A strong contingent of Tasmanian orienteers made its way to Orange over Easter to take part in the Australian 3-day championships. This series of races was scheduled to take place in 2020, but due to COVID, was postponed until 2021. While this gave us an extra year to hone our orienteering skills, it also gave the forest another year to grow a little thicker, the visibility to reduce to nearly zero and the technical challenge to escalate to AMOST IMPOSSIBLE. On Day 1, we were treated to a new area of tightly-packed rock, unusual cliff formations and criss-crossing middle-distance courses that kept us on our toes. Most of us rose to the challenge, shook off the ‘Day 1’ nerves and started to…
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