SPRING 2008 ISBN 0227-6658

� Interviews with Past and Present Elites � Coaching Manual Update � COF Conference � COCs 2008 � Sass Peepre Training Camp

Editor’s Notes:

During racecourse design for April 12th’s Salomon Giant’s Rib Raid, the Golden Horseshoe Orienteering (GHO) squad was up to their knees in fluffy snow. However, after a week of warmer temperatures and rain, the Hilton Falls landscape transformed into a swelling mass of water and rock. A record number of participants (almost 200) took on RACE#2 in the Salomon Adventure Running Series which doubled as EVENT#1 of 2 for teams vying for a coveted slot in the Saab Salomon Mountain-X Race in France this summer. Rocky Ridge Camp was the host site for this highly anticipated event and as the teams gathered for the start of the race under the giant Saab Salomon archway, it was easy to feel the energy going hand in hand with the start of another racing season in Ontario. Amongst the 60+ threesomes toeing the start line were a host of re-nowned Canadian adventure racers and orienteering superstars. In the MALE category, teams GHO Runners, Foreigners, and Urban Athlete have all taken home top honours in several endurance events

in North America and Europe. This race was slated to be a special one for Bob Miller of Team Urban Athlete in particular, as his long and ardu-ous recovery from a broken femur continues. Backed up by teammates Scott Ford and Bill Wells, this team is hungry to race in France.

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Time is flying and spring is here. Well, at least it is here in the East ! COF has developed some really neat promotional tools … such as the really cool poster for our National O Week. Please forward your feedback. www.orienteering.ca

There are a lot of good photos of Canadian orienteers out there these days. With blogs, club websites and discussion boards such as Attackpoint, there are always new photos up showing recent races. Thanks to Wil Smith, Andrea Balacova, Mike Waddington, Brent Langbakk and OOC for the photos in this edition of Legends. See you in the woods! Nina

The Coaching Association of Canada’s (CAC)

National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) for

Community Coaches (CC) in Orienteering (big “O”) It’s been more than a year since the last newsletter report on the project. At that time, (Jan ’07) we were assembling the four Community Coach workshop manuals for distribution to the Pro-vincial & Territorial representatives for their review and comments. Pippa McNeil of YOA had produced the Coach’s Toolbox, a comprehensive reference manual on virtually all aspects of coaching newcomers to the sport. She had also modified the template Learning Facilitator’s Guide for orienteers, the Coach’s Workbook for the workshop exercises, and the CAC Refer-ence Manual of general information on coaching theory, ethics, and safety. With the first draft of the manuals completed we were ready to run the two mandatory pilot workshops. The first was held last July in Saskatoon on the beautiful U of S campus where we had perfect practice terrain and O-map just outside our classroom. Pippa performed most of the facilitating for the seven participants from several different provinces. The second pilot workshop was held in Ottawa in November with six participants from the Ottawa area. Unfortu-nately, there was 20 cm of snow in the local parks so we concentrated on improving the written material. Let me take this opportunity to again thank all of those pilot attendees for their sup-port. The next big step was to establish a national network of Learning Facilitators – Course Con-ductors in the old NCCP – who will deliver the Community Coach workshops in their respective Provinces and Territories. This was accomplished just last month with workshops in Ottawa and Calgary. We had terrific representation from all across the country and I would like to intro-duce Orienteering’s new Community Coach Learning Facilitators to you. Each province/territory will have a designated Master Learning Facilitator (MLF) who will coordinate the delivery of the program in their area. Nova Scotia – Michael Price (MLF) and Jim Blanchard New Brunswick – Paul Looker (MLF) Quebec – Randy Kemp (MLF) Ontario – Annette van Tyghem (MLF) and Doug Innes Manitoba – Jennifer Hamilton (MLF) Alberta (and supporting Sask.) – Doug Dowell (MLF), Bill Jarvis, Karin Gerritson BC – Richard Lay (MLF) Yukon – Ross Burnett (MLF) and Barbara Scheck Pending conditional approval of our workshop material and project status by a CAC committee, we will be in a position to start delivering the Community Coach program. In anticipation of suc-cessful approval early this summer, we have already scheduled the first official CC workshop for this August at the COC’s in Fundy. Check out the COC week program for more information. Every orienteer with an interest in coaching is welcome to attend. I would like to sincerely thank the CAC and in particular, consultant Anna Mees, for all their fi-nancial and organizational support (with patience) during this project. There is still a lot to do including the production of good coaching videos and a plan to work towards the development of the Competitive Stream material. I will have more information on those initiatives this sum-mer at the COC’s. In the meantime, if you have any questions on this new program, contact your local MLF or yours truly at: bill@wgacarto.ca. Bill Anderson, Ottawa

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Snowshoeing Logan Roots 3 Golds

X Country Skiing Dahria Beatty 4 Golds

Holly Bull 1 Gold

Trevor Bray 1 Bronze

Adrienne Hynes 1 Bronze

Emily Wilson 1 Bronze

Kendra Murray 4th

Michael Abbott 5th

Biathlon Evelynn Kitchen 6th

NATIONAL TEAM SELECTIONS A Big Thanks to the Ottawa Orienteering Club for hosting the national selection races. Check out the COF website for all your updated infor-mation on our team!

www.orienteering.ca

JWOC SQUAD NAMED

The Junior World Orienteering Championships team has been selected. Ted de St. Croix has named the team for the 2008 Junior World Ori-enteering Championships. JWOC 2008 is in Göteborg, Sweden and takes place from June 30 to July 6.

