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https://qldrogaine.asn.au/event-calendar/2026-arc/

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Newsletter October 2025

Check out this Tasmanian event for your summer rogaining fix!

Rogaining Tasmania will be running the Stagger On 24-hour Tasmanian Championships on December 6th and 7th, 2025. There will also be an associated non-championship 6-hour event.

This event will be held on farming properties in the Southern Midlands region, extending from just east of Bothwell almost to Oatlands. The terrain is varied, from open rolling paddocks and native grassy meadows through open forested hills and wet gullies. Unusually for Tasmania, the outcropping rocks are sandstone, which makes for some interesting features. The hash house is a 75-minute drive from Hobart Airport. 

The rogaine will challenge competitive teams with plenty of distance, interesting navigation, and ample hilly bits. It will also offer novice entrants an opportunity to practice their navigation skills in pretty farmland and natural environments, and everyone in between will find a great mix of terrain, vegetation, and chances to spot plenty of Tasmanian wildlife.

For older rogainers, we have introduced an Extreme Veteran category where all team members must be 75 years of age or over.

24-hour events in Tasmania are uncommon so this is an opportunity not to be missed. 

Event details, photo gallery, and the entry form can be found on the RT website.

If you have any queries, please contact Bernard - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Intervarsity Championships Results

The 2025 Intervarsity Rogaining Championships were held in conjunction with the NSW state championships and were hotly contested, with eight university teams from around Australia competing for the trophy. As in previous years, the travel costs for teams were covered by funds from the NAMSF in memory of champion rogainer Nigel Aylott.

Congratulations to the winning team, Oscar Woolford and Kelvin Meng from ANU.
https://rogaine.asn.au/results/2025-intervarsity

2026 Australasian Rogaining Championships - The Ironpot Forge

The 2026 Australasian Rogaining Championships will be hosted in scenic grassland / eucalypt forest NW of Brisbane on 29-30 August 2026: https://qldrogaine.asn.au/event-calendar/2026-arc/

Make sure you put this one in your calendar! Entries will open in early 2026.

WRC 2027 -  Australia 

Planning continues for the World Rogaining Championships which will be held in the Flinders Ranges in September 2027. 

If you haven't yet seen the promotional video on the website - check it out! 
wrc2027.rogaining.au

The area where the event will be held, the Ikara-Flinders Ranges & Outback, has been named one of the world’s top travel destinations for 2026! Check out the media release: Ikara-Flinders Ranges & Outback named in world’s top places 

We would love to recruit some more keen volunteers to the organising team - if you have any interest in helping out, regardless of where you live in Australia, please contact us here https://qldrogaine.asn.au/wrc2027/#contact It's going to be a big event, and with many volunteer roles you can still take part in the event.

ARA AGM 2025

The annual general meeting of the Australian Rogaining Association was held on Monday 25th August 2025. For more information you can contact your state/territory President or ARA Representative.

ARA Grants

Applications from state/territory associations are due in November each year, according to the Grants Policy.

Rogaine Mapping Resources

For those interested in preparing rogaine maps, there are some new resources available on the QRA website: https://qldrogaine.asn.au/mapping-resources/

You can also join the Google Group discussion: https://groups.google.com/g/rogaine-mapping

IRF News

Observers are invited to join the next online meeting of the IRF, to be held in early December. If you have any interest in joining please contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The IRF is also still looking for individuals to take on executive roles, so let me know if you are interested or you know someone who would be keen.

National Calendar: https://rogaine.asn.au/events

Next European Championships:  Czech Republic 2026

Next World Championships:  16-17 September 2027 wrc2027.rogaining.au 

Cheers, Paul

Paul Guard
ARA President

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WRC 2025 Results

 

A big cohort of over 41 Australians competed in the 19th World Rogaining Championships which were held in the Sierra de la Demanda mountains in northern Spain on 5-6 July. Here is most of the group, proudly wearing our WRC 2027 promotional shirts:

 

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The Aussie teams put in a great performance, and overall there were Australians in ten of the teams that reached the podium. Congratulations to all of the participants and all of the category place-getters!

 

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The full results are available on the event website:

https://wrc2025.org/live-center/

and also on the Rogaine-Results website, where you can look at team routes and leg statistics:

https://rogaine-results.com/event/results/2025/world-rogaine-champs/24hr

 

Check out the photos in this album:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/r7PrAyDpDm667huF9

 

We also took the opportunity to promote the next World Rogaining Championships, to be held in the Flinders Ranges in September 2027: wrc2027.rogaining.au

Check out the amazing promo video on the website!

 

Here is an event report from ACT's Stephen Goggs:

 

A World Away - Stephen Goggs

In my travels in Spain over the years I have found it to be a land where what you see is what you get. If you order a tempting cheese platter you might receive slices of cheese on a plate; a refreshing orange dessert is an orange with a knife. So it was with the rogaine in the aptly named Sierra de la Demanda!

