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VOL. 9 NO. 1 1981

CONTENTS

Editor's Depressions 4 Russians for WM Medals 5 Canadian '0' Championships 1981 6 Racing Tips 8 Western Canadian '0' Championships 12 Junior Participation Program 13 Western Canadian '0' Championships-Results 14 New Zealand Notes 16 1980 B.C. Mountain Marathon .19 Mountain Madness 20 Results-B.C. Mountain Marathon 21 Ode to Mountain Marathon 24 Photo and Slogan Contest 25 Orienteering Development in Canada 26 Western Canada Technique Training Clinic 30 Orientacion en Mexico 33 C.O.F. Drops 38 President's Niche 40 Orienteering -Report 41 ORIENTEERING CANADA is published in Ottawa with the assistance of the National Sport and Recreation Administration Centre. EDITOR: Ted de St. Croix TYPIST: Lee Leger CONTRIBUTORS: Ted de St. Croix, Tony Byrne, Gabrielle Savard, Greg Whitecliffe, Afan Jones, Gillian Foster, . Juri Peepre, Colin Kirk, Pat de St. Croix, Sheila Andrew. ADDRESSES: EDITOR Ted de St. Croix, Box 316 Vineland, LOR 2C0 Editors Depressions

The first issue in 1981 was stopping to read the map every twenty produced under the experienced meters trying to pin point where you arms of Colin Kirk and Lee Leger. are? Racing Tips may solve your Thanks are due them for a good problems. job. We've tried to provide a national meet schedule but some 1980 was a typical orienteering year provinces have been slow in get- in Canada as illustrated by our ting their's together. With only cartoon feature. We would like your four editions of this magazine cartoons for strange and unique (or a year, the first one is crucial humdrum) activities you partake in in bringing news of the year's during the 1981 orienteering year. activities. It requires planning Think rain' ahead' In 1978 a group of phys-ed students 1981 will see some changes to COF from the National University of most notably, the election of Mexico competed in orienteering for Pat de St.. Croix to the post of their first time in the Swedish 5- President of C.O.F. Her inaugur- day 0-Ringen Meet. Later they ation did not cost 8 million faced tough orienteering at the dollars and we can thank her for World Student Championships in Fin- that,. Her views and plans, hope- land, posting times of four or five fully, will attract response from hours over 15 km. you Since then orienteering saw no support Once again took or growth in Mexico. In February of advantage of their majestic this year, Per Sandberg (of Sweden's mountains to host the 1980 B C. National 'B' team) and I spent Mountain Orienteering Race. four weeks drawing maps and holding Thanks to Afan Jones for clinics. The promotion committee of the article, IOF gave us some travel money to send us there. Hopefully, Mexico will Are you still finding yourself soon be hosting a schedule of winter doing well in some terrains and events for your holiday pleasure terrible in other terrains? Perhaps you've been using the Every year the three provinces of wrong techniques. Are you still B C , , and get

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together to see who is the best province. In 1979 B.C. edged out Manitoba with Alberta a distant third. This past year Alberta played host with Alberta champicn Russian For and former national team member, WM Medals? Scott Robertson and his "alternate energy" friend and 1979 Western Canadian Champion, Don Bayly, as Recent reports on the hundreds of thousands of registered orient- Meet Directors . eers in the USSR may have raised some eyebrows, and news that they New Zealand seems to be developing have examined the Finnish WM79 courses confirms their interest in with similar problems found here the sport. Wilf Holloway reports in Canada Greg Whitecliffe out- that the Russians have already lines the problems in an interest- surprised the experts in Eastern ing, descriptive essay One of European Competitions. our hardest working volunteers The Russian and Czechoslovakian trying to solve such problems is relay teams recently finished a major race barely seconds apart Juri Peepre of Vancouver. In this with the likes of Hungary well down. issue he sets up his committee's And the Czechs were no slouches proposals with a frank account of when their team contained two the status of Orienteering in world champs men. Orienteering may not have acquired the "prestige" Canada . of full Olympic status yet but it seems clear now anyway that we can Congratulations to Egon Rupners of expect a resounding appearance by the reds as soon as they've the Ottawa Orienteering Club who convinced themselves of their won two Gold medals in the Men's strength. 65 to 69 age class 5 km and 10 km Its unlikely to be WM81 in Swit- races at the Canadian Track and zerland but the odds are strong on Field Championships. His times Hungary two years later. Terrain, of 22:50 and 46:28 are very maps and politics will all be to their liking. Our sport is rela- respectable for this time honoured tively young and there is no doubt Marathon runner, orienteer, white that full scientific and financial water canoeist. Try them on your backing could bring success, where average 25 year old. research and money are largely lacking in the West. Some experts expect the Russians to Derek Clayton (fastest Marathon emerge with a whallop: If recent ever in the World) competed in 3 results tell a true story, they'll orienteering meets in California be medal contenders in both relays in 1980 placing 8th over all on -- even if the Scandinavian individ- uals are far too strong for them the Orange Course first time out.

Ted de St.Croix (taken from CompassSport)

5 Canadian Orienteering Championships 1981 Information

The Orienteering Association of B.C. Travel invites you to take part in a Western Festival of Orienteering There are large numbers of flights centered around the 1981 Canadian to , and Vancouver Championships (August 15-16, from all parts of Canada and from ). This will be the first some U S. points. A selection of time that the COC has gone west of budget fares are available for Lake Ontario and together with those booking ahead. Pacific some of our neighbours we have Western flies into Kamloops from planned a week that will introduce Vancouver (4 flights daily), Calgary you to the orienteering and scenic (2 flights) and Edmonton and Prince pleasures of the West. George. Kamloops is also connected with Vancouver and Calgary by Via We recommend that you approach Rail and the Trans-Canada Highway. Kamloops from either Vancouver or Calgary and take in some of the Accommodation: pre-C.O.C. events being organized. Hotel/motel accommodation is readily Timetable: available in Alta./B C. though not Aug. 2 8 3- B.C. Champs. Pr. George. always cheap. Camping is popular Sat. Aug. 8 - Seattle, Washington and costs very little at the provi- Cascade O. Club Meet ncial parks, though in the summer months campsites are often taken by Sun. 9 - Hinton, Alta. "A" Meet Blue Lake Centre mid-afternoon. Camping for orient- eers will be arranged in the Banff, Alta. "B" Meet Merritt and Kamloops areas close to the O. event sites. If the organ- Vancouver, B.C. "Sass Peepre Memorial Event." izers receive sufficient requests, hostel type accommodation will also Mon. 10 - Banff, Alta "B" Meet be arranged in the Kamloops area. Wed. 12 ) Merritt, B.C. 2-Day Canadian Championships: Thur. 13 ) Total Time "A" Event Sat. 15 ) Kamloops, B.C. 1981 COC Kamloops is in the south central Sun. 16 ) 2-day Total Time Event part of B.C. close to the north Mon 17 Kamloops, Interprov. end of the famous Okanagan fruit Relay. growing and resort area. The

