The Minnenooka 12 hour rogaine will be held about 20 km south east of Geraldton.  Perth based rogainers will find the country a bit different to what they are used to - no Jarrah trees grow this fra north, for instance.

The area is rich farming country where it is flat, but in other places the hills are steep and covered in vegetation. The elevation ranges from about 80 metres on the river to over 200 metres in the high country. The Greenough river does a big loop through the area.  The river is particularly attractive with many pools and large trees lining the banks.  At the southern end of the course is the Walkaway wind farm.

The event is being held on a long weekend Sunday.  This will allow "southerners" to travel to Geraldton on Saturday and home on Monday.  It is hoped that Geraldton people will take the opportunity to participate in a rogaine in their back yard.  WARA will be conducting an "introduction to Rogaining" course for locals who are rogaining for the first time.

The pdf showing where all past south western WA bush rogaines were located has been updated 29 March 2012, view it here waraevents-2012-04-17.pdf.

Over the past few events Admin has noted that a number of control cards have been handed in where the team number is illegible. After some investigation, the reason why some control cards with a lot of punches come in moderately clean while other with only a few punches are unreadable was discovered. The answer appears to be simple - those cards that are folded with the printing on the inside are legible while those folded with the printing on the outside cannot be read after even a short rogaine.