Rogaining Tasmania

  • 2025 Australian Intervarsity Champs Report
      UTAS Intervarsity Team Sam Woolford and Xavier Scott By the Tasmanian Team, Xavier Scott and Sam Woolford. This year the legendary Samborghini and I competed in the NSW Rogaining Championships,...
  • Roche's Rumble Bike Winners' Report
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    22 September 2025
    Roche's Rumble Bike Winners' Report
    Bike category winners - Euan Best and Robert Ravani By Robert Ravani In the lead up to the event I was excited at the chance to take part in an event with the Bests however I was somewhat underdone and...
  • Roche's Rumble Setters' Report
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    21 September 2025
    Roche's Rumble Setters' Report
    The Roche's Rumble setters, vetters and helpers. Oliver Bain, Jaymee Knoll, Gav Johnstone, Rowan Tilley, Bridget White and Maddy Hendy. By Rowan Tilley and Jaymee Knoll After a crash course from...
  • Roche's Rumble On-Foot Winners' Report
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    20 September 2025
    Roche's Rumble On-Foot Winners' Report
    Roche's Rumble On-Foot Winners, Marc Iseli and Andrew Gaskell By Andrew Gaskell, on behalf of Team Marc & Andy. “I’ve got something that might interest you”. So began the intriguing message I...
  • Coffeee Bean Winners' Report
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    16 June 2025
    Coffeee Bean Winners' Report
    Caffeinated winners - David Atkinson and David Brooke  Written by Dave, with contributions from Dave. Huge credit to the organisers and volunteers; yet again, an exceptionally run event. Everything...
  • ARC 2025 Report
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    25 March 2025
    ARC 2025 Report
    Jon Sutcliffe and Thor Egerton. Open Mixed winners. This event came around quickly. It was only 6 months ago that we last had an Australasian Rogaining Champs, then held in WA. On that occasion, we had...
  • Deddington Dilemma 12-hour winners' report
    By Sam Woolford (middle) with Jett McComb (right) and Euan Best (left) The Deddington Dilemma rogaine was held in a mix of paddocks, plantations and wooded farmland just to the west of the Ben...
  • Deddington Dilemma 12-hour W winners' report
    By Becca Lunnon (right) with Emily Panietz (left) As a relative novice to the art of rogaining, I naively felt superbly prepared for a crack at the Deddington Dilemma. The amazing and super- speedy...
  • The GorgeUs Metrogaine Setters' Report
    GorgeUs setters David Cole and Andrea Schiwy About a year ago, David Cole casually mentioned to Rogaining Tasmania president Gary Carroll that he was thinking about organising a metrogaine in...
  • The GorgeUs Metrogaine W Winners Report
    Sussan and Sophie Best  What a fantastic day for an event in Launceston. Clear skies and mild temperatures meant we were in for a perfect day to criss-cross the city in search of answers to some of...
  • Arthurs Lake Aquagaine Setters' Report
    I have no idea when the idea of an Arthurs Lake Aquagaine took hold. One evening Karen and I drove past Arthurs Lake and camped for the night to avoid hitting wildlife, next I am looking at the Lake...
  • Arthurs Lake Winners' Report
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    03 March 2024
    Arthurs Lake Winners' Report
    If you’d prefer not to read about how a ‘social event with an emphasis on fun’ was treated by Ryder Jamson and I as though winning was a matter of life and death - then I’d suggest you skip reading...
  • Report on the 2023 Australasian Rogaining Championships, 16-17 Dec, Tekapo, New Zealand
    By Liz Canning and Hugh Fitzgerald As the sole Tasmanian team competing in this year’s Australasian rogaining champs, it was up to us to let the state down! But I jump ahead, first the backstory. Hugh had...
  • Midlands Muster report from Roving 15-hour winners, Ryan King and Andrew Wright
    The long-awaited Midlands Muster certainly did not disappoint. Not only was the weather ideal, not too hot, not too cold, but the area made for an amazing course. Andrew and I were both novices when...