6 town is located in a semi-desert forest growing on interesting old valley surrounded by rolling ranch- lava flows just north of Vancouver. ing country and spectacular forested Proceeds from the latter event will mountains. August weather in go to the Sass Peepre Memorial Fund. these parts is almost always excel- The mountain scenery is again lent and even though a little hot spectacular and you might even try a in the main valley, it is usually dip in the Pacific! pleasantly warm in the hills where the orienteering will take Merritt is a couple of hours south place. The meet site is a mixture of Kamloops and is located on of open and semi-open ranchland Nicola Lake amid interior Douglas- and forest, dotted with lakes. The fir forest and open ranching country. The Meet Director is Tony Byrne and The terrain is very similar to the Jack Lee (of Hamilton, Ont.) is COC terrain and will serve as a good the event Controller. The main training ground for the big one. social event is being planned for Sunday night and a relay event (to We promise you lots of quality alleviate your hangover?) for the orienteering, wonderful scenery and Monday morning a good dose of Western Hospitality. Plan to be there! Additional Events If you have any queries or need more Orienteering in Alberta takes information contact: place in some of the best orient- eering terrain in Canada-the foot- The COC Organizing Committee hills of the Rockies The forests OABC, 100-1200 Hornby St. are largely pine forests of fairly Vancouver, B.C. open running; the terrain is roll- V6Z 2E2 ing and the maps are good. Between and after events the mountains are Tony Byrne there for your enjoyment, with Banff and Jasper just down the road from the meet sites The journey down to Kamloops from the Rockies will take you through Canada's most famous National Parks.

The coastal events will be held in completely different terrain - some coastal Douglass-fir forest close to Seattle and open nine

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Racing Tips

Consistency during a race and during marshes, forest lines, fences, ridges. the season is the most important spurs, re-entrants and hillsides. goal to work for in orienteering. If the area is very detailed without When striving for this goal, one has linear features, the orienteer must to learn to ignore fellow competi- read his map very carefully and tors, concentrate 100% of the time, create corridors by simplifying the and learn to use a system for find- details into larger features or by ing the control features. picking out unique features.

Once one has accomplished the This requires constant map checks things mentioned above, they can • on the run and does take time. An advance to learning a better system oriented map and map-reading by and different systems for different thumb greatly simplify things. terrains and quality maps This orienteer tends not to go in A system is basically a set of straight lines but to wander from techniques one uses to find controls feature to feature always knowing The "Corridor" method uses the map exactly where he is. This orienteer quite extensively; whereas the will always take a rough bearing in "Compass" method uses the map the the direction of the control and most in the vicinity of the control will refer to it only if they lose only. With both of these techni- contact with the map. They will ques, one has to have a pre-set then follow the bearing always method of moving past the control looking for something unique with on to the next leg without losing which to locate themselves on the time. Both methods have advantages map. This orienteer will rarely lose and disadvantages depending on the himself and is a good candidate terrain, map and your own abilities. for a relay team. They will consistently place well. The corridor method,as its name implies,is a method in which the The compass orienteer depends more orienteer creates a corridor to on accurate rough compass work, pace lead him towards his attack point counting and a high running speed and then the control This orienteer will pick out a large To create this corridor, the orien- collecting feature near the control teer uses hand rails such zs trails and run full speed straight for it

8 ignoring the small details in orienteer will gain a lot of time on between provided there are no the more exact orienteer. This is obstacles. providing the compass orienteer uses attack points for every control. If there are no dependable attack points this orienteer will either To train for the corridor method revert to the corridor method requires many hours of map reading and slow down or take a chance and on the run One method I found very go straight for the control feature useful was a type of line orienteer- It is on this leg that the race ing Our "coach" drew several lines will be won or lost by the compass on each trainee'smap (there were orienteer If they spike it time four of us) such that when the will be gained on the corridor leader stopped at the end of one of but if they miss it is usually a his line (about 1 km long) on the big one and the race can be lost map another runner would begin. by a large margin The others had to read the map to follow the route taken in case they The ultimate would be to utilize were next to lead the Pack. I both techniques during a race found leading the pack much easier depending on the leg but is ex- than following another. When tremely difficult and I've been leading, I was more concentrated warned against it I was told by and was able to read ahead of a former Swedish champion that one where I was. When following some- must use one or the other and not one else, I had to keep trying to mix them He uses the corridor figure out where I was going or method. more accurately, where I had been. This indicates the difference In continental terrain (open forest, between good and bad orienteers. trail network, planted forests) the One who can look ahead of where he corridor method is best because is can cover the ground faster. the straight compass route is One who tends to see where he is dangerous because of the occasional presently or has been,will move dense thickets, large hill climbs much slower and will get lost quicker. and similar looking vegetation

boundaries . To train the compass method, one should initially learn to choose The compass method is best in thick good attack points. Boulders, re- forest or detailed flattish rough entrants, pits and spurs tend to terrain such as found in Scandi- be poor attack points. Marsh ends, navia and parts of Canada. There trail junctions, field corners, long are simply too many details to cliff ends or stream junctions make read them all and the compass good ones. it 9 r

Running rough compass requires a good deal of practice and obser- vation for tendencies to wander. Take bea rings on linear features at a 90 angle and see if you tend to drift to one side or the other. Map #1. A. Corridor Method This could be because you always (below) B. Compass go left around trees and bushes or C. Corridor thickets. It may also be due to looking at the compass held by A Uses hillsides and a string of your chest or side which can tilt knolls and depressions. it from the horizontal. The B. Compass to attack point. compass is held waist high C. Uses trail, vegetation bound- straight out in front of you. ary and trail again.

One final step is learning to cover the complete race course stopping only to punch your control card. You have to read the map on the run, take bearings while running and follow bearings on the run. You must be confident enough to choose a route one leg in advance. Note the control code before siting the control and then checking the direction out of the control to the next, just as you first see the control flag. What you end up doing, basically, is taking the course as a whole rather than one leg at a time. Your orienteering becomes much smoother and less eratic or stop and go. Do you say to yourself A . when competing, "Okay, here are two knolls. They must be the two / • shown here after the river I have just crossed." or do you say, Map #2. (Pictured next column). "There should be two knolls on the 1. A. long route around on trail other side of the river and to the trails. left of the knolls should be the B. Compass good attack point. trail I want." The second person C. Difficult map reading but above will be the faster. best attack point.

10 Map #3 (below) Learn to simplify the map. Try this region A and Region B. Possible answers on Page 15 .

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2. A. Reads trails into control B. Takes chance due to lack of attack points. Must read features as he goes. C. Same as A. only shorter but more difficult.

