New Series of Worksheets for the instruction of beginners: che IRISh oracncccc LEARN ORIENTEERING No. 57 March - April.1992 £1.00 The worksheets are in 6 colors, and feature detailed terrain sketches, color photos and many simple, instructive exercises: Worksheet 1: The most Important map Worksheet 6: Safe features-the thumb grip symbols Worksheet 7: Directional understanding Worksheet 2: Air photos - map symbols Worksheet 8: Contour lines Worksheet 3: Control features Worksheet 9: String Orienteering Worksheet 4: Aligning the map with the Worksheet 10: Route choices terrain Worksheet 11: More route choices Worksheet 5: Handrails Worksheet 12: Draw your own map - Beautifully detailed color terrain - Text and exercises are developed in sketches. cooperation with experienced - Color Terrain Photos for comparing orienteering instructors. map and terrain. - Recommendations for additional - Map examples using easily readable. exercises are Included in the answer - Exercises from many different terrain book and instructor's guide. categories. And, when the new orienteers wanlto learn more about Advanced Orienteering Techniques we recommend the 16 worksheets in the Series Advanced O-Technlque Training. Also, we remind you about the popular orienteering games, Orienteering Bingo and The Orienteering Course for beginners. These games are ideal for beginners instruction and club meetings, and help the players learn map symbols and orienteering basics. Many clubs have used The Orienteering Course as awards. THE ORIENTEERING GAME THE ORIENTEERING COURSE SIMILAR TO BINGO FOR BEGINNERS Consists of 32 different game boards with Game ot chance where the players meet 16 mapsectlons, callers sheet, detailed with the pleasures and the disappoint- directions tor use etc. ments of a beginner'S course. ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Detach this form and send your order, or telephone: lAtarn Orienteering _ Learn Orienteering @IR£4.90 Mr. Cut Bush _ Answerbook & Instructor's guide @IR£6.00 Bush Sport Overheads @IRE35.00 Curragh, Co. Kildare Advanced Q-Technlque Training Phone: 045-41625 _ Advanced 0-Technique Training @IRE4.90 Answerbook & instructor's Guide @IR£6.00 :..;N;;;;a~m:.::e _ Overheads @IRE35.00 Address Orienteering Games ------------------ _ 0-8ingo @IR£9.SO _ The O-Course for beginners @IRE29.95 40 The IrisJz Orienteer THE IRISH ORIENTEER NO.57 March - April 1992 ISSN 0790-1194 BUSH SPORT The Irish Orienteer is published Eire on a shoe string six times a year and is available CUT BUSH through all Irish orienteering CURRAGH 045-41625 clubs. All material concerning It may not be a popular thing to suggest, except to club orienteering will be gratefully treasurers, but is it possible that we are not paying enough SHOES FOR ORIENTEERING £ MARATHON EQUIPMENT £ received by the editor, John V.J Flash 49.95 Sleeping Bags from 650gr5. 120.00 McCullough, 9 Arran Road, for our orienteering? The sport has always been exceptional V.J Platinum 46.00 Tents from 170.00 Drumcondra, Dublin 9. value for money, with entry fees which neverreflected the V.J Spikes 58.95 Saunders Jstpackar 1.25kgs 220.00 SUBSCRIPTIONS: £6.5.0 per V.J Trainers 20.00 Bum Bags 15.00 real costs involved in terms of the time willingly given by annum (six issues). V.J Gaiters 12.50 Stoves, Epigas(Alpine) 19.95 enthusisatic volunteers. As orienteering developed the cost V.J Childrens 1,2,3.4, 16.50 Headlarnps 22.00 Contour Runner 29.95 The copy date for the forthcoming of map production, both financial and in effort and time, has issue is 20th April, expected increased dramatically. I publication date May 1Oth. COMPASSES CLOTHING Where once a photocopy of an Ordnance Survey map was For further information contact Sliva 21R • 35.00 Nylon a-Suits 18.50 sufficient, we nowadays expect five colour maps produced Sliva SR· the Irish Orienteering Associa- 39.95 Club Suits printed 19.95 from aerial photographs and drawn on computers, to inter- Sub 4 Tracksters 12.50 tion, c/o AFAS, House of Sport, Suunto Nor Thumb Compass Elite 12.50 Sub-4 Lycra legs 15.00 Long Mile Road, Dublin 12. (.01- national orienteering map specifications. The cost of pro- Suunto A2100/360 9.50 Running Shorts 12.50 5.01633156909924 hours). ducing a map is staggering, The useful life of most maps of Suunto A 1000/360 4.95 Running Singlets 8.50 Speedy 1 • 19.50 Waterproof Jackets (red) forested areas is only perhaps two to three years at which 9.50 Cover: Orla Cooke stretches her Speedy 3· 14.50 Skip Caps green 4.95 quads aided by Peter Kernan at stage we have to start