  • Report on the 2023 World Rogaining Championships, by WSV winners Christine Brown and Thorlene Egerton
    The 2023 WRC was held in the Lake Tahoe area of California. The Hash House was in the ski resort area known as Northstar. Usually, in the summer the area is flooded with mountain bikers and in...
  • SoHo Shuffle: Setters/Vetters report
    After a fantastic weekend competing in the 2022 Australasian Rogaining Championships in the Pyrenees, Victoria (not the Pyrenees in Europe!) Jaymee Knoll and I enthusiastically signed up to help...
  • SoHo Shuffle Results
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    20 March 2023
    SoHo Shuffle Results
    The SoHo Shuffle results are now available HERE, and some photos from the event and presentations are HERE. It was a memorable event held in ideal, calm and mild autumn conditions. The course was...
  • Australasian Rogaining Championships Report from the Winners of the Mixed Super Vets
    By Thorlene Egerton and Jonathan Sutcliffe (newly Tasmanians) Thorlene Egerton and Jonathan Sutcliffe at the prize ceremony. Photo credit: Victorian Rogaining Association Oh boy, what an area. We...
  • Australasian Rogaining Championships Report from a Non-champion
    By Lucy Hawthorne This month I travelled to Victoria to the Pyrenees Ponder Australasian Rogaining Championships where I competed with my dad, Neil Hawthorne. Unlike Neil, who has competed in the...
  • Marieville Mayhem Metrogaine results and reports
    Congratulations to Jonathan McComb and Ian Parker for their overall victory in the 6-hr category, and to Anthony Stoner and Niko Stoner in the 3-hr. Full results and winning routes can be found at...
  • Marieville Mayhem Metrogaine Results
    Results are available for the Marieville Mayhem HERE. Congratulations to Jonathan McComb and Ian Parker for their overall victory in the 6-hr category, and to Anthony Stoner and Niko Stoner in the...
  • Lindisfun On-foot Winners Report
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    21 January 2022
    I had the pleasure of dragging a first-time rogainer, Hamish Lockett, around the Lindisfun metrogaine by foot. We had figured that given the large map area and possibility of a lot of street...
  • Lindisfun Bike Event Winners Report
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    21 January 2022
    For those of you wanting to read about daring exploits and dramatic tales of human endurance I would suggest the report from the foot entrants would be far more enthralling. This is a tale of...
  • Lindisfun Course Setters Report
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    21 January 2022
    Lindisfun Course Setters Report
    Ben, Charlotte and I set and vetted the Lindisfun metrogaine. We tried to set a fun course that had something for everyone: a challenge for the people wanting to push themselves with lots of...
  • Lindisfun Metrogaine Results
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    28 November 2021
    Lindisfun Metrogaine Results
    The Lindisfun 4-hour metrogaine has been run and won, although all the entrants were winners on the fun course in the ideal weather. Congratulations to overall bike category winners Jeff Dunn and...
  • Lenah Valley Hop Results
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    23 August 2021
    Lenah Valley Hop Results
    Results for both events along with the 3 and 6 Hour winning routes are available HERE. Congratulations to Oskar Bucirde and Joseph Dickinson for collecting 50 checkpoints over 40kms to be first...
  • weetapoona – an Entrant’s Perspective
    By Susan Gardner. After competing in a metrogaine around 2 years ago with my husband and bushwalking friend John, he asked if we would like to do a rogaine. We were a little apprehensive at first...
  • weetapoona wrap-up
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    07 April 2021
    weetapoona wrap-up
    By Peter and Robyn Tuft. We have cycled regularly on Bruny because we live nearby, and every time we rode through some part of North Bruny we couldn’t help thinking how perfect it seemed for...
