Orienteering in the Night and Day at Bri-Glen

Thursday, 23 May 2013

Orienteers travelled to Bri-Glen north of Hallet last weekend to tackle the spur-gully mallee covered terrain in both the SA Night Championships and the Long Distance course of the Badge Event the next day.

Tjuringa and course setter Lee Merchant ran the night event, Lee attempted to set courses with route choice but that were fair at night.  So many legs had a longer easier route choice option with catching features for most controls.  However many orienteers realised how much harder relocation is at night than in the daylight as small mistakes easily led to time wasted trying to get back on course.  A feature was the extra refreshments and coloured lights with accompanying music at the Disco “drinks” station.  Many orienteers lingered here longer than normal for the refreshments.

Refreshments on the Night Courses

Yalanga won the club Night Championships trophy and Bridget Anderson and Simon Uppill the Open Women’s and Men’s classes respectively.

Yalanga presented the Badge event on the Sunday, with the longer courses of this event set by Steve Cooper.   The longest course of 11.3 km again saw Simon Uppill the quickest, in a time of 65:52 mins, with Bridget Anderson likewise being successful in the longest women’s course of 9 km.  All courses had to negotiate the complex of erosion gullies in the southern part of the map in the latter part of the courses.

All results for the events can be found at http://www.sa.orienteering.asn.au/results/2013/http://www.sa.orienteering.asn.au/results/2013/

Bridget Anderson and Conrad Elson at the Badge Event

Part of the Bri-Glen Map