From: "Bryan Teahan" <BCT@ak.dosli.govt.nz>
Date: 26 Sep 94 13:05:14 GMT-1200
Subject: Re: Hunters
Message-Id: <MAILQUEUE-101.940926130514.448@ak.dosli.govt.nz>
Re: Hunters:
William Luitje wrote:
>Does this mean that you don't have hunters to worry about? It is
>fast approaching hunting season here in the US. I have never heard of
>any orienteer being injured by a hunter but it is always a concern. It
>certainly is un-nerving to hear gunfire close by or to run into a
>clearing and see a man in a tree with a bow and arrow looking at you.
In New Zealand we have hunters and cannabis growers.
For Orienteering mappers they are a major worry.
Some of the more memorable moments I have spent mapping:
- Watching military guys shooting automatic weapons practising trying to
capture a sand dune hill. They didn't even know I was there.
- I had to take to wearing red during hunting season after meeting hunters
carrying big shotguns. When hunting season opened it was as if the 3rd
World War had started. The scariest moment mapping was when I heard a
shot go off within 50m of me. I then turned around to see a deer looking
at me about 20m away in the close pines. I got out of there quick I can
tell you. With the amount of firing that went on in the next 5 minutes
I'm pretty sure that deer is still out there alive.
- Finding 3 cannibis plots in thick green in 15 minutes.
Other memorable moments I have spent mapping are:
- eyeballing a deer. A deer was bounding along in the native bush enjoying
life till it came suddenly face to face with me in multi-coloured o'suit,
pink sun-hat and purple pack. It came to almost within spitting distance
before it suddenly took off - and then stopped around the side of a spur
out of sight wondering what that wierd apparition was.
- I once thought as I was wading through chest-high cutti grass:
'There must be a fence here somewhere' and a nanosecond later I hit it
hidden in the undergrowth. Its always comforting to reafirm now and then
as a mapper that I am where I think I am.
- On a hot summer's day the noise of the cicadas was a roar reaching a
cresendo and cacophony of noise making even thinking difficult. Every now
and then was the bell sound of a tui, the flutter of a wood pigeon and the
hoot of an owl. In the background symphony there were fantails flittering
and darting about seemingly asking the question "Why are you here?".
Huge spiderwebs hung glistening with moisture in the morning and sometimes
my whole face was accidentally covered with the clinging webs making me
think I was spiderman.
- Some of the other bird and insect life I also came across were peacocks,
pheasants, parrots, horses, rabbits, hawks, sheep, cattle, goats,
deer, ducks, swans and maybe wallabies. I also had to cope with
dodging 4WDs, motorbikes, lost trampers, horse trekkers, mountainbikers,
attacking magpies and being stung several times by wasps.
- Within a week I was in a hailstorm and a sandstorm. After the hailstorm
I had to spend 10 minutes changing a pencil lead. My hands were so
numb I had to use my teeth. During the sandstorm out on the APOC map
I had to map from a depression and every now and then duck out to take
a peek at the surrounding area while the sand blasted at me.
- 95% of the time my running shoes are in my car but one day when I went
mapping good old Murphy struck again and I reached the forest without
any shoes except jandals. I couldn't possibly waste 40 minutes mapping
(I was losing daylight) so I tried jandals for 10 minutes. I gave this up
after trying for 3 minutes walking up a sand hill. I got rid of the
jandals and walked around for 7 hours in bare feet. I felt like a hippie
communing with nature. Can you believe it? This wasn't the only disaster
to struck that fateful day. As I put the jandals in my pack my lunch must
have dropped out?! Somewhere on the world cup map is two chicken rolls in
glad wrap waiting to be eaten.
- Losing your lunch is not as bad as forgetting to take any drink. Have you
been without water for 6 hours and walked about 10km up and down hills? I
have - its not fun. Another day I forgot my pencils which did require a
40 minute delay. On still another day I got a forest key and drove to
a gate only to find an impassible slip 5m from the gate. I had a good
training run that day.
- The most soul-destroying thing to happen to me mapping was after doing
a day's mapping I placed the fieldwork face inwards in my pack and
I found after running 20 minutes back to my car that most of the fieldwork
was obliterated by sweat. There is nothing more painful than having to
map an area twice.