  • weetapoona wander results
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    02 March 2021
    weetapoona wander results
    The “weetapoona wander” is now all done, to the great satisfaction of both participants and organisers. Judging by the feedback received everyone seemed delighted with the scenery and the course...
  • Hit or Miss On-foot Winners Report (Euan Best)
    Have you wondered how two teenagers managed to beat all the adults at the recent rogaine? Well wonder no more because Euan is here to explain how we did it. We started off and immediately decided...
  • Hit or Miss Mountain Bike Winners Report (Edwina Hughes)
    After winning the overall Clarence Capers metrogaine in 2019, Darryl Smith and I decided to team up again on our mountain bikes to see how we would fare in the 2020 Hit or Miss metrogaine, located...
  • Setters and Vetters Report – Hit or Miss Metrogaine, Clarence, 29th November 2020
    The competitors moved with such unseemly haste through the Tangara trails that we the setters and vetters had perused at our leisure and saw them in many hues. We paddled on the beaches and cycled...
  • Hit or Miss Results
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    30 November 2020
    Hit or Miss Results
    There was very close competition for top positions at the Hit or Miss. Results are now on-line at rt.asn.au/event-results. Congratulations to the organisers, all the entrants and category winners -...
  • 2020 Vision Metrogaine Setter's Report
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    04 October 2020
    2020 Vision Metrogaine Setter's Report
    A lot of work - and a lot of fun - goes in to putting on a rogaine. This was my second time setting an event using the same map extent, and despite living on the map, and having lived (and run) in...
  • 2020 Vision Metrogaine Race Report
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    04 October 2020
    2020 Vision Metrogaine Race Report
    By Jon McComb Pulling up to the skate park in Blackmans Bay, we were greeted by a beautiful morning – perfect weather for rogaining around Kingborough’s beachside suburbs. My lovely wife and...
  • Now the dust has settled on ARC 2019
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    08 December 2019
    Now the dust has settled on ARC 2019
    Well it’s all done. All the competitors returned, more-or-less on time, we did not have to search for anyone and no-one was hurt (other than blisters etc). The results have been finalised and...
  • ARC 2019 Winners’ Report
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    08 December 2019
    ARC 2019 Winners’ Report
    Julie and I had been looking forward to returning to Tassie since we'd ridden from Launceston via Bay of Fires down the east coast in January 2018, passing through some of the forest in the coastal...
  • ARC2019 – Setters Report
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    08 December 2019
    It sounds like a cliché but organising the course for 2019 Australasian Championships was a team effort. In May 2017 we were looking at the Buckland/Nugent area just east of Hobart but from April...
  • kunanyi kapers kourse-setters akkount
    By Paul Liggins The moral of the story: if you've just finished a hard run, gasping for breath and not thinking straight, and Gary Carroll approaches, walk away as fast as you possibly can. When...
  • kunanyi kapers winners’ write-up
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    26 June 2019
    kunanyi kapers winners’ write-up
    By Allan Hood Tom, Mick and myself teamed up for the recent 6 hour rogaine, held in perfect - even warm ? - autumn weather.  We had initially planned a clockwise loop going to Fern Tree first, but the...
  • Bangor 3 – Return of the Oysters Event Write-up
    The nostalgia I had felt about returning to Bangor after events in ‘98 and ‘03 had nearly entirely evaporated as I stepped on or near my tenth snake for the day with no water left, and another five...
  • Houses, History and (H)art Metrogaine Event Write Up
    … a Metrogaine where everyone learned more about Hobart Town. … by organiser Mark Hey … After a wet day prior, it thankfully dawned blue skies on Saturday 28th July 2018 for a Metrogaine around...
  • Run Rheban Run Rogaine – 28th April 2018 Event Report
    By Hugh Fitzgerald Initially planned to be a 24 hour event, a mix of thick scrub and limited land access saw the Run Rheban Run Rogaine trimmed down to 6 and 12 hour events. Confronted with such a...
