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THE Irish Oraenceec ALPS ALPS the with Dawson Stelfox with 'Ibmas Aylward No CLIMBING IN THE CANOEING IN THE IRISh oraenceec ALPS ALPS the with Dawson Stelfox with 'Ibmas Aylward No. 64 June - July 1993 IR£1.00 Dawson is leading two trips to the This two week course is designed for Mont Blanc Area in the French Alps. those who are visiting the Alps to paddle The emphasis is on gaining the skills for the first or second time. There will be required for independent climbing. a combination of coaching and classic white water trips with visits to the Dawson can advise you as to a choice Durance, Gyronde, Ubaye and many of climbs should you wish to stay for a other river basins. further week. COST: £285.00 COST: £250.00 DATES: ALP 1 31 July - 6 Aug. ALP 2 9 - 15 August Mm 26 June - 10 July CLIMBING IN NEPAL CANOEING IN THE With Dermot Somers CAUCASES with Humphrey Murphy Building on the success of last year's trip to Imjatse (Island Peak) Dermot wiff This year Humphrey will again don his be leading a trip to Naya Kanga (19; 180 ft.) in the Langtang Area North red socks to lead an exciting exploration of Kathmandu. of Russian and Ukrainian culture and white water. The trip involves 14 days This will be a great opportunity t: paddling and 3 days of sightseeing in experience Nepalese culture anc! -:.'il:1b Moscow and the Caucases. You fly, while your boat travels overland. in a beautiful and unspoilt area. COST: £ 1,600.00 COST: £900.00 DATES: 3 - 4 weeks Oct.lNov. DATES: 24 July' - 13 August For further details ou these Bud all our courses contact The Booking ornee, Tiglin, the National Adventure Centre, Ashford, Co. Wicklow. Ph. (0404) 40169 or Fax. (0404) 40701 40 The Irish Orienleer TI,e irish Orienteer is avail- THE IRISH ORIENTEER able through all Irish orien- USEFUL ADDRESS LIST teering c1ubs. All material con- The Irish Orienteer AJAX ORlENTEERS Tara Horan, 12 Alhlumney Villas, Ranelagh, Dublin 6, (01-974458) cerning orienteering will be No.64 June - July 1993 ISSN 0790-1194 gratefully received by the BLACKWATER VAllEY OC EPenFeehan, Searteen Lr., Newmarl<el,ce, Co",_ Editor, John McCullough. 9 BOLTON ST_ORIENTEERS Andrew O'Mullane, Siudenis' Union, Coflege 01 Technology, BoUonSI., Dublin 1_(01-933891) Arran Road, Drumcondra, CORK ORlENTEERS Rlla Sheehan, Kileendanlel, WMechurch, Co. Co", (021-301457) Dublin 9. CONGRATULATIONS CURRAGH-NAAS o RlENTEERS E~eenLoughman, 169 Monread Heights. Naas. Co. KIldare (045-79780) Subscriptions: £6_50 per DUBLIN UNVERSlTV 0 Mary Blrken, Box 67, Regent House, TCD, Dublin 2. No, not to the Irish Champions or to Three Rock on their annum (six issues), EASTERN COMMAND OC John de Lacy, 9 Heather Grove, Marlay Wood, Dublin 16_ running of the Irish Championships at Carlingford, but to the Irish Mount Everest expedition and to Dawson Stelfox who represented us FERMANAGH ORlENTEERS Teresa Finley, Gortatole OEC, Ftorenceoourt,Oo, Fermanagh (08-036582-470) Next TlO Copy Date isl on the roof of the world, I'm sure that all us orienteers here at home FINGAL ORIENTEERS Lillian Quill, 640 Collin. Ave., Whitehall, Dublin 9. (01-376506) August 20th would agree that it was a great achievement by the whole expedition FORMER UCCO Tony Joyce, Llndl.'arne, Bishopstown, Cork (021-541246). -or furtherinformalion on onen- team. You see, orienteering in Ireland very much grew from mountain- tccring, contact the Irish Orien- eering, where in other countries it evolved from military exercises or GREAT EASTERN NAVIGATORS Nora Lalor, 159 Cappoghmore, Clondalkln, Dublin 22 (01-573229) teering Association, clo AFAS, was an ofshoot of athletics, The links with mountaineering have always House of Sport, Long Mile Road, KERRY ORIENTEERS Rory Costello, 14 MMor Cour1,M.nor ,VIII.ge, Trolee, co. Kerry. (066-25532) been quite strong: many an oricntccr, when the maps arc put away or on Dublin 12 (01·501633/569099). KEVIN ST_ORIENTEERS Eoln Dunne, Students' Union, Coil. 01 Technology, Kevin St., Dublin 8, (01·2698489) Cover: Fingal's Jean O'Neill the odd free weekend, takes to the bills or the crags for abitof divarsion, LAGAN VALLEY ORIENTEERS Alon Gartside, 22 Ormiston Drlva, BeHastBT4 3JS (08-0232-655065). storms in to finish at the 1992 and some noted mountaineers aren't averse to funning round with map and compass from time to time, As was pointed out in a recent TIO, LEE ORIENTEERS Clare NuHall,4 Up,_Panorama Tee., Sunday's Well, Cork (021·300373) Two Day in June '93. Everest edpedition members f-rank Nugent and Robbie Fenlon are no LElNSTER SCHOOLS' OA Eveleen McAuley, 19The NurllIrles, Killarney Ro_d, Bray, Co. Wloklow. (01·2828308), CONTENTS strangers to orienteering. while Dawson Stelfox and Dermot Somers are UTTLE IOLLARY OC Mary Young, Llnle Killary Adventure Centre, Solruck, Renvyle, Co. Galway (095-43411). New. ""gel 4 fortunate in being