SSS15 - Ashtonfield

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Event: SSS15
Location: Ashtonfield
Weather: Warm, slighly overcast. 
Setter: Lewis Berkholz
Organisation: Peter Berkholz.
Setup: Mick Kavur
Start: Cathy Jones, Peter Newton
Finish: Lewis Berkholz, Peter Berkholz, Josh Blatchford
General Support (& goofing off): Nathan Berkholz
Entries: 88

This was a first go at organising a street event for the Berkholz clan and it was a job well done. I hope to have an paragraph or two from them telling us all about this inaugural experience, with all the joys and pitfalls that are associated with this important role.

On the results front it was a veritable domination by Steven Todkill, easily taking out the mens. Similairly Carolyn Matthews dominated the womens category.

This area used to be one of our great bush maps, but sadly we have had to develop it as housing due to all the immigrants to our area such as the Blatchfords. Imagine how our map stocks will reduce as the population grows to that 36 million the "economists" reckon this country needs. What a joke! Oops personal opinion/rant sliding in here so I'd better stop. Anyway below is some interesting stuff from Russell Rigby regarding the old map.

todays controls on 1989 bush map (4 Mile Ck)
the large cluster of pits and depressions along the ridge line between 3D and 2E was caused by the collapse of very shallow 19th century coal mine workings - some less than 10m below the surface - just the spot to build a new McMansion.

The assembly area for Day 1 of the 1989 Xmas 5 Day was near 1P in the NW corner of the map.

From the scorer's desk ...
Street series continues to grow, as reflected by the number of competitors committed to travel all over our region to attend events. Those who manage to attend many consecutive events deserve special mention, and the past couple of weeks has seen several competitors reach some impressive milestones for consecutive events attended:
20 Events: Carolyn Matthews
40 Events: Alex Massey, Andrew Haigh, Nicole Haigh
80 Events: Tony Hayes
Outstanding contributions to the series!

Note that Alex Orr and Greg Bacon are also poised to reach the milestone 20 events if they attend event 16 next week.

results
routegadget (4 Mile Creek version)
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Item Summary
2010/11 Street Series - Call for Planners - URGENT Tuesday, 24 August 2010 Planning of the street series has commenced. Can you assist?
Latest Newsletter Available Wednesday, 11 August 2010 New editor Daniel Orr has completed the next installment of our newsletter.
Todkill and Enderby take out 2010 Hunter Valley Champs Thursday, 29 July 2010 Steven Todkill and Jenny Enderby have taken out the Hunter Valley Championship titles contested at Wallaroo on Sunday 1st August.
SL9 & SL10 results Monday, 26 July 2010 Results, splits, routegadget and a few photos are now available.
NOY6 Results Tuesday, 6 July 2010 Another fine club event in a great area.
Assistance Request Friday, 2 July 2010 A variety of helpers will be required at the upcoming state league events for a range of tasks. Can you help?
Hunter Regional Schools Results Wednesday, 30 June 2010 Hunter Regional Schools Results results now available.
Sydney Series1 & NOY5 Results Monday, 28 June 2010 Newcastle Club members hope you enjoyed this event. A report, results, splits, RouteGadget, photos and even the opportunity for (constructive) feedback is now available.
36 Years of Dedication to “Orienteering in Newcastle” Friday, 11 June 2010 Edition 211 of “Orienteering in Newcastle”, the Newcastle Orienteering club’s newsletter, is at this stage rather unique. It is the first newsletter in the clubs history that has been produced by someone other than Allan Wright.
Dark Hill minor results Tuesday, 8 June 2010 David and Ann Kitchener opened up their property to club members for an exciting dash around their "yard"
NOY4 - Gymea Gullies Tuesday, 25 May 2010 The fourth round of the Newcastle Orienteer of the Year (NOY) series was contested on the Gymea Gullies map north of Cooranbong on Sunday. This area is predominantly spur gully with enough vegetation to lessen visibility but not hinder progress through it too much.
Rob Vincent wins major award Thursday, 6 May 2010 Newcastle orienteering legend, Rob Vincent was recently the recipient of the Silva Award for Services to Orienteering at the OA annual presentation of awards
NOY3 - Masses come to the Mountain Monday, 3 May 2010 Newcastle club held a come and try it day at Mount Sugarloaf
Newcomer Promotion Friday, 30 April 2010 Our club is having a newcomer promotion on National Orienteering Day, Sunday 2nd May at Mount Sugarloaf
Josh Bound for Denmark Monday, 26 April 2010 Newcastle junior Joshua Blatchford has been selected to represent Australia at the 2010 Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC), to be held in Aalborg, Denmark, from July 4 to 10.