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    Briar Patch Archives

    Briar Patch – Index of Articles in Past Issues

    Newsletters are in PDF format. Select the date to download. Some files are large so be patient.

    Fall 2008
    (download)
    • What DVOA means to me (H. MacMullan III)
    • Note from the editor: Thank you!
    • Sweden, Here we come (J. Porter)
    • Junior Trip to Sweden (A. Campbell)
    • My Adventurous Trip to Deaf-O in Denmark, (T. Acuff)
    • Event report: Clash with the Creek (R. Tolbert)
    • Event report: Fair Hill (R. Tolbert)
    • Event report: Quail Hill Scout Camp Orienteering Day (R. Rycharski)
    • Event report: A Day or Two in the Medieval Forest of Elk Neck (T. Acuff)
    • North American Orienteering Championships (D. Babushok and C. McGrath)
    • Leg of the Issue: Red course, Hickory Run, Sept. 2008 (C. McGrath)
    • O-Puzzle: O-Movies (J. O’Conor)
    • Epunch Update (F. Reed)
    • The Most Dangerous Wildlife in the Woods (K. Geist)
    • Keep your ankles active (T. Overbaugh)
    • Juniors: Update on CASD Orienteering
    • Oreinteering is not about finding controls (C. McGrath)
    • Presentation (H. Lape)
    • Q&A from the DVOA E-board: is it better to push up hill, down hill or on the flat?
    • Top-Class Hickory Run (T. Hollowell)
    • Orienteering Family Style: Burton Family
    • Revisiting Rutgers Preserve (R. Rycharski)
    • President’s Column: T. Walsh
    Spring/ Summer 2008
    (download)
    • President’s column: Tim Walsh elected president
    • Note from the editor: Your contributions needed
    • Ringos’ service awards: Steve Aronson and Sharon Siegler, Ralph Tolbert, Ron and Ali Bortz
    • Top 10 lists and club rankings
    • How the rankings are calculated (K. Shaw)
    • Event directors job description (reprinted from Orienteering San Diego, March-April 2004)
    • Orienteering in Arizona (N. Sharp)
    • Event report: 2008 President’s Cup at Warwick (R. Tolbert)
    • Short: Warwick’s Charcoal Interpret Trail
    • Short: 50th anniversary of Chester County Parks and Recs Dept
    • Happy New Year: reflections on orienteering (J. Cambpell’s posting on DVOA eboard)
    • DVOA’s good—but always opportunities for improvement (D. Babushok)
    • O-Puzzle (J. O’Conor)
    • Rec-O-lections of DVOA (B. Putnam)
    • Where are they now: Matt Scott
    • Grid: Skills vs experience level
    • Fair Hill 6-hour rogaine announcement
    • List of navigational aids and techniques for intermediate and advanced orienteers (compiled by T. Overbaugh, reprinted from BP Dec 2001)
    • What is USOF?
    Dec 2007
    (download)
    • DVOA plants 40 trees to mark 40th anniversary (K. Urban)
    • Trail Orienteering (F. Kuhn)
    • President’s Column (R. Tolbert)
    • Relocation: How to find yourself again, (excerpted from Orienteering: The Skills of the Game by Carol McNeill)
    • From the DVOA Archives/Caroline Ringo
    • DVOAers named to 2008 standing team
    • Iron Hill Park
    • Event report: Iron Hill Fall 2007 (R. Tolbert)
    • Lehigh University A Event (M. Bertram)
    • First O Marathon at VF (results)
    • A Brief History of Orienteering from www. Orienteering-history.info
    • 2008 O-dates of interest
    • O-Puzzle: The Reverend Spooner goes orienteering (J. O’Conor)
    • How to improve your orienteering skills; comments from DVOA’s e-board
    • How to make use of unused maps from events (R. Tolbert )
    Mar 2007
    (download)
    • Pres Column (Tolbert): Where we’ve been, where we’re going
    • Recollection of DVOA’s formative years (C. Ringo)
    • 2006 Top 10 Lists & Club Rankings
    • Ringos’ Annual Service Awards: Mike Bertram & Kathy King, John Campbell Family, Robert Rycharski; also, overview of winners since 1993
    • Photos from annual meeting
    • Setting our sights: growing DVOA (M. Frank)
    • Brainstorming session
    • Map from first event at Valley Forge Nov 5, 1967
    • Notes from a new course setter (J. Brodsky, reprinted from Tucson Orienteering Club, Aug 2007
    • Getting to There from Here/Peter Amram (Reprinted form NEOC Times, Feb/March 2006)
    • Was Emily Bronte an orienteer? Spellbound
    • O Haiku/Kathy Urban
    • Event report: President’s Cup at Hibernia R. Tolbert)
    • You know you’re an orienteer when (reprinted from San Diego orienteering newsletter, Sept/Oct 2006)
    • News from DVOA Library
    • What is orienteering?