married to orientcers. Indeed, it is largely due to ICC 03 R.pon 9 PHOENX NAVIGATORS Breda Daly, Camcloon, Ballydangen, Co. Rosconmon (0905·73502) IOCRes.lI. tl mountaineers such as Sean Rothery, Joss Lynam, Mike Lunt and Paddy JK Report 14 O'leary that we started orienteering in the first place. NORTH WEST OC Maureen Loughery, 39 Mayols Ave., Castle Dawson BT4S 8RA, Co. Derry (08·0648-68602). Mum",rChampforuhlpo 14 Ad""nturc manthon 16 The days of the generalist arc starling to surface again: SETANTA ORIENTEERS Jocelyn Csthalln, 38 Taney Road, Dund,um, Dublin 14 (01-2985799) Irlth Orftl1l«rTropby t8 Mounlaln Runnin, 18 orienteering one day, caving, rock climbing, canoeing, hill running. SOUTHERN ORIENTEERS Kevin O'Dwyer, 2 Wellington Vilas, MUllaryHID,Cork (021·506740) Muns"" OA Nt .. , 19 board sailing or cross country racing the next: it may not make for CarUnafotd map 20 THOMOND ORIENTEERS Alan Shaw,lnnlsmore, 40Coflege Park, Corbally, Llnnerlok(061·343958) The Unsoen Map 22 excellence in anyone field but it's not dull! Are we not lucky to live in Lelns"'r Ne", 2) a country where there arc so many opportunities for adventure sports on THREE ROCK OC Vera Murtagh, 19 The CloIlle,., Te,enure, Dublin 6w (01-908237)_ ConlUchl 101.... 2A ConnschlNewl 18 our doorsteps? UCC ORIENTEERS AHeenMead, PE OIIlee, UCC, College Road, Cork. Club Ne ... Pagu 2S Mountain Running 22 UCD ORIENTEERS Ceriyn Dunney, Box 55, Arts Block, Beilleld, Dublin 4. Resul.. 28 Well, OK. I think 3ROC should really becongratulated on the flblu",s 38 UCG ORIENTEERS Slve Baxter, do Porter's Desk, ConCOUrlle,Unlversfty College, Galway_ great events they ran at Carlingford for the Irisb Championships. I may be biased but I think it all went off very well and was a fitting highlight WATERFORD ORIENTEERS Veronica Purcell, Lodge's Lane, Newtown HIli, Tramore, Co. Waterford. Why not write for The Irish II Orienteer? of the orienteering year, Running a major event takes a lot of hard work IRISH O-ASSOCIATION Flnola O'Oonoghue, House of Sport, Longmlle Road, Dublin 12. (01-569099) by a lot of people and running an Irish Championships seventy miles IRISH O-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION Deirdre Ryan, Regional Technical College OC, Dublin Road, Gatway Results and articles call from base imposes further problems. As the organising team said many NORTHERN IRELAND OA Myra Patterson, Oakbank, Mount Prospnct, Darryl/n, Ennlskillen, Co. Fermanagh,.BT92 9LS now be accepted on virtually times during the long weeks running up to the event "You couldn'rpay (08-038582-8133) any form of floppy disk people 10 do this". The whole sport depends on willing volunteers at BRITISH O-FEDERATION Rlversdale, Dale Rood North, Darley Dale, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 2HX (03-0629-734042, from most commonly used every level, from mapping to planning, laking entries to repairing FAX 03-0629-733769). computers. Especially fences afterwards. To all the unsung heroes who run all our competi- INTERNATIONAl O-FEDERATION Lennart Levin, Box 76, S-191 21 SoIlentuna, Sweden (16-46-~35345S, FAX 16-46-8357168) results! tions, big and small, thank you very much. You give a great deal of TIGUN ADVENTURE CENTRE Adrrinlslralor: Maeve McPher90n, TIglln, Ashlord, co. Wicklow (0404-40169). happiness to very many people. Primed by Denlon Print, Dundrum, Finally, thanks to all of you who contributed to this issue, Dublin 14 (01·2988944). Remember, if you are orienteering anywhere interesting this summer, 24-hour fixtures information on 01-569099 do give us a report on it for no. 2 The Irish Orienteer The Irish Orienteer 3 ANYONE FOR SHAMROCK? GEN GO PRO can save seconds on the things·you repeat MANY Six courses of varying length are available, not all TIMES - you only start ONCE! as· tough as these! For. details and entry forms At the time of writing the entries to the Shamrock Following on from revelations made by GEN (via the Scottisb Ovnewsletter "SCORE") contact Rohan (Mountain Marathon), 30 Mary- O-Ringen at the end of June stand at 340 with 200 Cbairperson Mary Healy at the lOA AGM in land Road, Tongwell.Milton KeynesMK15 8HN, from Ireland and 1'40 from elsewhere, largely March, Great Eastern Navigators bave taken the England. Britain. As 110 has pointed out before, the amount bold step of em ploy ing an orien tcer to do mappin g ODDS 'n' ENDS 'n' ODDS •... of work going into this event, indeed into any event work under a FAS youth employment scheme for The Rohan Rock and Run Mountain Marathon is of this type, is immense, but the respon se from Irish the next year. Paul Nolan is now working for the The Lowe Alpine Comeragh Challenge moun- back in business. This event is to be run in Scotland tain marathon on May 29- 30 was acclaimed a great orienteers has always been very disappointing.
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