Check out the details of the races at:

www.gmok.nu/jwoc2008/

Yukon Orienteering Association Juniors

excelled at this year’s Arctic Winter Games.

Congratulations!

Men: Robbie Anderson, Damian Konotopetz,Colin Abbott, Lee Hawk-ings, Fraser Ross, Graham Ereaux

Women: Emily Kemp, Carol Ross

COF LOGO We’ve developed a new COF logo! The APOC 2002 Canada gang was kind enough to give us their logo - which was very well received - and we tweaked it a bit for the COF. There are several versions (including a simple version to be used for embroidering etc.) We’ve just received this work from the graphic designer, so stay tuned to the COF website for all the details.

COF EMAIL LIST A reminder for Canadian orienteers to join the COF’s email list. This is a key communication avenue for the COF and orienteers to share information with orienteers across Canada. To subscribe send an email to orienteeringcanada-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or visit www.orienteering.ca and you’ll see the sign-up box on the main page. WE NEED SOME HELP! We’ve got a lot on the go at the COF and we need help from orienteers across Canada to make things happen. (see the 2008 plan at www.orienteering.ca/pdfs/2008/COFplan2008.pdf) Here are just a few of the volunteer jobs that we are currently recruiting for:

• help with the officials program update

• help to coordinate a WRE event advisor clinic in Canada

• provide suggestions for links and resources to add to COF web site

• help to update the COF rules help adapt the new championship course guidelines for smaller events Even if you have only a few hours, we can use your time and expertise. For more details email Charlotte at: info@orienteering.ca

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On the COED side, the top 5 was wide open with several experienced teams in the mix. Flanked by Liza Pye of Team Simon River Sports fame and Andrew Cameron of Team Salomon-Suunto, crack navigator Chris Pillar formed a new team, Salomon XT Wings. They were in tough against teams Axis Gear, Milton

Basement Racers, Beowulf, and Running Free, all of whom have several GHO events to their credit. The 25 km racecourse was the flattest edition of the Salomon Giant’s Rib Raid to date. But what was lost in elevation, was gained back by constant map and compass challenge and the incredibly rocky terrain of the Niagara Escarpment. In addition to the testy landscape, racers had to contend with the creativity of the GHO course designers. GHO events are never a straight forward run in the woods, they continually think up new

orienteering challenges to keep racers on their toes. This year’s event featured: • Come ‘n’ gO – Two sets of CP clusters that could be hit in any order at any time. This made for some interesting race strategies; • Lass-O – A circle of six, closely spaced CPs, only 3 of which had electronic punches. Miss one and you’ve got to retrace your steps to find the live CPs; • I.O.U. (In Out Under) – Finding a CP in a tight escarpment crevasse was a matter of following the written and visual instructions. Those without a keen eye or in too much of a rush would end up searching in the wrong place; and,

���� Walk the Line – Just follow the line on the map and find 3 CPs along the way. If at the end of the

line you’ve only hit two, start again. The pace off the start line was extremely fast at the top end and by CP2, just over 20 minutes into the race, only 2m40s separated the top 6 teams with GHO Runners leading the way. Forty minutes later at CP7, the field spread out with GHO Runners opening up a 4 minute lead on the chase pack of Salomon XT Wings, The Urban Athlete, GHO Runners, Foreigners, Axis Gear, and Salomon-Suunto. Hitting the Lass-O section, many teams moved too quickly, missing a CP along the ‘circle’. Getting back on track frustrated many teams and cost them precious time. The flat landscape required careful navi-gation as there were few features to clearly orient your map with. Another part of the race which provided an interesting twist was that a part of the map was a black and white, 3D, satellite photo. While the land was open and slightly rolling with distinct clusters of foliage, teams had to keep a close eye on where they were in relation to the CPs throughout this region.

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Circling back toward Rocky Ridge Ranch after negotiating the ‘I.O.U.’ section on the escarpment, teams had a chance to stretch their legs with a long section of trail running before hitting ‘Walk the

Line’. Salomon XT Wings and GHO Runners exchanged the lead several times with The Urban Athlete hot on their heels.

The last few CPs in the race were spaced apart by about a kilometre with several route options available between them. It was here that Salomon XT Wings made their move, putting an impressive 4m50s into eventual 2nd place GHO Runners. In so doing, Chris, Liza, and Andrew of Team Salomon XT Wings became the first COED team to ever win a Salomon Adventure Running Series event. Congratula-tions! Now that EVENT#1 in a quest to win the entry for this summer’s Saab Salomon Mountain-X Race is complete, teams move their attention to EVENT#2, Axis Gear Storm the Trent on May 10th where 75 SSMXR Points are up for grabs. At EVENT#1, up to 50 SSMXR Points were earned in relation to teams’ finishing times per category. However, at EVENT#2, a special handicap is in play for COED

teams, making the race for SSMXR Points very interesting. With a tight cluster of points earned so far, it should be a fierce battle! The top 5 teams after EVENT#1, ranked by SSMXR Points, are: Salomon XT Wings (COED) - 50.00 GHO Runners (MALE) - 50.00 Foreigners (MALE) - 47.64 The Urban Athlete (MALE) - 45.12 Axis Gear (COED) - 43.29 A complete listing of official results can be found at www.mxrcanada.ca.

