Fall Newsletter 1996
We hope everyone had a great summer and are now ready to get out and go
orienteering.
Canadian Orienteering Championships
A few club members, Noel Roy, Elizabeth Oliver, Kagan Roy, Michael Rayment
and Phil Graham, ventured off the island to attend the Canadian Orienteering
Championships held in Wakefield, Quebec near Gatineaux Park. The
weather was perfect for orienteering, sunny but not too hot, and the area
boasted vast areas of runnable woods with intricate land forms and
numerous boulders and cliffs. Needless to say the courses were
challenging but by carefully navigating through the maze of features we
were able to successfully locate even the most difficult controls.
Many thanks to the Ottawa Orienteering Club for doing such a great job
in hosting this years Canadian Orienteering championships.
Summer Mapping Project
Again this summer our club received a Challenge'96 grant to do some mapping.
After the success of the test meet in Butterpot Park this spring, we
decided to extend the Butterpot Map so that we could hold this years
Provincial Championships there. John Paul Richards and Jared Rypkema
did field work on the east side of Butterpot Park and extended the
digitized portion of the Butterpot Park map. They also digitized a number of
older maps such as Bowring Park and Rotary Park to make updating and
reprinting of these maps easier. In addition they started field work on
the South Side Hills map that we will hopefully use next year.
Fall Events
We will be starting off this fall with an event on Bell Island. The
ferry leaves Portugal Cove at 11:20AM, 1:05PM and 1:45PM and returns from Bell
Island at 2:25pm, 3:45pm, 5:00pm, 6:00pm and 7:30pm. We have
a special group rate for the 11:20am ferry. Regular ferry rates apply to all
other times.
Provincial Championships
This year the
Provincial Orienteering Championships
will be held in Butterpot Park. There will be courses for all ages and
levels of experience. Make it a point to come out and visit Butterpot
Park and take in our event.
We will be printing maps on a color laser printer so be sure to register
before Wednesday, Oct 2.
Other Events
For all other events please refer to our schedule.
Note that there is a $2.00 map fee for all courses.
We have our Fall schedule on the Internet and
our home page is "http://www.cs.mun.ca/~sjoc" so if you have access to
the Internet check out our home page.