President’s Introduction

Kia ora all. It has been another busy time for the club with the Bivouac Outdoor Rogaine Series producing another record breaking event. Thanks to our event leaders Liam Stolberger, Thomas Stolberger, Quinn Harris, Nick Harris, Rob Garden, Marquita Gelderman and overall series director Jenny Cade for your hard work. These events are major earners for the club and put us in a good financial position.

Newsletter Contents

• Oceania Champs with a North West Group
• Auckland Calendar of Events
  • Forest Cup 2026
• Key events coming up around New Zealand in 2026
  • Great Forest Rogaine
• Schools Orienteering
  
  • New Zealand Secondary Schools Champs
  • AIMS Games
• Club Nights
• Member News
  • North West's Bivouac Outdoor Rogaine Series 2026 - review
  •  Member Results
    • Southern Cross Team Members
    • Auckland Secondary Schools Champs Long
    • Auckland Secondary Schools Rogaine Champs 
    • Auckland Triple Crown
  • NWOC Club Shirts
  • Member Story - Emily Barnett
  • New Members

Oceania Opportunity as part of a North West Group

Auckland Events

All upcoming events in the wider Auckland area for 2026 will be added to our NWOC website here New Zealand wide events are on Orienteering New Zealand’s website here

Forest Cup 2026

The forest cup is a 4-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 Sunday 13 September. 

Event Dates are:

• Sunday 23 August
• Sunday 30 August
• Sunday 6 September*
• Sunday 13 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 6 September doubles as North West's Club Champs for 2026. Details to come. 

Key events coming up around NZ

Great Forest Rogaine 

New Zealand's most popular and longest standing Rogaine is back for 2026 with a new adventure class and new terrain and tracks to explore!
Same opportunities for fun, challenge, and ADVENTURE for all ages and abilities! Based in Whakarewarewa Forest, this is a chance for teams of 2 or more to explore some of the world's best mountain bike trails and running/hiking terrain, and visit parts of the forest you have not seen before. Details here  Enter here

Schools Orienteering

New Zealand Secondary Schools Orienteering Champs 

Entries close: midnight, 22 June 2026 - Check with your School Sports Coordinators that you are entered. 

PAPO Club is looking forward to hosting the School Champs in the varied terrain around Canterbury. Event details are here

There are several public races running in parallel with the School Champs. See details here Enter the public events here 

Zespri AIMS Games - Saturday 5 to Friday 11 September 2026

Thousands of athletes.

Hundreds of teams.

One unforgettable experience.

Orienteering events are on Monday 7 & Tuesday 8 September. Registrations for 2026 registrations are officially open, enter via your school sport coordinator. 

For more info about the orienteering events see here

Club Nights

Gene Beveridge leads a Club Night every second Wednesday from 6:30pm to 8:30pm in Epsom. Next Club Night is Wednesday 24 June. These are open to all members and non members. We expect these to be well attended by AOC, CMOC and NWOC members. Each night will include coaching discussions using courses and maps from recent and upcoming events. More info, including dates for 2026 here

Member News

Bivouac Outdoor Rogaine Series 2026 - Review

Our Bivouac Outdoor rogaine series wrapped up on Sunday 14 June with a mega event at Muriwai.  With more than 800 participants this was our biggest rogaine ever! For stories on each event see here:

• Rogaine 1
• Rogaine 2
• Rogaine 3 

Results and photos from each event are here 

Thanks to everyone who came to the rogaines and especially to all those from North West who helped out and contributed to the success of the series.

And a BIG thank you to our long-time series partner, Bivouac Outdoor whose support over a decade has played a significant role in the growth of the series.  Through donated and discounted prizes, Bivouac Outdoor has helped foster participation and contributed to the ongoing success of the series. #bivproudsponsor#bivouacoutdoor

More thanks to 

• North West member Louisa from Redhead Digital for her time creating the fabulous new imagery we used to promote this year's Rogaine Series. We love it and we appreciate your wonderful work. 
• Steve Knowles from Sportzhub who was at every rogaine taking fabulous photos as a record of the event. Steve gives his time freely to support these events.

Member Results

North West Club shirts

New stock of Bryzos brand club shirts has been ordered.  The shirts have short sleeves, mesh side panels and a short neck zip in North West's distinctive colours. Cost $45 per shirt - go to Shop on our website.

To order, contact Lisa Mead mead10b@gmail.com. 

Member Story 

Congratulations to North West Junior, Emily Barnett who dressed up in her orienteering gear for Titirangi Primary School's sports appreciation dress up day recently. The brief was to come dressed in your favourite sport. Emily secured one of the winning costumes for her class. And on Sunday, Emily wore her gear for Rogaine 3, competing with dad Chris, as part of Team Hotdog.

Emily loves orienteering; she got into it last year when her brother started orienteering through St Peters College. Last year she designed a course for her class, downloading the map and deciding where the controls should be placed.  Emily tested the course herself and on her brother and on the day she ran the event with her class, timed them and did a winners ceremony. Go Emily!

New Members

A warm welcome to new members James, Fox & Huxley Winton, Hayley Gan, Renata Kowalczyk,  Kris Deng, Terry Finney, Zoe Mules, Eden Chueh, Lorraine Stone, Noah Briggs and Imogen Brown.