President’s Introduction

Kia ora all. Thanks to Rob Garden, Marquita Gelderman & Jenny Cade for organising our third rogaine of the series. I've also been very impressed again by the willingness of first time volunteers to jump in. While the series was very profitable for us, all events were record breakers, and pushed parts of our operational capacity to the limit. We are leaning into this growth with upskilling opportunities for members, so stay tuned for them.

Newsletter Contents

• Auckland Calendar of Events 
  • Forest Event 12 July
  • Forest Cup
• Club Nights
• Key events coming up around New Zealand
  
  • Great Forest Rogaine
  • Vegas Vindaloo MTBO weekend
  • Tūāraki North Orienteering Champs, Rotorua, November
• Schools Orienteering
  
  • NZSS Champs
• North West's Rogaine Series 2025 - review
• Member News
  
  • Club Events
    • North West Club Champs
    • Auckland Interclub Relays
    • North West End of Year Event
  • NWOC Member Training Day
  • North West Club shirts
  • Member Awards
    • NZ Secondary Schools Southern Cross Team
    • AKSS Rogaine Results
  • World Cup 2025 - a review by Renee Beveridge
  • New Members

Auckland Calendar of Events 

The next event in the Auckland Calendar is a Forest Event on Saturday 12 July. This is part of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Champs being hosted by Auckland Club. The public event follows the NZSS Long event on the Mushroom Road map in Woodhill Forest. Event details here Enter here 

Forest Cup 2025

The forest cup is a 5-race event shared by the three Auckland Region Clubs (NWOC, CMOC, and AOC) and Orienteering Waikato. There will be a points competition across the series culminating in a Series Finale on the 14th of September.

Dates of Events are

• Sunday 10 August
• Sunday 17 August
• Sunday 24 August
• Sunday 7 September*
• Sunday 14 September

Each event caters for the full range of orienteering courses - white, yellow, orange and red. Pre-entry is preferred and is via enterO

Details of each event will be posted on the Events Calendar on our North West website and on the Forest Cup page here.

*The event on Sunday 7 September doubles as North West's Club Champs for 2025. Details to come. 

Club Nights

Club nights are held every second Wednesday, at 6:30pm, at St George’s Scout Hall, 13 Griffin Ave, Epsom. The next session is on this Wednesday 2 July. 

Other Auckland events

Details of all upcoming events in the wider Auckland area for 2025 are added to our NWOC website here 

New Zealand wide events are on Orienteering New Zealand’s website here

Key events coming up around NZ

Great Forest Rogaine - Whakarewarewa Forest, Rotorua - 26 July 2025

Entries are open for the 2025 Great Forest Rogaine (GFR).  GFR is a fun, team navigation challenge where you try to collect as many controls as you can in the time allowed.  There are 3 or 6 hour events and you can do it on foot or on a mtb.  A great adventure to do with friends and family.  Details here Enter here Entries close 22 July.

Vegas Vindaloo MTBO Weekend

An event for all Mountain Bike Orienteers to be held in Rotorua over the weekend of 20 and 21 September. Details to come here

Tūāraki North Orienteering Champs, Rotorua, November

Tūāraki Northern Regional Champs is an annual event which this year will be hosted by Orienteering Bay of Plenty & Taupo Orienteering. This is an event suitable for members at all levels of orienteering. The event includes:

Saturday 8 November

• Sprint at The Toi Ohomai Campus & Tihiotonga Centennial Park, Rotorua
• Middle - venue tbc

Sunday 9 November

• Long event at Opepe on the Napier-Taupo Highway.

More details, including entry info to come here

Schools Orienteering

NZ Secondary School Champs - Friday 11 July to Sunday 13 July

Good luck to all our NWOC Juniors competing in the NZSS Champs.

Keep up to date with details of NZSS Champs here

North West Rogaine Series 2025

Our 2025 Rogaine Series was one of our best ever with record numbers of people attending - the last event attracted 800⁺ competitors! We are grateful to everyone who attended and to all those who contributed to the series success.  

