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Introduction to Forest Orienteering skills - see below

Tonight was yet another beautiful evening for running around a park a little less familiar to many of you, and for those on the longer courses a visit to many different, newly mapped schools in the region. Selwyn, tonight’s controller, aptly named the event – ‘Sprint the Blockhouse Bays!’ Thanks to Lyn for all her work in planning this event – she has also asked that the following be included

‘Lyn the planner would particularly like to express her thanks to Selwyn who, despite a family bereavement in the past week, carried the load of remapping and map preparation, which was made so much more complicated by the mixture of scales and sub-maps.
A reminder to new orienteers that the controls are placed quite precisely on their spots according to the map and course plan. So if you shift them while punching, please ensure they are replaced at the same position, not just “nearby” or in a spot you think may be easier to see or more accessible, which seemed to have happened in a few places in the park by the end of this evening.’

Tonight was a truly International affair, with orienteers visiting from Great Britain, Poland, Taiwan and Hong Kong. We hope you all enjoyed a taste of Summer orienteering in New Zealand.

Next week the event is on TUESDAY, 18th February in Cornwall Park, Greenlane. The event centre will be off Pohutukawa Drive, at the roundabout, just along from the café and close to the BBQ area. Courses 1 and 2 will have a Micro event as part of their course (many controls very close together on similar features, with no control numbers or descriptions, but a dot in the middle of the control circle to indicate the exact location). You must visit the correct controls shown on your course. The Micro will use Sport Ident electronic timing. If you own an e card please bring it with you. Those not on Course 1 or 2 can also go and do the Micro as a stand alone event if they wish.

Forest skills Coaching: The event next week will have the first of our brief coaching sessions to help those who want to move out from the Parks into Forest orienteering. These sessions will be at 7pm, for about 10 minutes. The first of these, next week, will be about interpreting the contours on your map. If you know you would like to attend this please send an email to auckoc@hotmail.com, or sign the sheet at registration when you arrive next week. The following 2 weeks will have sessions on map orientation/using a compass, and planning your route between controls. It would be helpful if you could also indicate if you plan to come to either of these so there will be an appropriate number of coaches available.