Umstead North June 10, 2007

Josef Trzicky, Ken. Hanson, & Terese Camp, event directors

We had a lot of positive feedback regarding the earlier start time for this month's event, and over half of the starts took advantage of this earlier time, and roughly a third started around 10:00am. Hopefully future event directors will continue to offer this option during warmer months.

Well, we do not try to do this, and certainly do not like it when it does, but it did: This month pitched a shut-out with not a single finish on the white course. This was the most challanging white course that I have seen, even sharing one control in common with the red course. I suppose the lesson learned here for course design is that it never hurts to go easier on those orienteers who are just beginning, as well as those who have more experience but must contend with pressing time constraints, young children, and uncooperative canine companions.

The following people volunteered their time to make this month's event happen:
Josef Trzicky - Course design, control placement, control pickup.
Joseph Huberman - Course design tweaking, map printing, beginner class.
Ken. Hanson, Terese Camp - Start/Finish, registration, water controls, results, control pickup, and watermelon.
Other control pickup: Artem Kazantsev, Bill Ebenstein, Nathan Padula.

This has been a great season of orienteering. As usual, July and August are too hot for orienteering in this area, so our next event will be in September. See you then.