1 1 Western Canadian Orienteering Championships

The second annual western With lots of Orienteering gossip on Canadian Orienteering Championships the day's experiences in the woods (hosted by the Calgary Kangaroos) of Pocaterra Creek, most returned were held in Alberta this year, to the Ribbon Creek youth hostel Oct. 11 & 12, 1980 in the Kanana- for a big barbecue put on outside skis area, located between Calgary (or was it the ban of "wine & spirits" and Banff. All 3 western provin- inside the hostel that compelled ces were well represented, with them to stay out in the cold?...) 27 coming in from Manitoba, 20 while most stayed in the stuffy TT-bm B.C., and 6£1 from Alberta, warmth of the building. After the and 1 from Saskatchewan. 112 pre- meal, a highly successful and registered orienteers, and a hilarious raffle took place under the number of late entries totalling direction of the Robertsons. Bottles 117 in all. of wine, gift certificates, glasses mugs, a handy-dandy-all-purpose The terrain was good for orienteer- light, a thermos (huge), a jacket, ing (a little thick in certain a sport bag, a tape de-magnetizer parts of the woods), and everyone and many other fine prizes were was pleased with the map made by drawn. Len VanDer Meer and Jim our Swedish friends, Leo, Leif, Webster were lucky enough to win and Jan, this past summer. their own Colonel Saunders piggy- banks. Under sunny blue skies, orienteers took off on their respective A big campfire followed with lots of courses after an initial short song, laughter and participation, the delay due to late registrants (as Edmonton group leading many of the usual)... Everyone returned safely rounds. Eugene Ulmer started, "I'm with no casualties (for the St. going Orienteering, (repeat), but John Ambulance attendant), except I'm not afraid, (repeat), with my for the park ranger who made the trusty compass, (repeat) and my map mistake of running in shorts. The by my side (repeat)," the theme standings were then B.C. and song for the weekend was found... Alberta tied for first in the and finally, John Yardley, a new contest for the provincial shield member of the AOA, from New Zealand, with 12 points each. Manitoba was tried teaching his amazed audience a in second with 31 points. Maori war dance, (chaotic,but lots

12 of fun). Everyone then retired for It is hoped that the 1981 "0" the night, some sleeping in the season will be as productive and hostel, others in trailers and vans fun-filled for all "veterans" of and a few under the stars. the sport as well as attracting many new faces, A cold morning greeted the drowsy Gabrielle Savard • orienteers as they climbed the hill to the start, and numb fingers made the first few control punches some- what difficult,— While most Junior Participation orienteers returned with the satis- Program faction of having successfully(?..) completed their "0" courses, others Enclosed with this issue of O. Canada were not so content as they knelt is a Junior Participation Card. If in icy Pocaterra Creek to reduce you are of junior age and not already inflammation of injured knees in the program START NOW by putting (under the supervision of our the 'tally card' With your '0' meet friendly Physio from Prince George, equipment and take it to all events Karen Peterson), this season.

When awards were given out, Albert- If you are a senior member, give ans hooted with joy as they received the card to a junior member of your the Provincial Shield for the club and encourage him/her to start fewest points 22 in all. In second participating in the program. place were the B„C, crowd, with 26 points, and in 3rd, Manitoba Names of Juniors already in the with 65 Other outstanding per- program and current level of badge formances were those of Afan Jones achieved: and Robyn Rennie from Vancouver, who were the men and women's elite BLUE: (40 events total) category champions this year, Russell Kilbourn - Calgary, Alta. Eric Mark- Willowdale, Ont. Many thanks to all the organizers and helpers, in particular Don RED: (25 events total) Bayly and Scott Robertson from the Calgary Kangaroos, who worked very Linda Heron - Fredericton, N.B. long and hard to make the weekend Stephen Heron - Fredericton, N.B. as successful as it was. These Gina Lane - Calgary, Alta. Orienteering gatherings are especi- Stephen Paisley - Stanley, N.B. ally great for renewing old friend- Nina Waddington - Hamilton, Ont. ships and meeting new and interest- (continued page 29) ing people.

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WESTERN CANADIAN ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS KANANSKIS PROVINCIAL PARK, ALBERTA, OCT. 11-12, 1980 6, (min.) BLUE H21 TOTAL DAY 1 DAY 2

1. Afan Jones B.C. 118:43 57:09 (1) 61:34 (2) 2. Bruce Jeffries Alta. 122:41 62:24 (2) 60:17 (1) 3. John Yardley Alta. 131:45 64:46 (3) 66:59 (4) 4. Reidar Zaff-Gilje B.C. 135:09 68:06 (4) 67:03 (5) 5. Peter Hague Man. 139:33 70:58 (6) 68:35 (6) RED D21 1. Robyn Rennie B.C. 106:05 54:36 (1) 51:29 (1) 2. Susan Foster B.C. 114:55 61:29 (2) 53:26 (2) 3. Urszula Heikkila Alta. 128:38 66:56 (4) 61:42 (5) 4. Raelene Robertson Alta. 130:32 72:06 (6) 58:26 (3) 5. Gabrielle Savard Alta. 133:12 71:59 (5) 61:13 (4) H17-20 1. Pat Berting B.C. 110:41 54:12 (1) 56:29 (1) 2. Luke Savoie Man. 159:07 78:03 (2) 81:04 (2) 3. Larry McFarlene Man. 164:42 82:07 (3) 82:35 (3) H35 1. Arvo Heikkila Alta. 128:18 70:00 (1) 58:18 (1) 2. Cy Pecksen Alta. 141:08 78:53 (2) 62:15 (2) ' 3. George Murphy Alta. 156:29 89:17 (3) 67:12 (4) ORANGE H15-16 1. John Crowley B.C. 79:15 43:36 (1) 35:39 (1) 2. Russ Kilbourn Alta. 100:28 54:01 (3) 46:27 (2) 3. Glen Pardoe Alta. 121:15 48:30 (2) 72:45 (4) • D35 1. Pat Lee Man, 101:21 55:33 (1) 45:48 (1) 2. Lois Watts Man. 115:15 63:34 (2) 51:41 (2) 3. Renate Dorschner B.C. 185:49 83:56 (3) 101:53 (3)

14 H43 TOTAL DAY 1 DAY 2 1. Kaljo Mandre-Manno Alta 126:02 61:42 (1) 64:20 (2) . 2. Leif Lundgaard Man 133:04 72:53 (2) 60:11 (1) YELLOW H13-14 1. Keith Forsyth Man. 53:19 28:01 (1) 25:15 (3) 2. Steve Phillips Man. 54:22 30:49 (3) 23:33 (2) 3. Brian Fleck Alta 59:57 37:59 (4) 21:58 (1) D13-16 1. Gina Lane Alta. 68:12 39:52 (1) 28:20 (1) 2. Linda Hague B.0 81:10 50:41 (2) 30:29 (2) WHITE D12 1. Rhonda Agnew Man. 59:43 42:00 (1) 17:43 (1) 2. Terri Tatchell B C 61:22 42:05 (2) 19:17 (2) 3. Sheri Archibald Alta. 83:35 53:23 (3) 30:12 (4) COMBINED STANDINGS 1. Alta. 22 * top provincial standing 2. B C 26 3 Man. 65 Thus Alberta won the Dome Petroleum Provincial Shield for 1980.

