hill to 102 and back down a bit, I was
lucky enough to find the control on the ground. In the meantime Wil had doubled back to 74, which we’d already hung, to get across the river. Finally about two hours after starting off for 102 we finished the 3 km back to Wil’s car at 103 (the trials and tribulations are sometimes the most fun and the most memorable).
Shane Lewis
... The Breakout Day
Close to Perth, and off South West Highway, past Serpentine and up into the escarpment, the Fawcett Orchard Farm had a magical hide-away clearing surrounded by bush, pine trees, orchard and the adjacent farm dam. A good turn out of rogainers, including a large number of novices and novice teams, gathered to prepare themselves for the 3 pm afternoon dash to spread out into the far flung areas of the Serpentine bush and hopefully return by the allocated 9 pm. (The generous course was large enough that several controls on the ‘South Side’ were not even visited...)
(This southern area was being prepared for Alcoa mining and this was the last opportunity to go to this
bush area before the mining occurs.)
There were some delightful thicketed water course controls as desirable 90 pointer controls which were there to tempt the adventurous...
For those interested in the competitive side of things: Ashley and Owen Horton, the winners, did a large loop around the Rogaine site and although they did not manage to return within the cut-off time of 9 pm and lost some points, they still emerged happy and triumphant.
Their course took them to almost the extreme southern reaches of the Rogaine area where up to 18 teams reached the intermediate southern Berkeley Road area (Nightingales sang in Berkeley Square).
Later that night, lost or late teams straggled in or were picked up close to the Hash House to the relief of the rescue teams and organisers.
Features of the course were the mainly bush site, stream locations, log crossings, the waterfall control, and even city and Indian Ocean glimpses from the furthest west controls. Broad features, broad knolls and some impenetrable gully thicket vegetation tested the mettle of all.
Shane had designed the course to spread out the teams, and also see if the pros could be tempted to extend themselves. Well done Shane!
Thanks to those who wanted moreQ and promptly went out to collect the controls either immediately after the days event; that night or... bright and early in the following morning.
Peter Beyer