For reports on each rogaine go here

• Rogaine 1
• Rogaine 2
• Rogaine 3

A BIG thank to Bivouac Outdoor who have been our series sponsor for many years and to Graze for their support as a North West Club Sponsor. Thanks too to The Riverhead for their donation of meal vouchers. 

During National Volunteer Week we made a series of posts as 'shout outs' to all our wonderful volunteers. The photo collages are copied below to once again acknowledge and thank everyone involved.

Member News

North West Club Champs 2025 - Sunday 7 September

Our Club Champs will be held as part of Forest Cup 4 to be held on Sunday 7 September. An event for all members. Details to come. 

North West End of Year Event & Prize-giving - Sunday 30 November

North West Member Only Training Day

A very successful training day was held on Sunday 22 June, attended by around 40 Club Members supported by about 13 coaches from the Club. Feedback from those who were coached has been very positive - we hope to hold more events of this kind at other times. Thanks to all the coaches who gave their time so willingly. 

North West Club shirts

We have stock of short sleeved Bryzos brand club shirts.    

The shirts have short sleeves, mesh side panels and a short neck zip in the club's distinctive colours. Cost $65 per shirt - details under Shop on our website.

Get in now and purchase yours while stocks last.

To order, contact Lisa Mead mead10b@gmail.com

Member Awards

NZ Secondary Schools Southern Cross Team 

Congratulations to North West Juniors, Tahi Harris, Aidan Barrett-Hamilton & Daniel Porteous who have been named in the Southern Cross team to contest the Southern Cross Trophy in Australia in September. And to Quinn Harris who has been named as a Reserve. Team Annoucement is here 

North West Member Results from AKSS Rogaine Champs 2025

The AKSS Rogaine Champs were held on Sunday 8 June. North West Juniors were in great form with many placing in the top 5 as below. Congratulations to you all.

Individual Grades

Year 7/8 Boys

• 1^st Alexander Finn
• 3^rd Huxley Dewe

Year 7/8 Girls

• 2^nd Arietty Smith-Godoy

Junior Boys

• 1^st Aidan Barrett-Hamilton
• 3^rd Jamie Appleton

Junior Girls

• 3^rd Zara Hong-Michael

Intermediate Boys

• 1^st Tahi Harris
• 2^nd Isaac Stewart

Intermediate Girls

• 2^nd Olivia Appleton
• 5^th Hazel Mulligan

Senior Boys

• 5^th Zachary Boss

Teams Grades (North West Juniors listed only, not full teams)

Year 7 & 8 Boys

• 1^st Benji Boyle (Northcross Intermediate)
• 2^nd Lachlan Denton (St Peters(

Year 7 & 8 Girls

• 1^st Millie Harrison & Neiva Moore (Murrays Bay Intermediate 3)
• 2^nd Lacey Gornall & Roxy Hefer (Orewa College 2)
• 4^th Dorothy Leung (Northcross Intermediate)

Junior Boys

• 1^st Quinn Harris (MAGs 3)
• 3^rd Logan Murphy & Jimmie Wang (Pinehurst 1)

Junior Girls

• 2^nd Fran Ishida (Green Bay)

Intermediate Boys

• 2^nd Callum Hill (Westlake Boys team)

Intermediate Girls

• 5^th Celina Lee & Jessica Picard (Pinehurst)

Editor's Note; Apologies for any members omitted from this list; we do our best to monitor events and note NWOC member results. Please feel free to tell us about your/your families results by emailing us @ northwestorienteering@gmail.com 

World Cup 2025 - Renee Beveridge's experience

World Cup Round 1 for 2025 was held in the majestic and beautiful surroundings of Idre Fjäll, north-east of the Idre Fjäll mountain resort in Sweden. The terrain is between 700-900m above sea level and was described as being mainly pre-alpine forest with old-grown trees and very few areas with lower runnability and visibility. Some areas are very detailed with a lot of features. 

North West's Renee Beveridge represented New Zealand in this event and wrote about her interpretation of the terrain and her experience here.

For more news and reviews about the World Cup go here and here

New Members

A warm welcome to our new members - Ana, Christopher, Emily & Ryan Barnett; Joel McLeod; Jones Morrison and Victoria, Jesse, Daisy, Felix & Scout Mulligan.