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The Ballarat Summer Orienteering Series is back!!!![]()
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It has been expanded too, from 12 events to a whopping 18!!! Hoho, talk about inflation!!! 😲 Oh, hang about - it's still FREE!!!!! 🎉👍♥️🙏😎🤯💯🥳 That's right, the cost to orienteer at these events is $0.00!![]()
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So, invite a million people along with you because you can say, "It's my shout!" and you will be right!!!![]()
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As far as I'm concerned there is no better way to spend summer evenings tha Orienteering around Ballarat. You will love it and discover suburbs you never knew about before!! Get the most out of extra daylight by getting out and Orienteering.![]()
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Don't know what it is, come along anyway. You will learn more each week!!! Plus Orienteers love to share how great orienteering is and how to do it.![]()
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There are 5 events scheduled for the rest of 2024. The first event is on Tuesday the 19th at Delacombe. If you arrive around 5:30pm you will be ready to go when the event starts at 5:45pm. All equipment, including map, compass and SI timing stick all provided. Once again, provides for FREE!!! ![]()
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19th November - Delacombe![]()
26th November - St Georges Lake, Creswick![]()
3rd December - Eureka Gardens / East Ballarat![]()
10th December - Soldiers Hill / Black Hill![]()
17th December - Lake Wendouree / North Gardens![]()
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All events listed on Eventor where you will find the event arena and also more information for each event, like if there is a BBQ there? Or can you go swimming too. Most events are also MTB friendly but the you will still have to get of the bike to punch the controls! But few free to do a course either way!!! Why not. As long as there is daylight savings, just squeeze asich fun out as possible!!!![]()
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Eureka means "I found it", or something like that, in Greek. In Ballarat Eureka means a whole lot more. Anyone who wears this logo or has seen it will find the presentation very interesting. Highly reccomended, both this talk and also a visit to the Eureka Centre Museum to see the actual real, original, life sized flag used 170 years ago!![]()
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Just awesome to have the Vic MTBO Series #5 back to, well, so close, to Ballarat at Lal Lal! Enjoy the footage and the musical Eureka Orienteers thank Yarra Valley for putting on such a great event!
Some action at the finish area of Saturday's Borhoney Ghurk event. It was a spectacular day with cloudless skies in a myriad of different forest areas. Many different control site areas as the forest changed. Thank you enormously to Bill, Susan and Celsey, as seen in the shade house photo, for putting in a huge amount of work for this event. ![]()
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Thank you also so much to everyone who came along. Many of you have neen regular Ballarat Classics Series event attendees. To me I am not at all concerned if numbers are not huge compared to other similar events and yet they were still substantial to me. This was the first year this series of events have been presented in this way by Eureka Orienteers, Perhaps people just did not understand what the events entailed. Ballarat is closer than some other popular area but still, the concept was very very simple really, Classic Longer Distance style Orienteering in classic Forest areas. It was brilliant to see the elites battle it out over 10-11km courses and have only literally seconds separate them at some events. It was also nice to see people deliberately choose longer courses than they usually do and spend 2-3 hours competing the course and come back and say how great it was.There seems to be an appetite for longer distance classic orienteering. Well at least for some. However, more importantly, what I am looking for, over just numbers, is people who enjoyed their courses. I want to actually see smiles and hear how people enjoyed these events. That's positive feedback and will help make events better and better and being more and more people. I repeat, sometimes it is easy to indicate what is wrong. But don't forget if you are trying to attract new people to Orienteering, please try to speak about what is right about Orienteering! From my own experiences people out there have NO idea what Orienteering is, let alone what is right about it. Your positive feedback and happiness when we do something good is what I can use as proof to tell others of how great this sport is!! Personally, I find it incredible how your positive comments that you make when you finish help me to go again and do another event for you.![]()
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So thank you so much to all those who, after they caught their breath and had a drink, came and thanked the organising team and told us how much they enjoy being in actual, real classic bush orienteering areas. As long as you tell me this then I will continue to increase participation numbers by simply putting on more and more events. Simple, want to increase participation then put on more opportunities to orienteer!![]()
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Well, Eureka Orienteers have completed the 2024 Ballarat Classics Series! We hastily proposed an vast increase of events for 2024 and we're definitely behind the ball for the scheduling side of things. Personnel issues early on and permit disasters later on saw some wild freedom in scheduling decision made at various times. This was meet with concern and no doubt has been discussed as some failing in the club by external viewers. Well, in the end it is no relevance. The series was put on for the population of Ballarat mainly yet we were so happy to share with those further afield. Eureka are proud that this series was completed and are exceptionally to see so many new faces this year. This has been rekuvematimg and especially so with Eurekas 50th year coming up next year!![]()
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Stay tuned, we have got scheduled dates already so we are ahead of the same stage last year. We have a plan. We have even more events in the series for next year!!! Wow!!! Eureka Orienteers are so looking forward to putting on the Ballarat Classics Series in 2025 for the 50th year of Eureka.Orienteers. Of course we are also beyond happy that we still have some of this very original Eureka still Orienteering to this day!!!![]()
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Thanks everybody!!! We have loved hearing how much you enjoyed Eureka Orienteers orienteering events so far in 2024!!!
Street-O Eureka Orienteers style on the 26th of February, 1984. Anyone remember being there? Anyone recognise the handwriting? 🤔 I have my suspicions as to who would put so much work into this cluesheet/control card. Anyone know more, please add in the comments! 🙂👍
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