Welcome Stranger 6hr, Roving 15hr and 24hr Rogaine

Hey everyone! It’s the final rogaine of the year! Exciting but sad. This is the Nigel Aylott Memorial Victorian Rogaining Championship event, and involves 6 hour, roving 15 hour or 24 hour events held near Dunolly. Although the championship event is 24 hours, I would love to get teams in a range of categories and events. The more the merrier! The roving 15 hour event is a great opportunity to practice some night rogaining and being at the hash house overnight without the stress of being out for a full 24 hours on the course (you sign up to the 24 hour event, but stay out for less than 15 hours). 

Gear can be hired from the club, including  gear for the rogaine itself and gear for camping. All events start at 12pm on Saturday 11/10, with the 6 hour event finishing at 6pm and both the 15 and 24 hour events ending at 12pm on Sunday. Rogaining runs in VIC from March to October, so there may be opportunities in other states (or countries!) to rogaine but unfortunately this is our final Victorian event this year. Never fear, there’ll be some great rogaines next year too (the next event, a CBDgaine, is planned for March 1st next year!)

If you have team members in mind or are looking for people to team up with, come along to the meeting where we will be organising teams of 2 to 5 people. Everyone is welcome to join, whether it is your first time or your 100th!

The rogaine is organised by the Victorian Rogaining Association, more info about the event can be found here: https://rogainevic.org.au/october-rogaine-11-october-2025/. We also have a chat on the Oxo Clubrooms just for rogaining (yay!!) so you can always put any questions you have in there if you can’t find the information on the VRA page! Please also consider volunteering. It helps out the VRA who are volunteers just like us and you get free entry into a future rogaine of your choice.

Note: trip meeting is 2 Tuesdays before the event. This is to make sure teams are registered before the cut-off date, and to register for the bus/train combo if you don’t want to drive. This time, the meeting is during the mid sem break. Therefore, if you can’t attend the meeting but want to participate please please send me an email or drop a message in the comments asap so I can try to organise you into a team :))

What is Rogaining?

Rogaining is the sport of distance cross-country navigation in which teams of two to five members visit as many checkpoints as possible in the specified time. It’s kind of a mix between trail running/hiking and orienteering (sort of like a scavenger hunt in the bush!). At our meeting I will explain the rules in more detail, and if you want to read more, see here: https://rogainevic.org.au/about/