Quail Hill O Meet volunteers sought in NJ
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Topic created by BRycharski on Wed Mar 27, 2013 at 11:13 pmHi DVOA members, Its cold, its damp, there are no green leaves yet (in NJ), but the calendar says its Spring again: SOOOOOO ... Get ready for a fun set of DVOA courses at Quail Hill BSA camp and support Scout O training and map-hiking also at this great park. PLease review the posted Volunteer sign up jobs and consider to help out on 14 April. Even 10 minutes of help is Oppreciated. This O meet will Show toughness- (The Sandy storm damage from Nov 2012 is mostly a pile of stacked + cut up logs now), will display good Orienteering course (plus two Yellow courses, X and Y), and the Need for club O- trainers/volunteers (while we have many repeating BSA units and ROTC cadets attend this anual O meet, there are many newcomers/scouts needing early 'beginners' training), and of course I need DVOA helpers to eat my volunteer stash-o-meet-cookies. I have 160 Scouts (coming so far) and a few HS cadets give or take, signed up, please come to support this annual O Manalapan, NJ / training meet. If you are a Scout leader not yet signed up Scout-O Training registration closed yesterday ( 4 April) and we can not park, start or invite any additional Scout units. Try the Masoc Scout training event in early May on the DVOA schedule. Be assured DVOA members, we still have maps (and parking) for our DVOA and USOF affiliated members. A bit of parking trivia, appartently, The Lasar Tag local W/E business has recently lost there Quail area "lease" and are no longer operating at Quail Hill camp, unconfirmed but I was told it has happened. Means more parking and less jockying for limited camp parking spaces ...
DVOA members do not need to register, but I do ask you to consider to car pool to this April 14th O Meet event. I still have some late Scout starts atill open (I register the scouts to give them appointments to show up at camp to make sure the registration and start(s) process helps prevent most bottlenecks at the sign in tables). Hey, it will be fun if you remember to pitch in and I promise you (the volunteers) the trip and the O course(s) will be worth it. I (CS) designed the beginner thru Green Course, Guy Olsen gets credit for the Red course design. Let me know if you can join me and persons whom have already signed up to work to promote this O venue. Thanks in advance. Bob Rycharski -
Reply by Guy-O on Thu Mar 28, 2013 at 0:48 amI did?
Sounds like I'm being O-framed... -
Reply by BRycharski on Thu Apr 4, 2013 at 8:58 pmAll Quail Hill Scout registrations are Full at this time (unless you have contacted me before 3 or 4 april no more Scout units (we are leaving ample parking spaces for DVOA members) . Only DVOA and USOF affiliated club members are welcome to come (no advance registration needed) to enjoy the Quail Hill First Annual "Sandy Log-Leap" contest; all joking aside ... the Manalapan forest is OK, just that there are triple IMO the new rootstocks in the QH forest now, and as we Course setters say this O meet is "normal" local event from a white and Yellow course view, and all courses Orange Brn and Green thru Red, this is not an - O meet - to "Move up" a level, except that All major camp trails are clean, and all secondary foot trails are nearly all clear or at least have all major blocker trees and branches power sawed down, and logs are awaiting removal.
PS, Yes Guy you designed the "Red course" route, and yes I picked the flag spots, but I did not see the clever Red course you designed. Hey, most red runners know your course would be easier than one I usually design, I would have had them up on the eastern adjacent power lines, but alas the JCPL power company is clear cutting the whole Quail Area Power line Right of Way, too bad, it (clear cuts) eliminated some tough knoll, unique thicket and power line O challenges in NJ. -
Reply by BRycharski on Tue Apr 9, 2013 at 1:27 am
The O Crisis Loosely based on Thomas Paines :the Crisis, 1776 with change word permission http://www.ushistory.org/paine/crisis/c-01.htm
April 14, 1776
I thank God, that I O-fear not. I see no real cause for O-fear. I know our O Meet volunteer situation well, and can see the "way" out of it. While our DVOA members were collected, How dared not risk an eboard fuss; and it is no credit to him that he de-Quail camped from the Delaware and Raritan Plains, and waited a mean opportunity to ravage the fightless ... Jerseys; but it is great credit to us, we 300 DVOA Spartans, that, with a handful of men (and women), we sustained an O=rderly retreat for near an hundred meters, brought off our maps, all our field and flag kits, the greatest part of our control stores, and had four crossable rivers to pass. None can say that our retreat to the Go Control was precipitate, for we were just near three hours in performing it, that the club members might have time to run and have exercise and come in under time. Twice we marched back to walk thru the fight, and remained out till nearly the control pick up. The sign of fear of being lost was not seen on our course, and had not some of the cowardly and disaffected Northern Jerseys inhabitants spread false alarms through the O internet and at the last control, the Jerseys had never been less ravaged. Once more we are again collected features and aim,ed off and collected our correct punch codes; our new DVOA club at both ends of the Delaware river and Garden state parks system is recruiting meet volunteers fast, and we shall be able to open the next campaign with 220 men and Boy Scouts, well armed and en-compassed, and many of those bearing volunteer smiles themselves. This is our situation, and who will run and hike and meet direct may know it. By perseverance and fortitude we have the prospect of a glorious Quail Hill O meet and special map hike; by cowardice and submission, the sad choice of a variety of evils — a ravaged Monmouth county (drat that hurricane Sandy)— a depopulated Manalapan tree city — habitations without safety, and jogging without hope — our homes turned into barracks and swamped-dirty leggings, and a future "race" to provide for, whose fathers (and Mothers) we shall not doubt of. Look on this picture (of what happens when members do not volunteer) and sweep over and beyond it! And if there yet remains one thoughtless O-wretch who believes it not, let him suffer mispunching unlamented and upon dropping his clue sheet in the deep mud unless he/she volunteers, by Friday or sooner (please).
By Thomas and Robert R Paine. PLease pardon my license and mis-direction and DO please volunteer to help at the 14 April O meet at Quail Hill Camp, Manalapan , NJ a DVOA production. This is the time that tries an Event Directors soul... by Bob humbly asking for your part time O assistance this Sunday _ see the worker needs - sign up on the schedule link on the DVOA web
