Delaware Valley Orienteering Association

Briar Patch – Index of Articles in Past Issues

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• 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

• 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: 50^th 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?

• DVOA plants 40 trees to mark 40^th 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 )

• 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

• 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

• Event report: O-mazing Daniel Boone Spell-O (R. Bortz)
• President’s Column: falling into another season of O
• 9^th 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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)
• 4^th 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)
• 8^th Annual Garden State Scout-O (R. Rycharski)
• Event report: Iron Hill (M. Cassidy)
• The map at Pooh Corner (reprint)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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: 2^nd annual Long-O champs at French Creek West (S. Aronson & S. Siegler)

• 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

• 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