again. Speedy 4· 19.50 Balaclava fleece black 9.95 the 1991 WOC in Czechoslava- RA69 N 12.50 Socks white 2.00 On the organisational front, the amount of time and effort MCA UD FOR A 1000 4.95 kia. (Photo: James Logve) required to run even a modest event is substantial. Few Sighting Compass 45.00 • with superfast needle CONTENTS sports can require as much organisation as orienteering: to Michael Hewson 4 organise a road race, you don't first have to build the road, LEARN ORIENTEERING EQUIPMENT TIO Trophy 6 learn Orienteering 4.95 Ankle Strapping Tape 3.60 to play football you don't have to build the stadium each O-News 8 Answerbook and lnstructor's guide 6.00 Control Cards per 100 2.50 Sunday, We do. Much of this effort goes on behind the IOC 92 11 Overheads 35.00 Control Cards waterproof 7.95 scenes and many participants aren't aware of it. ADVANCED TRAINING Control Marker Flags 2.95 Ski-O WOC 12 Advanced O-technique Training 4.95 Coded Punches per 10 19.50 Sponsorship 13 What does it cost us? Perhaps £2 for a day's outing. From Answersbo6k & Instructors guide 6.00 Sleeping Bag Fleece Uners 17.50 lOA AGM 14 this the lOA gets 20p, the map may cost 6Op, event Overheads Lowe Alaska Extreme Tent Outers 35.00 25.00 Student News 16 expenses may be SOpand the organising club may end up Mapmaking Harveys 15.95 Whistles Perry .65 Score Events 17 Drawing Specifications Control Card Cases 100 3.50 3.00 I'd rather be Orienteering 18 with SOpto print their next map and to run the sport. When Simple Maps 2.50 lOA Bulletin 2.0 prizes are required this adds perhaps £200 to the costs. LOWE ALPINE CLOTHING THERMAL UNDERWEAR Leinster News 21 Coillte are now charging as much as 50 p per head for Lowe Jaguar Jackets 45.00 Lowe Long Sleeved Top 14.95 Hill Running 22 permits to orienteer, a facility which we as citizens were Coati Reece Pants 35.00 Lowe Short Sleeved Top 12.95 Club News 23 Hats 8.50 Lowe Long Johns 15.95 Results Section 24 previously granted for nothing. Goretex Jackets 96.00 Helly Hansen US Tops Small 8.95 Orienteering Fixtures 38 It has been said that there are three kinds of orienteer: One Goretex pants 86.00 Helly Hansen Short sleeve small 5.00 MiiairCaps 13.50 Sleeping Bag Fleece 1/2 Season 19.95 who looks at the map and says "That's where I am", one who Why not write some- Specialists 69L+20 120.00 OPEN LEARNING PACKAGE HARVEYS says "That's where I'm going" and one who says "Where the Cerro Torre 2 thing for the next Irish 96.50 Video and Worksheets 85.00 hell am I?". Orienteering in Ireland has meandered in the Marathon Pack 29.95 Introductory Techniques 29.95 Orlenteer? Salient (for military use) wilderness for more than 20 years without a firm sense of 96.50 Slide Set basic Techniques 19.95 Printed by Denton Print, direction: we need to know where we're going. And we Dundrum, Dublin 14. (.01-988944) need the money [Q get there. John McCullough. 2 The Irish Or:ienleer The Irish Oriehleer 3 now, it has automatically been assumed that MUNSTER CHAMPS 1992 Michael would do the results and that is exactly Michael Hewson what he has done - one didn't even need to ask On May 10th next Lee Orienteers, headed him. up by Clare Nuttall who will plan the Michael, Diana Large, Mary Healy and myself courses, will run the Munster Champion- Michael died on 3rd February, aged 62. We are have shared B & B's in nearly every part of the ships 1992 on a new map of Combaun on all deeply saddened and shocked by his sudden country.It just won 't be the same without him. the south-western edge of the Galtee death and extend our sympathies to his wife, We will miss him terribly. Una, and family. Mountains. Michael led his life to the full and had many Andrew Bonar Law, Clare, a WickJow woman familiar since varied interests of which orienteering was only GEN. childhood with the mountain ways of that lovely one. He was always cheerful and always had a county, has been involved in the sport of word for all those he knew. He was a lovely It seems strange to think that we won't see o.rienteering since. its beginnings in Munster in man, he was a gentleman. Michael's small, wiry, grey-headed frame with the 1970' s. One of the foremost of the sport in Michael will be sorely missed by many, his Civil Service AC clubmates out doing the Ireland, Clare is a founder member of lee including all in orienteering who knew him. "10" in the Phoenix Park on weekday Orienteers which had its genesis in the Munster lunchtimes, or the distinctive wine and green 0- Orienteering Club, the very first club in the Mary Healy, suit in the forests again.