The 2025 Cliffhanger Off Road Event, which features tough winch courses, long navigation stages and fast creek runs for 4×4 racing, was held at Mt Gap Station north of Cobar last week. The event has been running for more than 20 years and attracts competitors from around Australia to test their vehicles and their four wheel driving skills in some very unforgiving terrain. Pictured is one of the teams competing in a winch challenge up a steep, rocky hill.
See this week’s edition for a report on how the local 50seven Automotive team went this year!
The ever improving Claudine Griffiths finished as the handicapped winner of the Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad’s (CATS’) December triathlon event at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool on Sunday morning. Claudine posted a personal best time of 44 minutes, 25 seconds for the Short Course, which was a 300m swim, […]
Cobar Parkrun celebrated a big milestone (with cake) on Saturday holding its 300th event which welcomed a group of 16 locals and visitors to walk, jog or run 5km around the Newey Reserve. Wellington visitor, Leon Richardson, set a cracking time of 17 minutes, 31 seconds (just outside Rabi Phuyal’s […]
Cobar was well represented in Nyngan on Sunday with eight women and nine men golfers competing in the mixed Open which saw over 140 players in attendance. Narelle Kriz was the Ladies Open Champion having a scratch score of 75. While most players found the greens lightning fast (or their […]