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Monday Jan 21, 2013 #
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Orienteering 2:00:00 [5]
Extreme-O. I actually have no idea what our time was. I did this with Mike Minium. Isabel did it with Addison (who came with Mike) and Dan (NEOC). The kids won our section (short A), handily -- they were last to start and first to finish.
It struck me how much fun the kids had. Working together, as a team, orienteering, and solving a few puzzles along the way. They had a BLAST. Running through the woods in teams and making it fun -- that is what ARK is doing; that is what we want to do in the US. There was real orienteering; maybe the controls weren't super duper hard, but it was definitely real orienteering. There were some corridor-O legs, and a contour-only section (you could add features from a master map if you wanted). There were some controls hung in culverts (thanks, Mike, for getting those!); a part of the map on aerial photo; a kayak control (which one team of boys swam); a murder scene control; a section where you matched photos to the scene. Isabel loved it. She loved it. The kids got to run together, play together.
It struck me how much fun the kids had. Working together, as a team, orienteering, and solving a few puzzles along the way. They had a BLAST. Running through the woods in teams and making it fun -- that is what ARK is doing; that is what we want to do in the US. There was real orienteering; maybe the controls weren't super duper hard, but it was definitely real orienteering. There were some corridor-O legs, and a contour-only section (you could add features from a master map if you wanted). There were some controls hung in culverts (thanks, Mike, for getting those!); a part of the map on aerial photo; a kayak control (which one team of boys swam); a murder scene control; a section where you matched photos to the scene. Isabel loved it. She loved it. The kids got to run together, play together.
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