  •  Kingborough Local Links Metrogaine Feb 3rd 2018 - Event Write Up
    Rogaining often seems to bring out the worst in the weather. After the deluge at the Hamilton Heritage rogaine in November, fortunately the rogaine weather gods were smiling on us at the Kingborough...
  • Hamilton Heritage Rogaine - 2nd Dec 2017 Event Report
    By Neil Hawthorne The event will be remembered as cold and wet! There was damp but comfortable weather for the 6-hour event but that was quickly followed by dark bitter rain during the extended...
  • Town and Country Rogaine, 14 May 2017
    By Robyn & Peter Tuft We don’t remember clearly how we got involved in the recent Metrogaine - we think we offered to help but somehow ended up being the lead course setters.  We also don’t clearly...
  • Australian Championship ‘Ridgy Didge’ Rogaine, 6-7 May 2017
    by Nic Pittman The 2017 Australian Championship Rogaine was held in early May at Chakola, near Bredbo, south of Canberra. I left the comforts of beautiful Hobart on the Friday afternoon and flew to...
  • Maria by Moonlight 2016 6Hr & 12Hr
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    02 December 2016
    Maria by Moonlight 2016 6Hr & 12Hr
    Ideally a rogaine course should be designed so that the best teams think they can get all the checkpoints, but they actually can’t. We did that. But we didn’t expect a team of elite European...
  • 14th World Rogaining Championships
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    15 August 2016
    14th World Rogaining Championships
    The World Rogaine Championships returned to Australia for the fourth time on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th July 2016. The venue included some of the area used for the 2007 Australian...
  • 2015 Ross Rummage 24 Hour State Champs
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    20 January 2016
    2015 Ross Rummage 24 Hour State Champs
    Article by: Julie Quinn. Julie Quinn and David Baldwin were the winners of the Ross Rummage Tasmanian State Champs We decided to come to the Ross Rummage Rogaine because David had been to the 2003...
  • 2015 Australian Intervarsity Championship
    Article by: Jess Fuller-Smith Omar, Charlie and I have recently returned from the Australasian Rogaining Championships (10-11 October 2015), where we were fortunate to receive Nigel Aylott Memorial...
  • 2015 Sandford MTBNav
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    04 March 2015
    The 2015 MTBNav-Bush was held at at Sandford on 1/3/15 Dry, fast paths and comfortable walking weather provided a base from which seventy two people enjoyed riding or walking the Sandford area in...
  • Sandford MTBNav-Bush on 18/11/12
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    23 November 2012
    A field of seventy participants enjoyed riding or walking the trails of Sandford on Sunday 18/11/12 on a warm and dry spring day. The Team of Jeff Dunn, Jemery Day and Mike Fuller led home the Men's...
  • MTBNav Metro 3 and 6hr Foot and Bike Event - Eastern Shore, Hobart
    Download results               There was a good turn up for the 2011 MTBNav Metro Foot and Bike event, and with the day looking like it was going to be bright and sunny, all looked set for a great event.    Waiting...
  • 2011 MTB-Nav Bush and Foot Event, Ellendale
    Download results              Despite the threatening weather of the day before a good crowd turned up for the 2011 MTBNav-Bush and Foot events out near Ellendale in Southern Tasmania.   Photo Courtesy - John...
  • 2011 Australian University Rogaining Championships (WA)
    On the 13th and 14th of August the Western Australian State Championships were held 90km South East of Perth. The Australian University Championship was incorporated into this event, with eligible...
  • 2010 Brown Mountain Bash
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    15 May 2011
    A very enjoyable event was held on the scenic undulating to steep bush and farming country east of Campania.   The highest point scorers in the 8 Hr event were the promising Junior team of Louis Coad,...
  • 2010 MTBNAV Bush
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    15 May 2011
    Veteran winner Darryl Smith sent in the following report:-   "Grant and I had a great time out there. The weather turned out to be perfect and the tracks were in pretty good shape. It was great to see so...
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