Orienteering News - 25 August 2025

This is the seventh local event in the 2025 orienteering local series for southern Tasmania.

The event uses the Tolosa map and is focused on the mountain bike park area and surrounding areas. Local event - Four courses are available – Long, Medium, Short, Novice. 

More information and pre entry is available on Eventor

Where is the Assembly Area

The assembly area is at the west end of Tolosa Street, Glenorchy, at the entrance to the Glenorchy Mountain Bike Park. Parking is limited in the area.

Please leave the area in front of the gate clear for emergency access.

Brought to you by the SHOC and Australopers this will be a great warm up the Tasmanian Long Distance Championships to be held the next day at Bells Marsh. The terrain is a navigationally tricky mix of tin mining and undulating spur gully with some granite detail. 

More information and pre entry is available on Eventor

Where is the Assembly Area?

The assembly area is located on Ericksons Road at Goshen. Coordinates are -41.311742, 148.114881. From St Helens proceed north along the Tasman Highway passing the Priory turnoff at 2.5k and the Shop in the Bush at 6.8k. At 11 km from St Helens, turn left onto Terryvale Road, driving south on gravel for 2 km, then bear left onto Ericksons Road and continue a further 2 km to the turnoff to the assembly area. 

When Can I Start? 

Start times will be between 12:00 am and 1:30 pm on Saturday.

I want to set up a 4-week Meta (Facebook / Instagram) campaign for our next Learn to Orienteer programmes, but my poor head is spinning and I’m hoping someone in the orienteering community can help me. If you have experience or know someone who can help, please contact Mike.

Thanks,

Mike Calder

Ph 0448 566 157

The September edition of The Australian Orienteer is in press, available online at https://issuu.com/orienteeringaustralia/docs/ao-sept25

Thank you to all the contributors!

Paper copies will be dispatched over the next few weeks. The magazine includes reports from major international orienteering events, including the World Orienteering Championships in Finland, the World Cup 1 in Sweden, the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Italy, the World Games in China, the World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships in Poland, the World Masters Orienteering Championships in Spain, the European Youth Orienteering Championships in Czechia, the preview of the Australian Schools Orienteering Championships 2025 in Queensland, and articles about technology in orienteering, mental training, plus much more. Interesting maps and great photographs, anyone should find something interesting to view in our magazine.

Happy reading.

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