At a glittering ceremony on Saturday night many, many awards were handed out. Congratulations to all winners! Pictured are our top five most excellent orienteers (L to R) - Chris Brown, Sue Hancock, Jeff Dunn, Cathy McComb, and Jon McComb with Valerie Brammall. Read on for more winners.

Due to forecast heavy rain in the south east for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the Campania event will be unable to go ahead as creeks will likely be uncrossable again. Since this is the last OST event of the year and your last chance to gain OST and Excellence points, we have decided to postpone both the Campania event AND the awards dinner to the following week - Saturday 23 October. There is also a local event on at Lieemunetta on Sunday 24th, so it's a great opportunity for northerners to come south for an action-packed weekend. This also…

Orienteering's BIG night out. Let’s make a big effort to honour all the Award winners by pretending we have a long red carpet, cameras and lights aplenty and then we all strut our stuff. Drag your finery out the back of the wardrobe and let’s party! Nothing will be OTT or too outrageous! Check out the dress code. You don't even need to wear a mask (unless you want to). Venue is now New Town Bay Rowing Centre. Entries close midnight Tuesday 19 Oct. For all the details and to enter see here.

It wasn’t quite the Australian Orienteering Championships, but The Carnival That Never Will Be was a very enjoyable event for the over 150 participants. We were blessed with sensational sunny and calm weather for the UTas Sprint, Tas Middle Champs, Bosses Rocks Score and Turbo Chook 1. The rain threatened but held off for Turbo Chook 2 at Mt Pearson, and, well, … it could have been worse for Turbo Chook 3. It was almost The Carnival That Was Never Meant To Be when we heard the week before that the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service was…

SAVE THE DATE! The Annual Awards Dinner will be held at The Lindisfarne Rowing Club on Saturday Oct 16th. A short and painless Special General Meeting of Orienteering Tasmania will held at the commencement of the evening. Lindisfarne Rowing Club, 16A Esplanade, Lindisfarne 16 October 2021, 6.30pm The business to be transacted is to receive the 2020 audited financial report (an interim unaudited report was discussed at the AGM).