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1998-1999 Season
Reedy Creek Picnic & Meet, Oct. 17, 1998 Crowders Mountain, Nov. 7, 1998 Kings Mountain Bubba Goat, Nov. 14, 1998 McDowell Park, Dec. 5, 1998 Latta Plantation, Jan. 9, 1999 Morrow Mountain State Park, Feb. 6, 1999 Camp Grimes Weekend, Feb. 21 & 22 Kings Mountain National Military Park, Mar. 6, 1999 Kings Mountain National Military Park, Apr. 10, 1999 Camp Grimes Mountain Bike-O, May 1, 1999 Canoe-O
[Back to Top] Walter Siegenthaler created a super new map of Mt. Island Lake north of Latta Plantation to the Nature Preserve, incorporating the 2 existing maps at the north and south. I underestimated everyone's paddling time and didn't make the course or time challenging enough probably, although everyone that took the short cut through the mud up to their waist may disagree. We tried to set up a course that would make the paddlers think about what route would optimize the time limit of 90 minutes, with penalties being given for every minute past 91. Everyone finished, with all controls however, with one exception, although some were willing to accept the overtime penalties for the fun of the paddling and orienteering. Thanks to CPCC for the use of their canoes and also to Bill Ketring and Lou Stookey for their help in picking up the controls. Thanks also to Don Christensen and Howell Peterson for help in course planning and setting out controls. Jim Hall and Nancy Stephens blistered the course with their graphite paddles. Unfortunately, they were going so fast that they forgot to get one control! Harry Taylor and Liz Horgan were the quickest tandem canoe to get "all" the controls! Lou Stookey in his sea kayak was the quickest individual paddler. In fact Lou's sea kayak was so fast that he could keep up with Bill Ketring and me in my motorized canoe for a good ways while we were picking up the controls. Unfortunately we only had 8 craft out on a really nice September Saturday morning. The lake was calm with no wind. Participants included in addition to the above, the Martzs with dog, Larry and Bobbie Arnold, Sandy Kohn and Monica Sigenthaler and friend. With a little encouragement, maybe we can do a canoe-O again soon! Annual Picnic and Meet
[Back to Top] We had a beautiful early fall morning for our first regular event of the season and the club's second event on Reedy Creek's new map. This park has a relatively flat terrain, but is heavily overgrown with many creeks to cross. There were four creek crossings on both the green and the orange courses. The green course was reported to be a good course by the participants, except for the overgrowth. The orange course seemed to be on the difficult side judging by the lengthy times it was completed in. The course was of proper length for an intermediate level, approximately 4 kilometers, and the controls were of average difficulty placement. So once again we can blame it on the overgrowth. Sorry for the tough orange course. We didn't have a real large turnout for the season opening event (where are our club members?), but the JROTC group made up for any lack of noise or confusion. All of you club members that missed this event also missed a great season opening picnic hosted by Blair and Arlene. Thanks to them for their extra effort. There was plenty of food and drink to go around for all. An extra thank you to all the people who helped me with this event: Bobbie Arnold for her help with registration, Doris and Emily Curry for their help with the JROTC group time starts. Jim Hall, Nancy Stephens and Mike Davis for their help in picking up the controls afterwards. Thanks to Dan Davis for his help with instruction for the JROTC group. As you can see, it takes a lot of people to conduct an O-event. Volunteer and help our club... your club. White Course (1.62K)
Orange Course (4.05K)
Green Course (5.73K)
White Course, JROTC Teams (1.62K)
Crowders Mountain
[Back to Top] On November 7, COK again offered an orienteering meet in conjunction with Crowders Mountain State Park's annual Fall Festival. The club welcomed an ROTC group, a Scout troop, Dan Davis' CPCC Orienteering Class and numerous other participants. It was a perfect day for orienteering, although we understand that some participants found the courses to be pretty challenging (and were out in the woods just about as long as they could enjoy it). White Course
Orange Course
Orange Course - CPCC Class
Orange Course - ROTC
Green Course (Ouch!)
