On Sunday the Passchendaele Forest played host to an orienteering event by the Bullecourt Boulder Bounders Club.
There were seven courses at the event with local members and competitors from around Toowoomba and Brisbane.
Club Publicity Officer Liz Bourne said the plantation forest was a good location for people of all levels of experience.
“It contains a good track network as well as areas of detailed granite rocks which require careful navigation so it suits all levels of ability,“ she said.
For serious orienteers the event was seen as preparation for Kingaroy on granite terrain at the Queensland Orienteering Championships being held on September 12 and 13.
There were also local Darling Downs students in the Queensland Schools team at the event. They will be heading south to Victoria next month for the Australian Schools Championships being held just outside Ballarat.
Ms Bourne said that people of all ages and experience levels are welcome at their orienteering events with courses for beginners and instruction available on basic map reading and navigation skills.
“People of all ages and levels of fitness can take up orienteering as we have competitors from 8 to 80 years regularly taking part,” she said.