ANSWER TO MAP SIMPLIFICATION (from page 11)

15 New Zealand Notes

The following article by New ORIENTEERING-NEW ZEALAND STYLE Zealand National 0. Team member, Greg Whitecliffe is in reply to a This time of year (Jan. 23) is the request from 0. Canada editor and height of our summer and most provides an insight to orienteer- people take their vacation in this in the Southern Hemisphere. period (the temp. today is 32 C.) The holiday period coupled with he heat means that no real serious competitions or major 0. events occur until late Feb. or early Mar. During the remainder of the year there are events held almost every Sunday all over the country. Major events, such as Badge meets, are held quite frequently (usually about every month). Most New Zealand orienteers are devotees of Badge events and make great efforts to attend these meets.

New Zealand forests fall into two main types: 1. Jungle forests- complete with wild boar, kiwis, possums, deer, etc. 2. Exotic forests-about 42% of our forests are of the exotic variety and all of the orienteering events are held in this type of forest. Basically these are mature pine forests and are ideal for orienteer- ing: the pine needles mean little vegetation undergrowth apart from GREG WHITECLIFFE-World Champion- some ground fern and bracken ships Relay, Scotland 1976. (similar to the 1976 WOC.)

16 The forests are all intersected in Europe-mainly because I'm silly with trails and roads from forestry enough to do so. workings and where the trees are larger there is undergrowth, but Numbersof participants at our events still quite negotiable. Most of are usually quite small with about the best mapped orienteering areas a maximum of 400 competitors at a are on the West Coast of Auckland, major event. All categories are in the coastal sand dunes and clay available at the meets with the hills. The elevation doesn't go H35A class being the most competi- above 2000 ft. but can vary as much tive, probably because of all the as 600-800 ft in a race through die-hard founders of NZ orienteering interesting gullies and valleys. who compete in this class--people New Zealand being relatively young like John Robinson, Gordon Pirie, in Geological strata means that Don Rolfe, Barry Shuker, etc. where the soil is exposed the eros- ion is tremendous and scree slopes The Elite categories suffer from and clay banks are common. Apart the lack of sustained experienced from that there are the normal athletes; people like me, converted problems common to every country in track athletes, are a rarity, and the world - rabbit holes, stinging appear to come and go with varying nettles, hornets, animal droppings, degrees of form. In the Annual etc. along with the frequent mis- Auusie Kiwi clash we hold our own, placed control marker that is the which is an indication our maps and delight of every orienteer. race performances aren't too bad.

From a census taken, there are about Taking all things into consideration, 3000 orienteers (maximum) in NZ I feel we can attain some level of with about 1500 of that number performance above average. The actually affiliated members of clubs main thing we lack is international and the NZOF. I am not 100% certain competition experience and maps; of these figures as I have spent both in quality and quantity. The most of the last three years in latest cartography from Sweden is Europe and North America. As far as improving things considerably (not funding and sponsorship is concerned before time) but there are still we finance ourselves entirely and precious few of us that can compete you have already heard my moans .on on European maps. Our maps relate this matter. I know that I have about 90% to the ground terrain, spent about $12,000 in the last which really leaves a bit too three years financing myself to much in the hands of the gods. Orienteering; consequently, I'm virtually the only NZ orienteer that Courses in Elite classes are far too you are likely to see at O. events short; the longest I have run in NZ

17 was 12.4 km but the average course However, it is a bloody good sport length for this class is 8 km. In and lots of fun, so worth the effort. a nutshell, it is hard work to get Good orienteering, orienteering established and spread as a sport but I am sure that it is the same problem and hard work in Greg Whitecliffe all other new 0. countries also.

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18 1980 B.C. Mountain Marathon

Such a feverish pitch of expecta- too, and he quickly led us up to the tion surrounded this year's Moun- open range to number one, 25 of us tain Marathon at the Lighthouse in various stages of mobility: Park relay event, that the "org- crawling, running or groaning under anization" began to get the our weekend supplies looking anxi- collywobbles. But the weather ously back over our shoulders at turned out to be no excuse for our nearest rivals. The hardier cancelling the event. The second masochists set their compasses due standby excuse lay with the trans- north for 3 X 4 kilometre legs, portless organizer, bored with the then east to a common control with prospect of another Friday night their more sensible, short cutting in Kamloops and subsequent Saturday brethren. a.m. porridge in the Commodore Cafe - a combination that ultim- At a 5 p.m. dusk most of us were in ately gave birth to the 48 and 32 from day 01 replenishing our km courses. dehydrated bodies, pulled on what- ever extra clothing we permitted However, above conditions except- ourselves, erected the smallest ing, the third Mountain Marathon flimsiest tents we could find got off the ground; the third year prior to the race, and commiserated that such an event has been run out over sore feet and 1" heel monsters. of the back, or rather front of Tents are tested by a two hour a V.W. When Len and Bob both pay shower that relents after supper as to fly in from Edmonton, John and our compere introduced the latest Barry drive the same distance and converts. A bottle of Screech is the remaining hard core drive in smuggled in and the agreeable from other points around B.C., concoction slides down our gullets. one really cannot expect them to just turn around and come back A rancher appears, wondering how 25 next year. campers fit into the V.W. then adds an extra condition to the following The Batchelor Hills are impres - day's course: he's rounding up sive...from a distance. Camping cattle: in Kamloops' unofficial garbage dump is not so pleasant. Fortu- "We'll be gone by daylight" replies nately, the oraanizer had an our organizer, "well that's when aversion to all-terrain-vehicles we're moving them out."

19 "How many?" Mountain Madness "About 400." Tony the organizer warned me to pack "Where to?" a map appears. ultra light. "Through here...Long Lake." But you know me - I'll put up a good fight. "That's through our short course." I'll not go hungry, and certainly ".lust wanted to warn you." not cold, I'll take as much as my packsack Day 01 masochists have visions of will hold! the reincarnation of Yrpes. It's In went the wool pants, sweaters, soon forgotten as the Screech makes jacket, and a good warm hat, it's last round and we crawl into Smoked oysters, ham, oranges, apples- I was grinning like a Cheshire our bags for the earliest night in Cat... a while. I envisioned them all shivering in the Kamloops snow, While I would be fat and happy at Six A.M.: the frost is shaken 30 below: from tents as inhabitants munch on various energy products designed Next day was sunny when we started out, to get them through their respect- But there was snow in the air; I had ive courses as efficiently as no doubt, possible. Both courses double At checkpoint one I was mighty "chaue back on themselves, confusing By 1:30 I just wanted to dump my load. At 4 O'clock my brain and feet went participants and heating up numb, competition on the long course. But along came a pick-up and up went The leaders scurry along ditches my thumb! to escape the notice of their near- We got into camp and quickly threw up est rivals, deliberating over our tent detours or direct uphill approaches Was as hungry as a bear but in all the food hardly put a dent! to their next control. Most are The Sandman called at seven, but no back to their vehicles by 2 p.m. way would I go to bed, greeted by our harried organizer I was determined to use all those who vows that this is to be an clothes, just like I said. So on went the wool pants, undershirt, annual event. sweater, scarf, mitts, jacket and cagoule, Joined the folks at the fire, and Afan Jones sweltered like a fool!

