Top End Orienteers

Come along to Howard Springs pine forest and enjoy a cool dry season morning of mountain bike orienteering. There are three courses on offer:

Short: 4.5km, along fire trails, suitable for children on bikes or in a bike trailer

Medium: approx. 12km, mostly single track, compass would be useful

Long: 20km, mostly single track, requires major road crossing, compass would be useful

For those not keen to mountain bike there will be a foot scatter event offered. At a scatter event competitors select the number of controls they will aim to visit in the shortest time possible.

Course Planner

Bryden Smith

Organiser

Deborah Holt

Time

Start between 7:00 am and 9:00 am

Finish by 11:00 am

Courses offered

Short Bike

2.0

km

8

controls

Medium Bike

3.0

km

14

controls

Long Bike

4.0

km

16

controls

Scatter 6

3.0

km

6

controls

Scatter 13

4.0

km

13

controls

Scatter 16

5.0

km

16

controls

Scatter 20

6.0

km

20

controls

BYO

If competing in the mountain bike orienteering courses please bring: your own bicycle with bell, helmet, bicycle map holder (optional), spare tube and bicycle tools, water, compass (optional)

Coaching

Coaching is available between 8:00 am and 9:00 am

Afterwards

Please stay for the sausage sizzle!

Directions

The event will be held at the Howard Springs pine forest. Take the Gunn Point Road turnoff from the Stuart Highway and follow the road past the Howard Springs Nature Park turnoff and around a right hand bend. The start location will be at the edge of the pine forest on the right hand side after the bend in the road - look for the orienteering signs.

The location provided in this map is approximate. The nearest position provided in Google Maps has been used. Please follow orienteering signs when you arrive.