 

An impressively large band of Aussies made the journey to northern Spain via various circuitous routes, a pattern continued at the event itself. While shivering under your doonas in Canberra you may have read that it has been hot hot hot in Europe already this summer, with temps in Madrid in the mid-30s for weeks. Luckily for us an almighty summer storm broke over the event village of Quintanar de la Sierra the night before the start, which had the effect of bringing the average temperature down somewhat (only two hots not three) and softening the ground under foot. It also turned some of the forest trails into forest rivulets, but in the main we would discover that the understorey was easy going anyway, so no worries on that front. 

 

The going was much more ‘demanda’ when it came to elevation. The average profile of the course ranged from 1000 to 2000m high, and boy didn’t we know it - Julie and David reported over 5000m of climb in their 24 hours. The trade-off for all that height gain was that the ridge lines were often bare and easy running with some splendid views in multiple directions - or they were until night fell of course. 

‍On the course. Image credit: Event organisers
 

The forecast had been for more rain on the Saturday of the event, but despite distant rumbling the rains held off. It was still at least one level hot on the Saturday arvo, but some of us even had to break out a warm layer over night. Jon Glanville and I had a cunning plan for a mostly downhill-in-the-trees route on Sunday morning, which worked a treat. It’s just a pity certain 60+ yo legs and lungs had not been up to all the planned uphill challenges the day before. 

 

Other Aussies, old and young, fared much better though, and while my own pace was more pedestrian than presidential, we were thrilled to celebrate ACTRA President Ollie James’s win with partner E Wen Wong in Mixed Youth and former pres Julie Quinn’s 2nd with David Baldwin in XV and 12th overall, not to mention (oh ok I will mention..) the ageless Geoff Lawford and Rod Gray taking out MU (again!) and Aussies 2 and 3 in WSV, 3 and 5 in MSV and World WY Champions Joanna and Abi George, who also gave a great shoutout for WRC2027 in the Flinders Ranges. 

 

I could go on describing the highs (lots) and lows (actually there were none of those), but will instead finish with thanks to all those here and following along at home for your support and companionship, not forgetting of course ACTRA’s very own international WRC course advisers Jean Douglass and Ron Simpson. What a great team we make!

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Australasian Rogaining Championships

 

The 2025 Australasian Championships were held in the Snowy Mountains on 15-16 March, hosted by ACTRA, and were a great success all around. You can check out the results here: https://rogaine.asn.au/results/arc-results and here: https://arc2025.rogaining.au/results

 

The 2026 Australasian Championships will be hosted by QRA, in scenic open grassland / eucalypt forest, on 29-30 August 2026. Please put these dates in your diaries! Here is the event page: https://qldrogaine.asn.au/event-calendar/2026-arc/

 

2025 Intervarsity Rogaining Championships

 

The 2025 Intervarsity Championships will be held in conjunction with the NSW Championships on the 12-13 September 2025. Here is the event information: https://nswrogaining.org/event/2025-nsw-championships/

Travel Bursaries are available for one team from each state/territory to travel to the Championships. Please contact your state/territory association if you would like to apply for the bursary, or if you know of a university team who you think would like to go. Here is some more information: https://rogaine.asn.au/news/2025-australian-intervarsity-championships

 

Australia hosting WRC 2027 - We Need YOU!

 

Planning continues for the World Rogaining Championships which will be held in the Flinders Ranges in September 2027. We would love to recruit some more keen volunteers - if you have any interest in helping out, regardless of where you live in Australia, please contact us here https://qldrogaine.asn.au/wrc2027/#contact

It's going to be a big event, and with many volunteer roles you can still take part in the event.

 

ARA AGM 2025

 

The annual general meeting of the Australian Rogaining Association will be held on Monday 25th August 2025. If you have any issues you would like to add to the meeting agenda, please discuss with your state/territory President or ARA Representative.

 

ARA Grants

 

Applications from state/territory associations are due in November each year, according to the Grants Policy.

 

Rogaine Mapping Resources

 

For those interested in preparing rogaine maps, there are some new resources available on the QRA website: https://qldrogaine.asn.au/mapping-resources/

You can also join the Google Group discussion: https://groups.google.com/g/rogaine-mapping

 

IRF News

 

Matt Bixley has stepped down from the role of International Rogaining Federation President, and there are now multiple vacancies on the IRF Executive. If you have an interest in getting involved in the coordination of the World Rogaining Championships and other international rogaining, especially if you have experience in rogaining administration, we would love to hear from you. Contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you are interested or would like to find out more.

 

National Calendar: https://rogaine.asn.au/events

Next European Championships:  Czech Republic 2026

Next World Championships:  16-17 September 2027 wrc2027.rogaining.au 

 

Cheers, Paul

Paul Guard

ARA President

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