    • Valley Goat 3: Photo and short write up
    • What is an E-Event? (S. Fillebrown
    Dec 2006
    (download)
    • President’s column: looking back, looking ahead
    • Valley Forge Park: 225 years old, still changing
    • Aging “O” eyes (K. Geist)
    • Don’t Loiter at Controls (E. Custer, reprinted from BAOC)
    • O-Puzzle: The Last Control (J. O’Conor)
    • Event report: Lehigh River Canoe-O (S. Aronson)
    • Event report: Fair Hill (R. Tolbert)
    • Event report: Quail Hill (R. Rycharski)
    • Take Time to Explore (C. Ringo)
    • Batona 500 thank you (V. Masalkov)
    • Fox Chase advert
    • O Techniques (excerpted from Canadian O Fed Level 1 handbook)
    • DVOA help-wanted ads
    Sept. 2006
    (download)
    • Event report: O-mazing Daniel Boone Spell-O (R. Bortz)
    • President’s Column: falling into another season of O
    • 9th Annual Susquehanna Stumble
    • Snakes on a course (K. Geist)
    • Name that O-tune
    • Teaser: Fox Chase
    • O Games for a Rainy Day (Reprint: Tuscon OC, Aug 2005)
    • Missing jogger survives 4 days stuck in swamp (FLO)
    • Muir: Any fool can destoy games
    • O Events Unlimited (From Grapevine newsletter June 1996)
    • Looking to the future: Growing orienteering through our young people (C. Ferguson, USOF president)
    • Moments in compass History (reprint/Tucson O Club Aug 1994)
    • Advert: Batona 500 A-event
    June 2006
    (download)
    • Want to improve your O skills? Try DVOA’s training weekend
    • FAQs
    • Event report: Ilick’s Mill Rain-in (S. Aronson & S.Siegler)
    • Event report: Valley Goat 2, or How I learnt to love e-punching (M. Bertram)
    • Event report: Thundering into Tyler (S. Fillebrown)
    • Event report: Springing into O at Brandywine State Park (M. Cassidy)
    • More adventures at Brandywine (Delaware State Park’s adventure race series)
    • Event report: Fair Hills (D. Babashok & C. McGrath)
    • Adventure Race Courses (S. Fillebrown)
    • Event report: Iron Hill (T. Overbaugh)
    • Boulder Field at Hickory Run (C. Ringo)
    • Batona 500 A Event
    • Batsto Story
    • O-Puzzle (J. O’Conor)
    • Getting to there from here (P. Amran, reprinted from NEOC Times Feb/March 2006)
    March 2006
    (download)
    • Annual awards presented at winter meeting
    • In o, as in life, change is the only constant (president)
    • History of orienteering at VF (Caroline Ringo)
    • Happy birthday to DVOA (40 years in 2007)
    • Competition awards
    • E-punch updates
    • Service awards: Hartleys, Paters, Rick Whiffen
    • Notes from winter meeting (R. Tolbert)
    • How the rankings are calculated (K. Shaw)
    • President’s cup at Hibernia (R. Tolbert)
    • Event director’s job description (reprint from Orienteering San Diego)
    • O skills and strategies: route selection (Lawry & Sidney, published in Orienteering Ontario)
    • Using meets as training (D. Wildfogel, reprinted from LA Orienteering Sept-Oct 2001)
    • The Fitness Edge (Buckley, reprinted from St. Louis O Club, March 1999)
    • Bizarre Event Problems (B. Teahen/NZ(from Tuscon Nov ’98)
    • O Puzzle- Anagrams and more (J. O’Conor)
    • Giant Hogweed
    Dec. 2005
    (download)
    • Editor’s column: New look
    • Photo: lost (Wilkison)
    • Junior News/photo (Porter)
    • Boosting Juniors (DVOA has funds available)
    • DVOA on the web
    • O-Puzzle: Cryptic O #3 (O’Conor)
