Long-awaited results of the Annual Trail Run
at the Mendon Ponds Park have been published.
November 17, 2003
Permanent courses information has been added to the web site.
In addition, GPS is now a possibility on our permanent courses!
The club has recently recorded the Latitude and Longitude of each of the controls which means that those of
you who have a GPS can now use it to go out and complete the permanent courses.
More detailed information is available on the Permanent Courses page.
There will be a special night-O this Saturday, Nov. 1, at Mendon Ponds Park. The club hasn't held a
"real" night-O for several years (the Grinch-O is at night, but it is a rather special event, as
anyone who has participated knows!). We hope that many of you will come out to participate; Night-O is a lot of fun.
The courses will be ones that can be handled in the darkness reasonably well. We will be using the White and Yellow
courses from the recent A-meet. The White course is all on trails, while the Yellow course can be completed by staying
on trails up until the immediate area of the control, or there are a couple of places where a route choice would be to
cut through the woods as opposed to taking a longer trail route.
In the interest of not having people out until all hours of the night, there will be a couple of changes from the
normal meet procedure:
1. There will be a mass start at 5:30 pm (or a bit later if it isn't sufficiently dark by then).
2. There will be a strict 2-hour time limit on both courses. So if we start right at 5:30, everyone needs to be back by 7:30.
The starting location is at Stewart Lodge, which is near the beach parking lot.
The courses will be slightly changed from the A-meet in that we will start right at Stewart Lodge, rather than
starting across the road where the A-meet courses started.
Registration will begin at around 4:30 pm.
Please contact Dick Detwiler with any questions on this meet.
October 26, 2003
ROC 2003 A-Meet results and electronic punching data have been published at the
results page.
September 20th is National Orienteering Day. Clubs all over the country
are having meets intended to introduce newcomers to our sport. Our meet is
at Highland Park in the city. The start is at the Recreation Center behind
School #12 on South Avenue across from Highland Hospital. Registration
begins at 11; starts are 12-2PM. With luck the hurricane or what is
left of it will have moved out by then. If you have doubts whether the meet is
on, call the hotline (585) 377-5650. It won't be cancelled unless
conditions are considered dangerous.
As always we need help in several areas: registration, start/finish,
and also crossing guards. You can work a short shift on any of these jobs
before or after doing your course. Please let us know (by email or
585-442-6358) if you know you will be able to help; otherwise, approach
Rick or Dayle at the meet.
Come and bring friends!
Rick and Dayle Lavine, course setters and meet directors
September 15, 2003
Results from the July 23 Score-O meet
are finally available.
September 10, 2003
Electronic version of the September issue of The Wild Times is
available.
August 12, 2003
Location of the October 5 meet is to be changed. Camp Pinewood can not
host the meet on the planned date, new location will be announced soon.
August 7, 2003
Orienteering workshop for teachers wil take place
on September 13 at Powder Mills Park. Look into the
brochure for detailed information
and registration form.
June 18, 2003
Results from the July 12 meet at Black Creek Park
are now available.
Membership