2025 Results

Rangituhi, Porirua: Sunday 7th December

• 6 hour rogaine
• 3 hour rogaine

Planner's Commentary

I hope everyone enjoyed the day in the hills – it is an amazing area and the bush just gets better every year. Big thanks go the councils and volunteers for all the traplines that facilitate that. And yes, those traplines were a bit of a trap. In the end I did not allow any claims. A few teams had trouble finding #82, but many more navigated to it fine. #33 was obviously a problem for many (and my apologies it was clearly not a good control!). In the end though 19 teams found the control which was more than claimed, so I did not allow the claim.

The control that gave me most cause to pause was #100. Many teams made it to the correct control (Mohuia) and wrote it down. However, a couple of teams were obviously confused by the “track junction” ribbon I had put up at the east of the ridge to guide people onto the unmarked ridge track and wrote that down as the control answer. I have to take some responsibility for that, so gave those people half points (50). Well done to those of you who made it to the actual control! And yes, there was a typo on control 23.

Arthur, Jerome, John, Mark and I had great fun over the past few months getting out to investigate the course and in the end every control was visited at least once. The most popular route seemed to be up the steps past 45 and 36 to the lookout at 74 and those steps are tough!

The winning score in the 3 hr was 890 (Danger Children) despite a time penalty and losing their claim for 33. They headed over to Spicers Forest and then got the farm controls, the Rangituhi control, and 74, 82 and 68 on the way down.

The winning score for the 6hr was Dubious Knolls with 1710 who made it all the way to the bottom of the map via the stairs to 74, Rangituhi and the farm and back via the Tawa forest tracks and down past the tip.

Jennie Cassie
Planner

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