    • Training Tip: Everything you wanted to know about orienteering (J. Sankus, reprinted from NEOC Times Sept 2003)
    • More of what we love about orienteering (besides the map part) (J. Porter)
    • Walls of Brandywine photo contest
    • Short: I went to the woods (Thoreau)
    • 4th Annual DVOA long-O (S. Aronson & S. Siegler)
    • Charcoal burning platforms (P. Kusko, reprinted from BP Dec 1986)
    • Short: AWAD – copse
    • Playing in the snow: Nockamixon (J. Porter)
    • Back to Hickory Run: Training Weekend (F. Kruesi)
    • Request for recipes/rice pudding recipe
    • What is USOF (& ap form)
    • Event report: Fair Hill (R. Wood)
    • Trail O: What is it and how it came to be at Fair Hill (Sharp)
    • 8th Annual Garden State Scout-O (R. Rycharski)
    • Event report: Iron Hill (M. Cassidy)
    • The map at Pooh Corner (reprint)
    Sept. 2005
    (download)
    • Scoring: In the beginning: Scoring (B. Putnam)
    • Nat’l O Day (R. Rycharski)
    • Event report: Pakim Pond (M. Cassidy)
    • Event report: Hickory Run (R. Wilkison)
    • Making the Mt. Misery Map (Bertram)
    • Event report: Mt. Misery (M. Bertram)
    • Short: we all travel the milky way together, trees & men (Muir)
    • A Tale from the Colorado five-day relay
    • What was I thinking (D. Parson)
    • O Puzzle : Sudoku-O (O’Conor)
    June 2005
    (download)
    • Texas or bust: report on Venture crew’s trip (J. Porter)
    • USOF Jr Team (J. Porter)
    • E-punch update
    • Short: any fool can destroy trees (Muir)
    • Happy anniversaries – major membership milestones
    • O-Cross (J. O’Conor)
    • Short: Blanket Toss Game (volunteering)
    • Building your O word power: Base map – knoll
    • Warning: O Virus (P.. Kusko)
    • Know Your Sport: Interview w/S. Rachitskiy (P. Beal, reprinted from NEOC’s Grapevine)
    • Event report: Brandywine State Park (M. Cassidy)
    • Event report; NJ DVOA Garden State Scout O champs (R. Rycharski)
    • Event report: Ilick’s Mill (S. Aronson & S. Siegler)\
    • Event report: Green Lane Nature Center premier (J. Porter)
    • Event report: Memorial Day Weekend at the Water Gap (S. Fillebrown)
    March 2005
    (download)
    • O-Puzzle: More Cryptic O: Double Definitions (J. O’Conor)
    • Keeping in shape out of the woods (D. Darrah)
    • Short: chaparral
    • DVOA’s annual service awards: Heath, Robinsons, Balls
    • Venture Crew’s road to Texas (J. Porter)
    • Deaflympics news
    • Congrats to DVOA members chosen to USOF team
    • Adventure races, Delaware Parks
    • Letter to the masses: O is for everyone (R. Damtolft, reprinted from Chicago Area, May 1999)
    • What is orienteering? (reprinted from Quebec Orienteering’s May 1999 newsletter)
    • Event report: Brandywine, Dec 5, 2004
    • Event report: Fun running in the fields of Central Manalapan, NJ (R. Rycharski)
    Sept-Dec 2004
    (download)
    • Franks receive Silva Award
    • The Early History of Briar Rabbit (C. Ringo)
    • Proposal of new uniform designs
    • USOF convention report (L. Searle & C. Ringo)
    • Beginner’s Quadrant: Relocation is finding your way when you’re lost (P. Akin, reprinted from Possum’s Tale, Jan/Feb 1999)
    • Event report: Tatum Park Scout O (R. Rycharski)
    • Event report: Iron Hill (R. Tolbert)
    • Event report: Long-O at French Creek North (S. Aronson & S. Siegler)
    • Event report: White Clay Creek State Park (T. Overbaugh)
    • Event report: Iron Hill (S. Fillebrown)
