Deer
Lakes Park
Comprehensive Orienteering Training
19 May 2019
It
was a very hot day for orienteering, sunny with a temperature
about 80.
We had a total of 45 participants in the beginner sessions, 4
participants in the intermediate session and 21 participants on the
advanced exercises, for a total of 70.
Joe
Logan
designed all of the courses except the intermediate one and
taught both of the beginner sessions. The first beginner session
was split because it was so large; Sherry Shank taught half of the
participants. These
sessions began at 11 am and 1
pm with 31 participants and 14 participants, respectively.
Everyone on those courses seemed to have a good time, with a
number of parents saying that their children especially enjoyed it.
Jim
Wolfe designed the intermediate course and taught the intermediate
session which began at noon and had 4 participants. Jen Livingston also
set up the Pac Man challenge course and had 15-20 of those on the
orienteering courses try the challenge at one or more skill levels.
Participants seemed to enjoy the addition of the Pac Man
challenge to the day's activities.
The three advanced exercises consisted of a trailless course,
a fog-o course and a short-term memory course. The
trailless one was the
most popular with at least 19 people going out on it. This
was
designed just like a normal short course (about 2 km); however, all
trails had been
removed from the map; finishing times generally ranged from 1 to
3 hours. The fog-o course
was also
designed like a normal course; however, everything on a direct line
between each two controls (and for 50 m on each side) is erased; only
the area inside the control circle was normal. 3 people tried
this course..
For the memory-o course, the map at the start showed only the
first control; participants could study this as long as they liked but
could not take the map with them. There was a similar map at each
succeeding control showing the following one. Only one person
tried this course.
Thanks
to Kevin Fisher for vetting the courses. Thanks to Sherry
Shank, Barbara Johnstone, Mark Puda and Laurie Opila for
handling
registration. Thanks to Lee Bash and Barbara Johnstone for
doing
start/finish. Thanks to Alexis Rzewski, John Huffman, Lee Bash,
Hunter Bash and two other scouts for doing control pickup.
This was a training event; there are no formal results.
To see the photos that Alexis took at the event, go to here
Our next event will be on August 18 at Blue Spruce Park. This event will have five cross-country courses.