Red Course
Bubba Goat
[Back to Top] According to Walter, everything went well with the Bubba Goat. We had quite a few people from out of town, and the little bit of rain we had did not slow down the competitors. Here are the results. 10K course:
6K course:
McDowell
[Back to Top] The show was delayed a little due to the park not opening their gates until 9:30 AM. Thanks to Arnold Willen for setting out the White course after the gates opened, and to Doris Curry and Don Christenson for managing the registrations and starts. The weather was unbelievably warm and it helped bring a lot of orienteers out to the woods this sunny day. Including everyone in the groups, we had well over 100 folks out there. And surprise of surprises, the Green course had the most starts! White Course (2.2K)
Orange Course (3.2 K)
Green Course (5.2 K)
Latta Plantation
[Back to Top] I was disappointed to find that the weather forecast actually came true for my first experience as a meet director. However, originally expecting about twenty participants, the soggy weather and crisp, cold wind did not ruin my expectations. In fact, I estimate that my turnout was around one hundred tough runners. Thanks to all who came out. Many of you already know why I, at such a young age of eighteen, put on a local meet. As a senior I'm required to do a senior exit essay. My topic is orienteering. So, as my product, I held an orienteering meet. However, I don't want everyone thinking that I had no other incentives. I will document my product with pictures, the newsletter, and my "runner's response" sheets, in which I received suggestions of good use and comments of good laughter. Offered were the White, Yellow, Orange, and Green courses. The Orange course was more on the difficult side, but I was hoping to provide a challenge to some. On the other hand, I tried to give the Green runners an enjoyable course. There were about ten start times given out per course, with several groups on the beginners course. I had a group from my school, Girl Scout troops, Boy Scout troops, a JROTC unit, and families teaming up on White, Yellow, and Orange. Putting on the meet consumed much of my afternoons during the week. I definitely learned to appreciate the effort put forth from others when I am the participant. I encourage others to take the challenge of being the meet director, even if it would be your first time. Besides, there are always other members from the club willing to lend a hand. The help I received allowed for things to run much smoother. Thank you to Dan Davis for instructing beginners, Walter Siegenthaler, my dad, for instructing beginners, setting controls and taking care of start times, and Nelson Bass for helping me at registration when the crowd hit and helping me set controls as well. I really needed the help with our large turn out. I hope that all the participants had fun, and perhaps I'll be back as a meet director next winter. White Course
Yellow Course
Orange Course
Green Course
Morrow Mountain
[Back to Top] Blue skies, warm weather and over 140 people came together to reintroduce orienteering to Morrow Mountain State Park after a three year absence. Taking advantage of the new map, Dick Davis laid out a challenging Red course for our advance runners. I know it had to be challenging since this was the first time I have ever seen Ilari or Pasi walk into the finish. Controls Five and Six proved difficult for many of our Orange runners. Not locating these controls was the leading cause of the DNFs in this category. Thanks to Dick and Sylvia for letting me follow them through the woods setting out the Red Course. To Walter for getting the new maps printed up. To Bill for beginners instruction and managing the starts. To Al for setting out the last of the white controls. And of course to my wife, Sherry for running the registration. White Course (2.5 K)
Yellow Course (2.7 K)
Orange Course (4.0 K)
Green Course (5.2 K)
Red Course (7.2 K)
Camp Grimes
[Back to Top] I got caught in a bad snow storm in Gaston County on the way up to Grimes on Friday to set up the courses for Saturday. I discussed the hazardous travel with Dan Davis on my car phone and we agreed that it was too dangerous for me to go on up towards the mountains when more snow and freezing temperatures were predicted. Dan said he would put an announcement on the telephone hotline that the meet was cancelled for Saturday and we left Sunday open. With the bad weather, we hoped that members would check the hotline. . Apparently some folks went on up to Camp Grimes Saturday morning. I regret that they did but I wasn't willing to risk driving up there to set the Saturday meet up on Friday when I got stuck on I-85 in a blizzard and couldn't hardly see, and I know that the road freezes up there quicker than down this way. I talked to the camp ranger and told him Friday that the Saturday meet was off and to tell anyone who might not get the word. I called the ranger back on Saturday and he said that several boy scout troops had come on up and that the roads were open. I then decided to go on up and have the Sunday meet. Bill Ketring said he could come on up too on Sunday. We set up regular courses for Sunday instead of the Score O so that the Scouts could pass their requirements. Along with a few Boy Scouts,we had only 3 participants from the club on Sunday: Joe Hall, Keith Liscinsky and Al Rogers. (Better luck next time, John!) Kings Mountain
[Back to Top] Driving to Kings Mountain I encountered a rainstorm and thought, this one is going to be rained out. By the time I arrived the rain was receding and it looked like the day would turn out good after all. With the help of Dan Davis to set out the white course we were ready to get under way. There were two large groups of Scouts that showed up and thanks to the help of Jim Hall and Walter Siegenthaler they were given great instruction. Theresa (my wife) helped me with the registration and was kept busy collecting the money and handing out maps. Now, for the orienteers who did the Green course, my humble apologies for the misplacement of control number 5. There were people who had found the control and then others who did not. Upon picking up the controls, I saw that I had placed it about 150 to 200 meters south of where it should have been. Overall we had a great turnout and hoped everyone enjoyed it. Thanks to John Ide for picking up the white course when everyone was through. White Course
Orange Course
Green Course
Kings Mountain Redux
[Back to Top] (Report to follow when available.) White Course (2.6 km)
Yellow Course (2.62 km)
Orange Course (4.35 km)
Green Course (6.5 km)
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