    June 2004
    (download)
    • TT Parallel Errors (Minium)
    • DVOA’s first A Event: recollections of Mark Frank
    • O’Puzzle (J. O’Conor)
    • Junior Team Selections
    • Report from DVOA’s A-Event coordinator (R. Hall)
    • Event report: Nockamixon (J. Porter)
    • Event report: Core Creek (T. Marino)
    • Event report: Colliers Mill (B. Burg)
    • Event report: Evansburg (D. Darrah)
    • Event report: VF Fatlands (M. Bertram)
    • Event report: Willows & Skunk Hollow (T. Walsh)
    • Event report: (T. Overbaugh)
    • Canoe-O
    • DVOA’s summer picnic and relays (with recipes)
    • Training Tips: Beginner’s Clinics: Using Contour Lines; Beginner’s Clinics: Parallel Errors (M. Minium, LAO, Sept/Oct 2001)
    March 2004
    (download)
    • From the A Meet to Future Growth (E. Weyman)
    • Help wanted: Registration table worker (M. Frank)
    • How to fill out a pink card
    • Ringos’ service awards: B. Gross, V. Meyer, G. Smith)
    • 2003 year in review
    • Event report: President’s cup D. Boone (E. Scott)
    • Event report: Valley Goat (M. Bertram)
    • Event report: Back to Susquehanna (R. Tolbert)
    • Intro to orienteering at Brandywine Creek State Park (R. Tolbert)
    • Training Tip: What on earth is a reentrant? (extracted from Tucson Orienteering Club’s newsletter)
    • DCNR charts future with new action plan
    • Some good news for Penna.’s state parks
    Sept. 2003
    (download)
    • O Business—and Pleasure—at the USOF 2003 Convention (C. Ringo)
    • Nat’l O Day is coming to DVOA parks (R. Rycharski)
    • Going, going…where did GO come from? (C. Ringo)
    • Orienteering at 4-H State Achievement Day (J. Snyder)
    • What’s the deal with Sprint-O? (W. Riley)
    • Event report: Elk Neck (R. Tolbert)
    • Event report: VP Relay (R. Tolbert)
    • Event report: French Creek mini rogaine (S. Fillebrown)
    • Event report: 2nd annual Long-O champs at French Creek West (S. Aronson & S. Siegler)
    June 2003
    (download)
    • Equipment necessary to get started with SportIdent electronic (E. Custer, reprint)
    • MidAtlantic Region Junior Program (J. Porter)
    • Training Tips: Can we learn from other’s experiences (reprinted from NEOC Times, Apr/May 2003)
    • Orange course navigation (R. Shannonhouse, reprinted from The NEOC Times)
    • What is USOF?
    • The Billygoat: This might be the event for you (S. DeWitt, from the Western Conn. Orienteering Club’s web site)
    • Potpourri of Introductory Events
    • Event report: Hibernia County Park (R. Tolbert)
    • Event report: Ridley Creek State Park (M. Frank)
    • Event report: French Creek Central (C. Robinson)
    • Event report: Core Creek Park (J. Eagleton)
    • Event report: Valley Forge Mt. Joy (M. Bertram & K. King)
    • DVOA Library
    Mar 2003
    (download)
    • 2002 year in review
    • Ringos’ Service Awards: D. Prine, A. Fitch, Menendez Family
    • Four Seasons of Orienteering (K. Geist)
    • Holiday Family Orienteering Club (J. McNicholas)
    • How old am I, in O terms (classes)
    • Training Tip: Beginners Clinic: Use Contour Lines (M. Minium, reprinted from St. Louis Hudson Valley Navigator 6/99)
    • Two Attack Terms (J. Nash, reprint from Hudson Valley Navigator))
    • French Creek Mini Rogaine
    • Event report: Ridley Creek (M. Bertram & K. King)
    • Event report: President’s Cup
    • DVOA Library
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