Sunday I squeezed my blistered feet back into my boots, And repacked the uneaten tuna, nuts, cheese and fruits. As we staggered to the end I mumbled to my hiking cronie, "It was a lot of good fun, but why didn't we listen to Tony?"

Gillian Foster

20 OFFICIAL RESULTS - B.C. MOUNTAIN MARATHON Long Course Home Turf Day 01 Day 02 Total 25 km 23 km 1000 m 550 m

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Colin Preston/ 7:55 6:10 14:02 Alan Barry Greg Tatchell/ Pr. George 8:00 9:20 17:20 Ken Pontifex John Collings/ Vancouver DNF 7:25 Peter Haigh

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f-A-7 L C.O.F. Photo & Slogan Contest

PHOTOGRAPH OF THE YEAR CONTEST The competition is open to all orienteers. Prizes will be awarded to the three photos judged best. Winning pictures will be printed in the December issue of Orienteering Canada with the top-rated one appearing on the front cover. COMPETITION RULES 1. Only black and white photographs may be submitted, with a maximum of five photos per person. Photos must have a title plus the photographer's name and address on the reverse side. Photos must be of good enough technical quality to permit reproduction in Orienteering Canada. 2. Photographs will be judged on their "action" merit but with emphasis on originality and excitement. 3. The competition will be judged by members of the COF Development Committee and the editor of Orienteering Canada. Winners will be announced at the C.O.F. Annual Meeting, November 21, 1981. 4. Photographs submitted will not be returned but will be retained for use in future issues of Orienteering Canada at the editor's discretion. 5 Closing date for entries is Oct. 30, 1981. Photos should be sent to the C.0 F. National Office, 333 River Rd., Vanier, Ontario K1L 8B9 ORIENTEERING "SLOGAN" CONTEST C.O.F. is searching for a new slogan that can be used on T-shirts, bumper stickers, posters, etc. and is enlisting the efforts of all members through a 'slogan' contest. Slogans submitted will be judged upon originality, impact, and humour. The word, "orienteering", does not have to appear in the slogan; however, it should be easy to identify the slogan with orienteering. Slogans currently in use will not be considered by the judges.

Prizes will be awarded for the best entries. Winning slogan will be announced at the C.0 C. awards presentation, August 16, 1981. Deadline for entries: July 31, 1981. Send your slogan to C.O.F. National Office, 333 River Road, Vanier, Ontario K1L 8B9

25 Orienteering Development in Canada (The Challenge Ahead)

Our sport has now been established optimism one need only ask a few in the country since the late 1960's basic questions to ascertain a reali- and we can enthusiastically claim stic picture of the national devel- a truly national distribution of opment of orienteering. What is orienteering activity. From begin- the rate of COF membership growth, nings in Ont. and Que., the sport and how does the roster size compare was introduced to the Maritimes, with five years ago? What is the and then British Columbia and Man- membership turn-over rate? Have itoba in the early and mid-seventies. the smaller provinces grown in the A Sask. and Alberta association last two years? What sort of broad were welcome additions to the group base have we established, a base during the same period, but it was which would develop leaders and not until the late 1970's that aspiring young athletes? Has Alberta orienteering was revital- orienteering been firmly established ized and flourishing to compete nationally or is it limited to with B.C. and for the perhaps a dozen active centres? third largest provincial member- What attendance can we expect at ship. The Newfoundland association, major events, and how does it compare although relatively small in numbers with five years ago? hosted the 1979 Canadian Champion- ships and proved that Eastern There is no need to list volumes of orienteering was here to stay. statistics, but it is clear that the And finally, flickers of interest COF membership has stabilized at from the and North West around 1,500 for the past few years. Territories resulted in a number Membership turn-over in many prov- of northern maps and clinics with inces is around 30-40% per year, small pockets of community orient- while the size of the "second level" eering initiated in , provinces has reached a plateau of Yellowknife, Inuvik, and Fort Smith. 150-200 members. It seems that leadership growth has been slow, The impression is surely one of a and the hoped for broad base has young and dynamic organization never really materialized-we largely growing quickly and offering a depend on the same leaders, and out- challenging alternative sport to standing athletes are more a product active people throughout the coun- of individual talent and determina- try Yet, in spite of this tion than a well organized base

26 governments and more importantly, membership recruitment, club develop- the orienteering membership. ment and membership retention. More on this important aspect in later In addition to the primary goals issues of Orienteering Canada. of recruitment, club development, and membership retention, the 4. A well conceived and distributed committee is responsible for reg- promotional compaign complete with ional and national leadership brochures, posters, and improved develoment. The real work must media relations. obviously be done at the club and provincial level, but the national 5. A National club award presented body can offer guidance and hope- to the club showing the greatest fully funding to realize these achievement in growth, club programs, objectives. or other criteria. This could be presented as an annual trophy at the At the first Development Committee Canadian Championships. meeting literally hundreds of ideas were sorted and linked to over-all 6. Special incentive projects in national goals. The evolution of under developed regions to foster these ideas into programs and then map and club development. These visible results will naturally projects could take on a variety of take time but a few of the more forms that would inject money and important project suggestions expertise into a region in return include: for club or association development.

1. Annual regional leadership 7. Provide improved motiviation for development clinics similar to the members to remain in COF by provid- recent highly successful Western ing a higher visibility to programs Leadership Clinics at Blue Lake, such as the Junior Badge awards,T- Alberta. Two clinics are planned shirts for membership recruitment for 1981, one in the eastern pro- plan, and fostering a true sense of vinces and one in Ontario. "belonging". Intermediate level technique training should be provided 2. An investigation of the "target for the vast number of non-elite population" in Canada to determine orienteers. where our promotional efforts should be directed. A market Furture Orienteering Canada issues analysis will help clarify our will outline in more detail what objectives. each of us can do to improve the national growth and development of 3. Identification and communica- orienteering. Strength in numbers tion of the best methods for means not only increased opportunities

28 feeding pinnacle. The Saskatchewan recognize that the questions posed Association is apparently inactive here are not new. Yet the facts and organized orienteering in the are indicative, and it is time to Territories has not progressed to carefully evaluate what past devel- any extent. But more importantly, opment efforts have achieved, and outside of typical major centres what the challenges are in the near such as , Hamilton, Ottawa, future. Halifax, , Calgary, or Vancouver, what is the real depth For several years the COF has given of orienteering in Canada? If one a mandate to the Promotion and or two key people in Hartney, Man. Education committees to deal with were to leave, what would be left a variety of issues and programs of orienteering in the southwest relating to development. There portion of the province? The number have been uneven results although of healthy community clubs depends progress has certainly been made on leadership and club programs to with such things as the badge pro- motivate members-how many orient- gram, and instructors manuals. eering clubs in Canada are stable Perhaps the greatest problem has and viable entities growing with been the lack of clear direction in the sport and responding to member's the national development of orient- needs? To complete the scenario, eering in the "grass-roots" sense. we must accept the fact that our For at least two or three years a largest Canadian orienteering primary objective of the COF has events (excluding the international been membership recruitment, yet 5 and 6 day meets) were in the mid- very little in the way of concrete seventies when 500 participants were programs are evident. In response commonplace, and the largest B meet to this obvious problem, the 1980 in Southern Ontario attracted over Planning Conference recommended the 600. Although size is certainly establishment of a Development not synonomous with quality, a Committee to look solely at growth declining or at best stable parti- and development of orienteering cipation rate reflects limited through membership recruitment, membership growth, and only the club development, and membership recently developed provinces have retention. The committee was est- experienced a slow increase in ablished at the 1980 Annual General event registration. Meeting in Winnipeg and held its first meeting in March of this year. What does all this information mean? The challenge of development is Surely we have made an honest effort large but not insurmountable pro- towards development, and most vided clear and concise programs experienced orienteers will are adopted and funded by supportive