- Oh, have I mentioned the flies, sandflies, prickly bush, numerous
scratches, grass seeds that take forever to get rid off, bush lawyer,
sunburn, soggy smelly shoes and socks and sand that gets everywhere.
Mapping is fun. Not.
Bryan Teahan.
A mapper's motto could be summarised as:
"Deadlines and Committments - What to leave in, what to leave out..."
(Bob Segar)
From: Bill Teahan <wjt@kauri.cs.waikato.ac.nz>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 94 13:46:01 +1200
Subject: O Article #31
Message-Id: <9409260146.AA13623@kauri.cs.waikato.ac.nz>
O Article #31
A True Story
by Bill Teahan
An orienteer is hunting for some orienteering books in the library.
In walks this rooster large as life, and bowls on up to the girl
at the checkout counter. The rooster says "Book". The girl looks a
bit puzzled, but decides to give it a book. The rooster
charges off with the book.
The next day, the orienteer was returning the orienteering books,
and in walks the rooster again. This time it says "Book Book."
The girl decides to give it two books, and it charges off again.
The orienteer returned to the library the following day, and was
taking out a book entitled "Fishing in Guatemala", not because he
was interested in fishing, or even interested in Guatemala,
but because he was beginning to get interested in the girl at the
checkout counter. Low and behold, in walks the rooster again.
This time it says "Book Book Book". The girl gives it three
books this time, and off it goes.
That weekend, the orienteer was showing the girl at the checkout
counter how to orienteer at a local park event. They are strolling
past a small pond and to their amazement, they see the rooster
throwing some books into the pond. They look across and see
a frog appearing to look at the books, then saying "Read it.
Read it. Read it."
---
Once had gas, and it really stunk. Soon found out, I smelt like a skunk.
Once had gas, and it was foul. Soon found out, I had to clean out my bowel.
Once had gas, and it was a pain. Soon found out, it went down the drain.
With sincere apologies to Blondie.
(OK, so this has nothing to do with Orienteering. Sue me.)
---
Veni. Vidi. Vici. Julius Caesar.
Vidi. Vici. Veni. Anon.
From: "Juerg Bolliger" <jbollige@daisy.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 19:58:52 -0400
Subject: Re: world-cup results
Message-Id: <94Sep25.195853edt.336984@daisy.uwaterloo.ca>
Thanks a lot for the fast information-service regarding the results of
the latest world-cup round in Germany.
I have one question concerning the women's standings, though:
> 1) Marlene Jansson, Sverige 1.08.57, 2) Hanne Sandstad, Norge
> 1.10.04, 3) Katarina Borg, Sverige 1.10.30, 4) Vroni Kvnig,
> Sverige 1.10.38, 5) Hanne Staff, Norge 1.10.50, 6) Brigitte Wolf,
Since when does Vroni Koenig start for Sweden? As far as I can
remember she is Swiss.
Anyways, thanks again for the results.
-- Juerg
From: jankoc@sparc-atom.fi.uib.no ( Jan Kocbach )
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 23:04:02 +0100
Subject: [none given]
Message-Id: <199409252204.AA05073@sparc-atom.fi.uib.no>
Hello.
Here are the results from the Word-Cup event in Ballenstedt,
Germany, 25/9/94, taken from NTB :
Ballenstedt, Tyskland (NTB): Verdenscup orientering sxndag:
Menn (13,4 km):
1) Hevard Tveite, Norge 1.22.46, 2) Timo Karppinen, Finland
1.22.49, 3) Carsten Jxrgensen, Danmark 1.23.41, 4) Jxrgen
Mertensson, Sverige 1.24.14, 5) Bjxrnar Valstad, Norge 1.24.43,
6) Johan Ivarsson, Sverige 1.24.50, 7) Chris Terkelsen, Danmark
1.24.54, 8) Rudolf Ropek, Tsjekkia 1.25.11, 9) Jimmy Birklin,
Sverige 1.25.22, 10) Sixten Sild, Estland 1.25.31,
. . . 17) Kjetil Bjxrlo, Norge 1.25.25, 24) Petter Thoresen,
Norge 1.27.53, 27) Jon Tvedt, Norge 1.28.28, 31) Per Olausen,
Norge 1.29.01.
