Australian Rogaining Championships

Mareeba, QLD, AU
Jun 22–23, 2013

Next entry deadline: May 31, 2013

Type: Orienteering - National

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added by: tRicky

Dinden National Park straddles the Lamb Range which is that part of the Great Dividing Range behind Cairns. Rainforest cloaks the wetter eastern slopes of the range where Lake Morris, the main water reservoir for Cairns, is situated. Eucalypt woodland occupies the drier rain-shadowed areas on the western slopes. Between these two contrasting vegetation types runs a strip of a rare forest type known as wet sclerophyll.

The first European to sight the area back in 1876 was John Atherton who established a home for his family and 1500 head of cattle near what is now known as the town of Mareeba. Gold was discovered in Davies Creek in the early 1900s and logging in the area also began around this time. Historic pack routes, used to transport supplies between the coast and the Atherton Tableland, pass through Dinden National Park.

Davies Creek National Park includes part of the Davies Creek valley, a rugged landscape of rocky granite outcrops, ridges, boulders and slabs. The creek drops about 75 m down the granite escarpment at Davies Creek Falls. These falls and the impressive Clohesy River fig tree are major features of these national parks.

Race HQ (Hash House) is 418m ASL with the highest point on the event course being 810m (obvious 100 pointer here).

Event terrain will be primarily spur/ gully with open woodland to tall open forest and the only rainforest being riparian along main creeks. ‘Wait a while’ has not been seen by field workers on the event course. Black spear grass may be present on small areas of the 188 sq km event course.

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