27 milmunpqm7WIRMINEEr "---

(Jr. Part. Program-can't P. 15) GREEN: (15 events total) Brian Fleck - Calgary, Alta. for financial support, but more and Chris Heron - Fredericton, N.B. and better events with less work Philip Hunter - Nepean, Ont. for the few hard-pressed dedicated Edward James -Halifax, N.S. leaders holding the threads to- Pamela James - Halifax, N,S. gether today. A broad membership Dominique MacConaill-Hull, Que. and club base will provide a better Oivind Naess- Dartmouth, N.S. chance for the majority of "inter- Karl Paisley - Stanley, N.B. mediate' orienteers to enjoy their Clark Spiece - Vineland, Ont. chosen sport, as well as allow the Competition Committee to identify ORANGE: (10 events total) and encourage the talented youths John Crowley - Vancouver, B.C. with national and world level Susan Davis - Hartney, Manitoba orienteering potential. The Devel- Cynthia Dorschell - Oakville, Ont. opement Committee is certainly not Tina Evans - Beamsville, Ont. able to solve all the national Chris Harding - Winnipeg, Man. orienteering development problems; Linda Hauge - Prince George, B.C. however, by having a clearly Jonathon Kirk - Brossard, Que. defined responsibility and a chance Chris Loly - Winnipeg, Man. to cooperate with other committees Niall MacConaill - Hull, Que. and the provinces, real progress Colin Mark - Willowdale, Ont. can be made. Jamie McGillivray - Willowdale, Ont. Maria Paisley - Stanley, N.B. Jun Peepre Simon Parker - Langley, B.C. Sean Semple - Enfield, N.S. Development Committee Chairman Brad Sokol - Willowdale, Ont. Eric Kaill - Dartmouth, N.S. Committee Members: YELLOW: (5 events) Henry Lam (Ontario) Rhonda Agnew - Hartney, Man. Jim Blanchard (Nova Scotia) Grant Basiuk - Hartney, Man. Mall Peepre (Ontario Glenn Campbell - Vancouver, B.C. Jack Forsyth (Manitoba. Lesley Fellows - Fredericton, N.B. Michael Fellows, - Fredericton, N.B. Keith Forsyth - Hartney, Man. Kristin Forsyth - Hartney, Man. Sarah Gaunt - Winnipeg, Man. Stephen Gaunt - Winnipeg, Man.

Ed Houck - Hartney, Man. Michael Houlden - Winnipeg, Man. (continued p. 36)

29 Western Canada Technique Training Clinic

Blue Lake, Alberta Who should Apply: Everyone with July 1-4, 1981 at least one or two years competi- tive orienteering experience is All western orienteers are invited welcome. Veterans are also welcome to attend this four-day technique to participate and will have the training clinic to be held at Blue opportunity to fine tune their skills. Lake near the Rocky Mountains of Juniors, 14 and up are invited, but Alberta. only a limited number of 10 will be accepted. Top level instructors including national team member, Ted de St. The clinic is not intended for "elite" Croix, and four full days of acti- orienteers only, but participants vity with training sessions, should be interested in improving relays, and night events will their competitive skills. highlight the clinic. Training sessions will be conducted Course Content: technique in small groups according to physical training (at least 3 sessions per and technical ability. day); map reading exercises; course-setting; training methods. For Information, write Course Organisers: Instructors: Ted de St. Croix, national team member, will be Juri Peepre guest instructor, and all parti- #15-1600 W 6th Ave. cipants will have the benefit of Vancouver, B.C. working with Ted in the terrain. V6J 1R3 Five other top instructors from (604) 31-7918 Western Canada will lead practical training sessions, George Murphy 9216-168 St. The Maps: Two new maps have been Edmonton, Alberta completed providing unlimited T5R 2V9 training terrain. (403) 489-5077

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32 Orientac'ion en Mexico

A full time map maker leads a crazy Two days later, I returned to Mexico cowboy life, travelling from place City feeling a little better. Per to place, living out of a backpack, Sandberg of Sweden and I had just sleeping in any place availableand finished our 2nd black and white map eating some of the strangest foods in hopes of getting Orienteering imaginable. All of this can be firmly placed in the land of con- very stressful and occasionally quistadores, cactus, volcanoes and the body reacts with a vengeance. 67 million Spanish speaking Mexicans. This project was arranged by P.O. This happened to me while working Benotsson of the IOF. in Mexico this past winter when I succumbed to altitude sickness Orienteering in Mexico began when (3,000 m) , hot mole (peppers), the University of Mexico Mountain- poison zapote (unripe fruit), sun- eering school selected a team to burn (dry season),cold accommoda- travel to the Swedish 5-days and tions and one snowstorm. World Student Championships in Fin- land in 1978. The infection took over my body while I was sleeping in our They used a blown up Government Alburgue Alpino Refuge located 900 topographical map in a scale of meters below a volcano and 800 1:20 000 and a score event as meters above Mexico City. My their selection meet. Needless to breathing was forced and my heart- say, they found the orienteering rate wasa cool 110 B P.M. resting! in Scandinavia too difficult. Hugo Delgado was awarded a prize for I had been in Mexico 2 weeks and being the strongest because he spent still hadn't acclimatized. It was 5 hours in the forest (most of time to move down to a lower which was looking for his control elevation card)..

Eduardo, a Mexican mapping trainee Two years later he was one of two and rock climbing instructor, saw men to reach the peak of Kanchenj- to that and took us down at a more unga, a Himalayan mountain of 8,240 m. hospitable elevation,Oaxtepec, a Two men died in this 5 month expedi- holiday resort. tion to Nepal.

