Welcome to Big Foot Orienteers, formerly the planet's pinkest orienteering club.

If you are interested in stepping up to the challenge or bush orienteering from Summer Series, or if you want to plan a Summer Series event yourself, please get in touch with us. Our experienced members are more than willing to pass on some of their knowledge.

Big Foot members are active in all forms of bush orienteering, from the local metro league (where we have two teams) through the Sydney and state leagues right up to national and world championships. We also have members who are active in other forms of orienteering like mountain bike orienteering (MTBO), rogaining and adventure races.

Metro League - Big Foot Win Division 1 !

Sunday, 24 May 2009

The going was soft

A damp track didn't prevent a Big Foot win in the Metro League's top grade. A team of Jock Davis, Paul Marsh, Richard Lauder, Steve Craig and Tracy Marsh put the sword to Garingal's fastest five.

Richard Lauder deserves special mention for his Metro League efforts this year - having been picked in the division 2 team for every race, he has had to step up to division 1 each week. Solid performances by Steve Craig through most of the season, even on the areas less mapped make him our highest points scorer.

With Richard continually snatched away from division 2, the div 2 team has struggled, but has provided a platform for a couple of new Big Feet to launch their Metro league careers. Maybe demotion to division 3 is the spark we need.

On a new area at Doonside, Simon George, controlled by Carol Osborne got all the controls in the right spot (something that doesn't always happen in Metro League finals as we know to our cost).

Top work all round - that's the seventh event of the year that we have staged and the last event Big Foot are organising until Big Foot Sprints at the same location in November. We recommend doing the World Masters as preparation for the big one if you are eligible.

Thanks Simon (planner), Carol (controller), Debbie, Andrew and Terry (map) for this event and to the other clubs who put on events.

 See article below for prelim results.
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