World Cup : (5 av 6 lxp): 1) Janne Salmi, Finland 176, 2)
Tveite 169, 3) Thoresen 166, 4) Ivarsson 165, 5) Mika Kuisma,
Finland 159, 6) Steven Hale, Storbritannia 153, 7) Terkelsen 149,
8) Jxrgensen 138, 9) Lars Holmqvist, Sverige 147, 10) Mertensson
134,
. . . 11) Valstad 131, 15) Bjxrlo 120, 23) Tvedt 89, 37) Anders
Bjxrnsgaard, Norge 55, 42) Tore Sandvik, Norge 42.
Kvinner (9,1 km):
1) Marlene Jansson, Sverige 1.08.57, 2) Hanne Sandstad, Norge
1.10.04, 3) Katarina Borg, Sverige 1.10.30, 4) Vroni Kvnig,
Sverige 1.10.38, 5) Hanne Staff, Norge 1.10.50, 6) Brigitte Wolf,
Sveits 1.10.51, 7) Katalin Olah, Ungarn 1.10.59, 8) Johanna Tira,
Finland 1.11.50, 9) Ann-Kristin Hxgseth, Norge 1.12.08, 10)
Yvette Hague, Storbritannia 1.12.09,
. . . 18) Torunn Fossli, Norge 1.15.06, 25) Ragnhild Bente
Andersen, Norge 1.16.04, 45) Siri Stxrmer, Norge 1.21.20.
World Cup : (5 av 6 lxp): 1) Jansson 184, 2) Sandstad 171, 3)
Hague 169, 4) Staff 163, 5) Gunilla Svdrd, Sverige 159, 6) Anna
Bogren, Sverige 157, 7) Tira 145, 8) Sabrina Meister-Fesseler,
Sveits 141, 9) Reeta Kolkkala, Finland 140, 10) Kvnig 133,
. . . 12) Andersen 127, 13) Fossli 126, 31) Hxgseth 63, 41) Gro
Sandstad, Norge 45, 46) Kari Christansen, Norge 36.
Verdenscupen avsluttes i Jicin, Tsjekkia lxrdag 1. oktober.
Jan Kocbach
From: James Baker <76070.630@compuserve.com>
Date: 25 Sep 94 11:55:59 EDT
Subject: US O-net readers
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From: Andy Simpson <undy@interconnect.com.au>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 22:08:44 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Re: Wildlife, guns, & orienteering
Message-Id: <199409251208.AA06251@tulpi.interconnect.com.au>
I can remember a Harvester relay in the UK, where the Army was on
a night exercise at the same time that the first leg runners were out
on their course. The leading runner (I think it may have been Al Bradley
or Tim Tett of South Yorkshire Orienteers) was "captured" by the army and
held for about 15 minutes before he could convince them that he wasn't in
fact an enemy of the state.
It must have been Al, because that was the year that Tim ran into a road
sign (it was still night) & cut his head open. Who said that 5-colour maps
and accurate surveys took all the fun out of orienteering. In fact I was
quite interested in the N.American correspondent who indicated that it was
now legal to bear hidden arms in some states. What a great new dimension this
could add to orienteering ! Imagine relay tactics - you don't want to get
in the lead because as soon as you get near the last control, the pack will
blow you away. A new route-choice regime will predominate, where the
green stuff will become more attractive (better cover), whilst no-one in
their right mind will run along exposed ridges with scant vegetation. Best
of all, those old-time O-suits (any colour as long as its brown or green)
will once again come into their own.
--
Andy Simpson,
3/3 Gladstone Parade, <-- That's left at the Colonel's place and left again
Lindfield, fine wine, beer and chocolate always welcome.
NSW 2070,
Australia.
undy@interconnect.com.au
From: dtrewin@stats.govt.nz
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 1994 15:32:33 +1200
Subject: [none given]
Message-Id: <199409250332.AA22305@wright.stats.govt.nz>
Subject: Subscription
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Dennis Trewin
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