33 Hugo and his mountain friends We returned to the city for our treated us well while we gave them 2nd competition held in Bosque de an orienteering clinic and two small Chapultapec using a coloured map competitions. About 65 people from prepared by 2 Scandinavians on a the mountaineering group came to World Orienteering tour. the competition and expressed tremendous spirit and enthusiasm. The fastest time was 19 minutes over 3.7 kms and good improvement over They devoured our material, search- the first competition held on the ing out addresses and wanting to university grounds. buy our books and compasses. We soon had had enough of the smog We went up to about 3,000 m to and 141 million people of the find a forested area outside of "great" city and took a bus six hours Mexico City with a blown up west to Morelia, capital of the 1:50 000 topographical map as our district of Michoacan. The next base. The first day there, I afternoon, we met with the president injured my knee when Per and I ran of the Sports Federations-after from the map area 8 kms uphill and having to wait several hours. We over lava beds to our mountain hut. soon found out that waiting is a Per developed two sore achilles necessary part of Mexican culture. tendons but kept training. The only thing we didn't have to wait for was someone trying to sell us The forest is pine and very mature. something. It is guarded from firewood rustlers by rifle slinging guards. It took four days to obtain a base Much of the terrain around Mexico map in 1:20 000 from the bureaucratic City is rocky volcanic lava. It forestry department. There were people hosts a dense tangle of bushes, to meet, letters to write and forms vines, weeds and small black to sign. The map we ended up with lizards. Above the 2,500 m level, turned out to be useless for our one finds beautiful forests kept purposes because it only contained clean by farmers, selected forestry forest type information. No contours cuttings, goats, sheep and cows. roads or buildings and only general Grass grows amongst the trees and river bed design. We tried another even wheat, corn and oats--mostly map office and in five minutes sewn by donkey and wooden plow. received terrible Xerox copies of a topo map 1:50 000 with 20 m contours. To the south of Mexico valley is We were forced to draw the map found cactus ranches and dense without base material. bushy terrain.

34 The area we mapped was known as We managed to get them started in "Km 23." (It was 25 kms from the pairs and waited anxiously for city centre!) Km 23 is a national someone to finish. Most were too park with beautiful, tall deciduous young to understand the sport and trees, horseback-riding trails, so we received amazing combinations streams and a few grass picnic of control punch codes. Our shelters. We finished our little Finish area or "meta" was further map the morning before the compe- confused by seven horsemen trying tition and had 100 free copies to sell horseback rides to the kid printed by the local sports insti- tute. We were told one busload of The next day Per and I finished 50 people would be sent to our field work on the University City competition. Two busloads and map in Morelia; an interesting three cars arrived which exhausted clump of white buildings defaced our map supply. There were between with communist slogans and graf- 110 - 120 kids ranging in ages 4-14. fiti. During our week in Morelia What a day: a group of militant high school

1:10,000 10 meter contours Mexican Championship Map

DIRECCION GENERAL DE ACTIVIDADES DEPORTIVAS Y RECREATIVAS UNAM.

35 students took over Morelia's quite common. oldest high school in an attempt to persuade the school authorities We planned to leave Morelia at 2:40 to give the students some labora- a.m. on a direct bus down to Playa tories. They wanted to use a Azul on the Pacific side, but we building presently occupied by slept through that one and caught poorer students as a housing pro- an 8:40 a.m. local bus which took ject. One evening the poor 9 hours to go some 360 kms. We students confronted the militants spent a week running on the beach and a street battle not unlike a (great training) and generally riot took place. Right in front being ugly tourists or "gringos". of our hotel: Rocks, sticks, We journeyed back up to Mexico City bottles and a few molotov cocktails for the Mexican O. Championships, were thrown and they almost set fire March 7-8, on our new map and flew to the school and a hotel across the to San diego later on the 8th. street! There were no police seen anywhere except one female constable trying to re-direct traffic. After a few days, the students stopped Ted de St.Croix coming to school in the morning while the occupation continued. The school hours are 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Mexican siesta custom is still

JUNIOR PARTICIPATION PROGRAM (continued from page 29)

YELLOW: (continued 5 events) Susan Loly - Winnipeg, Man. If any Junior members have cards Eugene Mlynczyk- Mississauga, Ont. with events recorded which entitles Don Phillips - Hartney, Man. them to their next level, please Rick Phillips - Hartney, Man. forward the card to the National Steven Phillips - Hartney, Man. Office - we will send the next Mark Semple - Enfield, N.S. badge and update our records. Caroline Soldaat-Caistor Centre, Ont.

36 Orienteering Ole?

Typical Lava Terrain in Mexico

37 C.O.F. Drops

1. People on the Move It was ex-Toronto O.C. member, Dave Bill Cowley, Course Planner and Ellison, now living in the U.K. and Mapper of the 1980 Canadian O. a member of the South Ribble 0.C. Championships, has recently moved from Montreal to Ottawa. With 3. Snake Prankster gets Bitten in several other ex M.O.C.'ers Australian 6-Day Event (Gloria Rankin, Bill Anderson and Colin Kirk ) now living in the A report on the 1981 Australian 6- Ottawa area, perhaps they will form Day event appeared in the 1981/1 a chapter of the Montreal O. Club issue of Compass Sport. Highlight in Ottawa . of each of the 6 day's events are included in the report. One of the Ron and Marion Green have also highlights of Day 1 was that one recently moved again, this time competitor placed very real-like to Vancouver. Ron is an ex- plastic snakes and spiders on Gator, ex Montreal O. C., ex Ottawa control markers. Some late starters 0,C. member_ Other old Guelph finding these "serpents" at the "gators", Juri Peepre, and Jim controls lost time and were upset. Turnbull now also live in Vancouver. Protests were lodged against the Ron, Juri and Jim used to represent culprit and upheld by the jury - so Guelph as a relay team back in the the only casualty was the offender early '70s. 4. DND Flights for Four Juniors to 2. Identity of Unnamed ex-Canadian Jan Kjellstrom Event Orienteer now Known C 0 F was granted DND flights for In the Orienteering Canada, Vol 8 four of our young orienteers to No. 4 mention was made in "C.O.F. travel to England to compete in the Drops" page 8, of a letter by an 1981 Jan Kjellstrom event. The event unnamed Canadian orienteer that was held over the Easter weekend, had been prirted in the British April 18-20. The four Juniors O. magazine Compass Sport_ .1-he selected were: Tina Evans and John following issue of Compds• snort Downing (Ontario); Magali Robert Vol 1981/1 apologises for not (); and Russell Kilbourn having identified the letter writer. (Alberta)

38 Susan Budge, on her way to Switzer- 6. Nova Scotia Orienteering land for a 3-month working/training Development Coordinator Resigns summer, also competed in the Jan Kjellstrom event. The JK now Don Longard, part time Development attracts over 3000 competitors Coordinator, resigned his position each year and is a top-rated as of March 31 and 0.A.N.S. is now International Competition. in the process of hiring a replace- ment. The position is of a half-day/ 5. Canadians to Compete in half-pay variety. Don was hired one International Junior Events in year ago to replace the first 0.A M.S. Norway Development Coordinator, Bob Kaill.

The Norwegian 0 Federation are 7. Sport Fed. Congress organizing a Junior International competition July 1-4 of this year C.O.F. President, Pat de St. Croix and The event will consist of an Past President, Marg James, attended Individual and a Relay event. the Sport Federation of Canada Congress C.0 F. will send either 3 - 4 in Ottawa, April 9-11. Keynote Junior men plus one girl, Susan speakers included top athletes, Ken Budge, to represent Canada in the Read and Diane Jones-Konihowski event. The event is for Juniors and ex minister of , 20 years of age and under and Iona Campagnolo. A report on the some very top-rated Juniors will Congress will be included in the represent their country. next issue of O. Canada.

