Previous news and announcements

Sunday 28th July 2019

Location: Owen Rd, Darlington

Venture up into the hills for some mountain bike riding on the historic Heritage Trail through the scenic suburbs of Darlington, Glen Forrest and Boya. The creeks are flowing and the waterfalls are worth viewing. The assembly area is near the Darlington Hall and right opposite the local Perrella’s Café. So grab a coffee and eats before or after your ride.

Three courses have been planned and are slightly shorter than normal due to the hilly...

24th and 25th August, 2019

MTBO Champs Weekend

The season finale for MTBO launches on the weekend of August 24 and 25. The Middle Distance Championships on Saturday afternoon at popular Langford Park, near Jarrahdale, will be followed on Sunday morning by the Long Distance Championships at Marrinup North—a new map to the north west of Dwellingup. The experienced setters Ian Dalton (KO, Middle) and Duncan Sullivan (LO, Long) are sure to provide plenty of challenges in the mixed eucalypt...

Sunday 21st July 2019

Location: Avon Valley National Park

The State Middle Distance Championships will take place on the Quarry Road part of the Avon Valley map located off Toodyay Road. Come and enjoy the challenge of an old favourite, first used for the National Carnival in 1988. Courses traverse a range of terrain comprising broad laterite ridges flanked by deeply dissected watercourse systems and complex rock detail. Vegetation varies from very open woodland to locally thick cover along...

Saturday 20th July 2019

Location: Edith Cowan University, Mt Lawley

The Sprint Distance SOL will take place at ECU Mt. Lawley on Saturday afternoon, July 20th. Come and enjoy running around the university campus with sprint distance style and warm up for the Middle Distance Champs the next day!

Be sure to enter the appropriate course for you age group if you'd like to qualify for the State O League (SOL) Orienteer of the Year competition!

Newcomers and families welcome! There will be friendly...

25th May 2019

Location: Banyowla Regional Park, Mills Rd East, Martin

The second mountain bike orienteering event for the year will be held in bushland in the Kelmscott/Martin area of the Perth hills. This is a great area to get on your bike, hit the hills and hone those navigational skills.

Banyowla MTBO map is known for being hilly, but do not despair! The MTBO course lengths have been shortened drastically. Short courses stay to the North east of the map, with minimal climb and estimated...

Sunday 26th May 2019

Location: Fauntleroy Avenue, Ascot

The NavDash series continues at Garvey Park, which is more like compact bush orienteering. The terrain is open grass, complex vegetation, rough open woodland with lakes and marshes. Bring everyone and have a run around one of Perth’s excellent riverside parks. There are no contours, but there is plenty of bush and plenty of fast running.

Registration times: 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Start times: 9:30 am – 11:00 am
Courses close: 12:00 pm

Sunday 2nd June and Monday 3rd June 2019

Location: Kenine Hill, Near Woodanilling

The WA Classic is an annual 2 day event for which awards are made for first male and first female on each course, based on cumulative time over the two-day results.

While either day can be entered as a standalone single day event, only those people who enter both days and run the same course each day will be eligible for the WA Classic overall awards.

Pre-entry is available via Eventor and ENCOURAGED. This allows...

Sunday 9th June 2019

Location: Beeches Mews, Brigadoon

Russell's Gully is fairly open running, with patches of thick vegetation that can mostly be avoided. There are scattered bare rock surfaces which are steep in places. As this map is over a gully, some climbing can't be avoided, but there are views from the top!

Start and Finish is ~200 m away, with a 20 m climb down to the start and back up from the finish.

Courses:
Easy: 1.5 km, red line distance, climb 25 m
Short Hard: 2.3 km, red...

Saturday 8th June 2019

Location: Dale Road, east of Karragullen

 MTBO Guided Tour

Natasha Sparg, your accredited Level 1 Mountain Bike Coach, will run a 'Guided Tour' before this event (11-12 am). We will take you for a short social ride, enhancing up some bike handling skills and building confidence with navigation skills along the way. This is for people who are new to mountain biking or orienteering or who would just like a social ride. The tours cater for any age and no MTBO experience is...

Sunday 23th June 2019

Location: SW Malmalling, east of Mundaring

The first SOL competition of the year will be held at Malmalling, an area that is a mixture of open, fast running with sections of dense grass trees and complex rock detail.

This Middle Distance SOL has expected winning times of 25-35 minutes. The assembly area is further down Gorrie Road than has been used in recent years, providing a different perspective of the map. Parking is along Gorrie Road and on the tracks to the north...

Sunday 30th June 2019

Location: The Dell, Mundaring Weir Rd, Paulls Valley

Come bring your bike, a picnic and enjoy your Sunday in the forests around Mundaring Weir!

Ricky has planned a special 90 minute score course with a marked route and mapped controls. Follow the marked route around the single track to collect the unmapped 20 point controls (optional) or make your own way to collect the mapped 10 and 30 point controls.
Deviate from the route and risk missing an unmapped control, but it is...

Sunday 7th July 2019

Location: Red Hill, John Forrest National Park NE

Come along to a bush area relatively close to Perth. This event revisits a rarely used NE map area of JFNP and a new assembly area on private land in Parkerville Heights.
There’s Malmalling winery about a kilometre away if you don’t fancy a picnic lunch in the great outdoors.
Get your 2 hours in Nature this weekend at Red Hill!

Beginners and families are welcome and instruction is available!

Registration times: 9:00 am – 11:00 am

Calling all Juniors!

Get the School Holidays off to a bang with a fun-filled weekend at Camp Kerem, led by our Coach-in-Residence, Michal Hubáček. Develop your orienteering skills and enjoy time spent with orienteering friends.

Registration now closed! For more information check out the training page here.

The Final Bulletin for all competitors is now available and provides all the essential information you need to enjoy all the events. Print your own copy or copies will be available at registration, limited to 1 copy per family group/couple.

Event Schedule:

19th April: Go for 2&5 Sprint Relay Day
20th-22nd April: Go for 2&5 Australian 3 Day Championships
25th April: Wandoo Wander Dryandra
26th April: Go for 2&5 Australian Sprint Orienteering Championships
27th April: Go for 2&5 Australian Middle...

Sunday, 26th May 2019

Garvey Park, Ascot

An interesting venue close to Perth on a perfect autumn day encouraged both members and newcomers to do a course or two. (tRicky, the running machine, did every course). Three sprint courses and one easy course were on offer. Despite being longer than recommended, the longer courses proved the most popular. Sunshine and route choices through water enticed many runners to take a splash. Vicky Brownlie and Mason Eves tried, but just got muddy; Gary Aitkin...