Quail Hill Still a GO! Volunteers Welcome
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Topic created by Gillettejw on Thu Mar 16, 2017 at 8:04 amDespite Mother Nature's best efforts, we are still a go for Quail Hill. Bob plans to set the course on Saturday. We have around 85 Cadets pre-registered as of today. The forcast has some rain and snow Saturday clearing by 9. The Camp Rangers have given Bob the Go so we will be at Cam bright and early. Registration will be in the large pavilion past the Parking lot and next to the rifle range. We are a bit light on Volunteers, so I would appreciate any help we can get. Hope to see you out there. >>John
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Reply by bobburg on Sat Mar 18, 2017 at 1:46 amWe have a great event waiting for you at Quail Hill this Sunday.So don't let tonight's local weather - ratings-boosting hype leading into their forecast - fool you. "OMG - Snow Sat!!! Snow Sun!!!" Yes the Lehigh Valley and Poconos (close to some of you) will get some dustings. But central NJ will have steady temps in daytime 40's, even well-above freezing temps overnight Saturday into Sunday. So we invite you to show up in weather-defying numbers.Bottom line, we will have a great day of slushy (or perhaps only muddy) low 40's orienteering awaiting you at Quail Hill on Sunday. And you will love the courses, visiting all sorts of new (and newly revised) sections of the camp -- navigating through Winter sparse easily visible "not yet" vegetation.We invite some of you so moved to help early or relieve early staff late, to help the day run as smooth as silk and fun for everyone. Just make sure to bring a change of clothes to change into (if necessary) after you run a course that will undoubtedly be invitingly messy, and just the kind of challenge that orienteers pride themselves on conquering with a shrug.
See you all in the woods.....and I'll post the latest on-site update tomorrow evening, once I get home from setting up controls..... -
Reply by wriley on Sat Mar 18, 2017 at 2:35 pmGood for you for forging on. I will see you there. Looking forward to Bob's map revisions and new sections!
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Reply by camperpat on Sat Mar 18, 2017 at 3:05 pmit just looks dreary out, but its not cold and its not gonna be raining tomorrow either . see you there
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Reply by BRycharski on Sat Mar 18, 2017 at 4:07 pmThanks Bob and John. See you in the white woods tomorrow for the 18th DVOA scheduled run at Quail hill Camp (I was mulling the # of malapan maphike events and if one would count the 2 times prior to DVOA revising Theo Zaharias and mine very crude volunteer 1999 CAD camp map, this is (unless i have made a math count error), ths may be the 20th anniversary of this map use. would have been the 21st except for Hurry Cane Sandy cancelling the map use that one year. For you first timers to Quail consideration, its a nice compact camp, good trail nework for beginners, but lots stuff off trail for the green and red runners to find 3 minor swamps ( .check wih dirty Annie for one uncrossable swamp), many stream crossings, and route choices galore around the cental hill where George Washingtons' scouts are said to kept watch for British Army movements at one point in the 1770's. And for the orange runner theres always some sort of Fight or water feature in the way of the best route to your next control. So please visit Quail Hill map tomorrow and see the camp thru my and Theos Z mapmaking eyes, as I will always remember when I transversed a apparent featureless hill sideslope during fieldcheck and found that the old B & W map was in error, and there was a major 6-7 meter deep reentrant there. ( spoiler alert) Maybe Bob B will again locate a control Flag there. SYITW Bob R, 1st O Club Quail mapper... PS And please volunteer to help, even for short periods
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Reply by bobburg on Sun Mar 19, 2017 at 4:00 amfor your breakfast consideration.....What a great afternoon in the Quail Hill woods yesterday, setting out the course flags!!!!Wednesday's 5" of solid ice-caked terrain has turned to just barely crusty snow that by this noon will be 0"s on southern slopes, maybe 2" of slush on northern slopes.I promise you will enjoy the courses that use the revised map to full advantage, and terrain that while perhaps offering slower going, rewards easy navigation in white background with such minimal vegetation.I have combined Brown and Green to offer a great longish Red (nearly Blue) course. That means that Brown, Green, and Red orienteers can all discuss identical courses.....great fun after Finish.I promise you will have fun out in these unique but perfectly manageable circumstances.And for those who help us out -- especially to relieve our core staff so that they can run their course of choice after you have run yours -- we are providig a O-smorgasboard, from ginger cookies and hot chocalate, to gourmet chips and pretzels, to soup I'm preparing that always ends up as a stew.Venture across the Delaware River and enjoy the unique O-party the Quail Hill terrain is putting on for us.....you will remember it fondly.