The Canadian team will be selected Marg James was elected to the Board from the results of a 2-Day of Directors of the Sport Federation , competition, May 23-24 organized Marg has attended the S.F.C. Congress by the Viking Ski Club at St. for the past several years and is Bruno, Quebec looking forward to working on the Board. Congratulations Mara! The annual Norwegian 6-Day event, the Sorlandsgallopen takes place immediately following the Junior Cohn Kirk event (July 5-12), so our team will also be able to compete in this prestigious 6-Day competition.

39 President's Niche

Supper at the Canvas Company with the authorship of Jack Lee and Jim Anne Anthony following a Whistler Gilchrist, this was re-written and holiday brought back memories of it is hoped it may be published as the AGM in 1978 in Vancouver. edited by Sylvia Gilchrist. The Anne was very enthusiastic about instructors' manual, while not the championships comma up in meeting the specifications of the August. She, too, claims it is an Coaching Association, hopefully will excellent area. B.C. is attempt- meet the needs of provincial associ- ing to run clinics in strategic ations which requested such material areas in the hopes of developing at the Annual General Meeting. growth and interest in conjunction Thank you Jack and Jim and Sylvia with the Canadian Orienteering for many long hours invested in yet Championships. Good Luck B.C. another '0' endeavour.

Charlie Fox, Chairman of the Colin Kirk our Executive Director Planning Committee, has a very had a very busy winter of orienteer- big portfolio and he will do the ing. In February, Sport Canada kind of job we need to give dir- announced their second financial ection to our Board and membership. contribution cut back to non-Olympic He will be chairing an important sports. If Colin wasn't a "pro" meeting in June when the committee before, he must be one now in writing chairmen gather to coordinate the interesting budget briefs which must various plans into a whole package. be detailed, exact and sometimes lengthy. He has had to submit two Level I Coaching Certification briefs for each and every project. manual, a very important priority By cutting back a little here and not only for COF programs but also changing a little here and there, for Provincial Associations, is Colin has managed to retain the main now underway. When writing this, program approved at the A.G.M. Thank a meeting of the Level I committee you Colin. and our consultant in the Coaching Association, Nancy Wood, was taking It takes a lot of work to make a taking place in Ottawa on the worthwhile contribution to orient- manual's content. The original eering." These are the words of COF ad hoc committee produced a one COF volunteer. He was refer- fine instructors' manual. Under ring to the nap makers, meet

40 directors, board and committee of Orienteering Canada. Gord is members, with whom he had worked now a Board member, committee the whole previous Saturday. The chairman, our elected represent- speaker was thinking of three men ative on the International who do all of this and more. Orienteering Federation, map maker, meet director, and very competent The statement refers to most of orienteer. A special thank you, our busy volunteers, from those Gord, for setting such a high who produce ideas and put them standard and excellent model for us into practice, to those who carry to follow. on the operation of the organiza- tion. It is a person like Gord Patricia de St.Croix Hunter, who had done such a com- President mendable job as the former editor

Orienteering New Brunswick Report 1979-80

Orienteering was adopted as part of Club membership has not shown any the curriculum in all Grade Eleven such startling increase: last Physical Education Courses this year we had a big membership drive, year, so we had a great surge of but not all those who joined conti- interest from high school teachers. nued their interest. New Brunswick Tim Andrew and Gary Feeney conduc- shares the problem, identified by ted a two-day clinic for them which C.O.F. as a national concern, that was a great success. The Moncton membership turn over is high. The area held its own High School executive of the Bathurst club all Orienteering Competition and Fred- left the district except for the ericton High School has had several President! meets, if the other high schools Fredericton gained a map at Macta- have been equally active, there quac Park and lost a map at Woola- must be thousands of students now stook Park. A fire burnt down a involved in orienteering in New considerable portion of the Brunswick.

41 Woolastook area and roads are being no club activities. An introductory cut in the front area. Local meet and clinic was held in Moncton rumour has it that an Upper and a tentative executive and mapping Canadian Orienteer was seen there programme organized for a club in with a box of matches, a bull dozer that city. and a long memory. Unfortunately, there are bush areas in Mactaquac As usual New Brunswick orienteers that rival Woolastook, but at went to the Canadian Championships least the trails are clear and in in large numbers. As usual we constant use. A TRIM course is enjoyed ourselves very much, some also ready for use in Odell Park. of us even enjoyed the courses. Lyman Jones, who drove several of Saint John had three or four suc- the younger orienteers to Lachute, cessful meets and the Provincial has a suggestion for improving the Championships were held there. standard of performance among this Nova Scotians heard that the area age group; all controls should be was good for detailed map reading marked with a large golden 'M'. and flocked to Saint John in bus Even without this aid the nineteen loads. It was a pleasure to have 12 year olds won five medals, which their company and their competition was a good performance. certainly raised the standard of the meet. (This is a round about Official certification continues way of saying that they won far slowly. Tim Andrew should be a more medals than we consider Level V now he has been controller reasonable, but we were still glad of the Provincial Championships and to have them there!) Gary Feeney is Level III and on his way up. Others are at the I or II Grand Falls produced two new maps. Level with several close to III. Julien Marceau and Ron Levesque A strange reluctance to fill in had a Canada Works grant in the forms is delaying the process. summer and mapped a large area in that region. Julien went to the C.O.F. Mapping Workshop, so the Sheila Andrew map should be of good quality. We are saving it for a Provincial or Atlantic Championship in 1981.

In case anyone is concerned about the Bathurst president running around the woods by herself, school meets were held there, but

42 C.O.F. Addresses

BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT Patricia de St. Croix, Box 316 Vineland, Ont. LOR 2C0 VICE PRESIDENT : Charlie Fox, 1225-235th St. RR9 Langley, B.C. V3A 6H5 VICE PRESIDENT : Gord Hunter, 8 Foxmeadow Lane, Nepean, Ont. K2G 3W2 SECRETARY Keith French, RR #1, Hannon, Ont. LOR 1P0 TREASURER Freda de la Fosse, Dagenais Boul. Fabreville Que. MEMBER AT LARGE: George Murphy, 9216-168 St. Edmonton, Alta. T5R 2V9

COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN TECHNICAL Earle Phillips, 52 Price Ave., Hamilton, Ont. L9C 1K3 MAPPING Malcolm Adams, 699 Cardinal St., St. Hilaire, Que. COMPETITION : Gord Hunter, 8 Foxmeadow Lane, Nepean, Ont. K2G 3W2 DEVELOPMENT : Juri Peepre, #2-2545 West 3rd Ave,, Vancouver V6K 1M2 EDUCATION George Murphy, 9216-168 St. Edmonton, Alta. T5R 2V9 FINANCE Don Budge, RR #1 Terra Cotta, Ont. LOP 1NO

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