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IF UNDELIVERED Return to 333 River Rd Venter. Ont . KIL 889 FIRST CLASS MAIL ORIENTEERING CANADA Vol. 9 No. 1 ITEMS AVAILABLE FROM C.O.F. NATIONAL OFFICE 1. C.O.F. T -Shirts Colour: Medium Blue with new C.O.F. logo in white. Sizes: Long Sleeved Small and Medium $6.00 Short Sleeved Small and Medium $5.00* * plus postage of .40c 3rd class, .75C 1st class/shirt. 2. Map Symbol Letraset (Official I0F) (one sheet is sufficient for 3 - 4 maps). Per sheet 57.50 . Modern Orienteering Training: The most comprehensive book on Orienteering Training and Techniques available in the English language. $10.00 * plus .50e postage Procedures for Organizing Major Orienteering Events *(plus .50c postage and handling.) . World Class Orienteering See advertisement in this issue. Special reduced price. (* plus .50c postage) . C.O.F. Rulebook * (plus .25C handling and postage) $ 1.50 . I.O.F. Symbolic Control Description Book * (plus .25c handling and postage) $ 2.00 8. Control Cards and Result Cards: made from heavy duty water repellent paper stock. Available in five colours- Blue - Red - Green - Orange - Black (Per unit of 100) $ 2.00 9. I.O.F. Map Drawing Specification Book $ 3.00 10. Whistles: available in bulk - provincial associations Orienteering Canada The Official Newsletter of the Canadian alp Orienteering Federation 333 River Road Vanier, Ont. 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 New Brunswick-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, Ontario 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 British Columbia 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 , Alberta, and Manitoba get 4 r 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 Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver Championships (August 15-16, from all parts of Canada and from Kamloops). 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.