Tyler State Park Thanks
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Topic created by Karl on Sun Aug 19, 2012 at 7:14 pmWe would like to thank the following volunteers for all of their assistance in helping make the Tyler event a successful one:Mary Frank-Park and Bucks County Community College permissions along with last minute supplies and registration help.Jim Puzo-For registration, e-punch and instructional help.The Plunketts-for registration and e-punch assistance.Mike Borovicka-getting the white, yellow, red and blue runners started.Robert Frank-start disassembly and clean-up.Sandy Fillebrown-straightening out ALL of the problems that crop up with epunch.Kathy Urban-for being the old pro at late epunch.Ron Cook-for control collection and park beautification.Mark Walsh-control collection.Dan Barker-a massive amount of control collection.Dasha and Clem-for collection of the most distant controls.Zac Barker-for start disassembly and general clean-up.Thank you all very much for your volunteering efforts. We couldn't have done it without you!!The Ahlswedes (Karl, Sandy, Greg, Kent and the newest addition Sarah)
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Reply by furlong47 on Sun Aug 19, 2012 at 9:27 pmThanks to all for this fun event! Here are some pics from the campus area:
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Reply by johncampbell on Mon Aug 20, 2012 at 7:40 am
Thanks to the Ahlswedes and all your team of volunteers - this event was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed the switch to the sprint type legs 2/3 of the way around the course, it was good to have to change one's orienteering technique. Great job!
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Reply by anniemac on Mon Aug 20, 2012 at 1:28 pmThanks to Karl and all the Ahlswedes, and everyone else for helping out...you made this a very well-organized, well-communicated event! (And how fast were those results up, too!) Without your encouragement I probably wouldn't have even tried doing the Green, but I did and ended up having a lot of fun. Though I haven't been doing this long, I could tell that a lot of thought was put into every little aspect of the day, and the result was a smoothly run, efficient event with a good turnout. Great job! Nice pics Julie K.
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Reply by Karl on Mon Aug 20, 2012 at 2:33 pmI agree with Ann, Julie's photos are great!! It looks like people had some fun!
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Reply by markwalsh on Wed Aug 22, 2012 at 4:15 pmKarl ....thanks for putting on a great event...nice touch throwing in that urban sprint at the end.
Never had a chance to do one of those but got a small taste of it at the Raid the Sanctuary up here with the HVO on the Barbarian course at Westmoreland Sanctuary. ( was thrown in in the middle of the race).
Hey did anyone else get poision ivy, oak, or sumanc?????
Breaking out in a few places on my legs ....I guess that's what I get for running in shorts.
Quite a few GOALS adventure racing types showed up as well to get in a workout and hone their O-skills....lets see some of the DVOA'ers who can mountain bike cross over to the adventure races .......The Edge at Washington Crossing on Oct 21st. a 3 hr beginners race and 6hr advanced race. -
Reply by markwalsh on Wed Aug 22, 2012 at 4:25 pmfurlong.....thanks for the photo link and taking the time to capture the course and runners......it's always cool when u can see yourself in action.
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Reply by Sandy on Wed Aug 22, 2012 at 7:01 pmWhile I'm all for adventure racing - I've done several and always had a blast - I really hope DVOAers will be up at the Water Gap on October 21st running in the North American Orienteering Championships and helping out if possible.
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Reply by WindWalker on Wed Aug 22, 2012 at 8:14 pmoooh, oooh, I can mountain bike a little bit.
I wish there were more affordable camping/meal plan options for the NAOC. I know there isn't anything left, but when Lisa and I started adding it all up it was quite expense. We were planning on attending and helping out, but decided not too due to the cost. Remember one of the beauties of orienteering is the low cost of enjoyment. If the money would have went back to DVOA we wouldn't have had a problem with it, but it seems like it all goes to PEEC. It's really not a bad value, but for us it was hard to justify. So hopefully we'll get up for a day trip. It would have been cool if there was onsite camping, or atleast a place we could have parked our trailer for the weekend.
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Reply by Sandy on Wed Aug 22, 2012 at 8:53 pmThere is camping at Dingman's Campground in the Delaware Water Gap. And it's the site of the remote parking for the weekend so you'll be right where you need to be to take shuttle buses to all the events.
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Reply by Guy-O on Wed Aug 22, 2012 at 11:52 pm
Wow.
Plugging an event competing with NAOC on DVOA's eBoard... -
Reply by WindWalker on Thu Aug 23, 2012 at 6:45 amThanks Sandy, we were thinking about camping there, but it just didn't seem like a good option, account of not having a vehicle onsite with extra gear, food, water and stuff. We haven't ruled it out yet and are still discussing.
At least Mark's plug came on a post of a completely different subject.
Sorry for going off topic with this.
Mike
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Reply by markwalsh on Thu Aug 23, 2012 at 10:58 amSorry guys and gals.....I'm doing the Friday middle distance race and forgot that the goals washington crossing race was same weekend. (I also have an advent race on Sat, besides WX on sun)
I only mentin these things because there is a symbiotic relationship between the sports as evidenced by at least 6 adventure racers ( a few pretty good ones) showing up at Tyler last week end.
Since Washington crossing is one of your events as well I just thought that a few dvoa'ers would already know the terrain and give it a try..... didn't mean to influence volunteers.
I really am sorry.
but ....while I'm in hot water already .....HVO'S Hudson Highlander scheduled for 10-7
and as we already know that race is not for everyone.