By Pete Cameron. Photos by Mike Waddington

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Photos: Andrea Balacova Thanks to GVOC for permission to print the map

SUPPORT YOUR NATIONAL TEAM

A big thank you to all of you who purchased the 2008 calendars which featured various national team members. The proceeds are going towards the high performance pro-gram fund. The Team is planning a 2009 calendar and they have a photo contest!

Details can be found here: http://dl1.yukoncollege.yk.ca/brent

Click on photo contest!

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1. What are you up to these days? Life is becoming more and more busy – that's for sure. Of course, I'm first and fore-most a father and playing with my two kids (Isak 4 years and Lia 1 year) every day is my main priority. Recently, I became the new President of GHO, and we are in a very interesting and exciting phase of expanding, not only our Raid series, but also our lo-cal scene. I still do a fair bit of training, trying to average 6 hours per week or so, and luckily we have a good group of people here in Hamilton that I can train with, which helps. And, finally, with whatever time I have left over, I work. I am an intermediate teacher at a private school in Mississauga. A few years ago, I started an orienteering programme and I have currently about 50 -60 students involved. The director likes the sport and the school actually hired Patrick Goeres to come and do some mapping for us. I think there are a few schools in Canada, or elsewhere, that have their own orienteering maps. 2. What are your goals for 2008? Assuming you mean orienteering, and since I have done decent training since De-cember, and I hope to do well on the major North American races that are in driving distance from Hamilton. I don't have any specific goals yet, but to medal at the NAOC this fall would be nice, and I also hope to, finally, make my marathon debut this year. 3. What race are you looking forward to? Nothing has been decided yet, but as soon as it was announced their will be a sprint on the ocean floor in the Bay of Fundy, it immediately came up on my list “things-to-do-in-my-lifetime”, and I hope to be able to cross it out. Sounds too cool to miss. O-Ringen, in open mountain terrain, is another event I look forward to. 4. What was your best orienteering experience and why? That is a tough question, but one of them is Jukola 1997. My club back then, Savedalens AIK had a few key runners injured, and it was even questionable whether we should go or not, but our 30th placing is still the club's best achievement at Jukola and all the run-ners, especially the replacements ran over their capacity, and that includes me. I remember running with Yuri Omeltchenko for the last part, and I was just in trance. 5. What is your worst orienteering memory and why? Hmmm...for some reason the Ontario Orienteering Championships in 2000 comes to mind. I had an awful middle distance race, and I have repeatedly been reminded that after I had finished, I said I would retire from the sport. The course setter has moved several times since then, but I know where she lives. (EDITOR’S NOTE: Yes, I do remember you saying that Hans! )

In this section of LEGENDS we interview

three members of Canada’s past and present elite orienteering community.

We take you to central Canada get up close and personal with:

Hans Fransson Hamitlon GHO (current elite)

Emily Kemp Ottawa OOC

(junior)

Gord Hunter Ottawa OOC (past elite)

HANS FRANSSON

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Questions for Hans...continued.. 6. What was the best orienteering / training advice you have received? Since I haven't cracked the “code” completely yet, I hope I there are advices out there that just haven't been mentioned to me yet. Still wait-ing..But as a youth and junior runner, I was always encouraged to race as much as possible, and although, due to my answer in question one, I am more selective nowadays, I still try to follow that advice. 7. What is your favourite flavour of ice cream? Funny you would ask that question, because we discussed that at home recently. I have to give you two an-swers though, depending on the quan-tity of ice cream. If I want to eat a lot of ice cream, I'd choose mint chocolate, but in small doses, and I'm happy I can still surprise my wife, I prefer rum rai-sin. 8. What is your favourite map in Canada? Any Mike Waddington or Mark Adams map. No seriously. 9. Baseplate or thumb? I am an orienteering taliban and the baseplate is the natural choice for us.

1. Tell us a little about yourself. I'm 16 yrs old and in grade 10 at Nepean High School in Ottawa. I run cross-country in the fall, nordic skiing in the winter, and then track and ultimate frisbee in the spring. I play the trombone in 4 different bands, which means a lot of band practices each week, but I still really enjoy it. 2. What are your goals for 2008? I'm really looking forward to JWOC, but I'm not really sure what to expect. I guess my goal is to just run some really great races and have fun! Yay!! 3. What is your favourite orienteering memory? The one that stands out the most right now, is control 3, Day 2, at the Surebridge Challenge last year. It was a pretty long leg, and I had such a good route to it; everything was just perfect. Then I got into the control circle and I wasn't exactly sure where I was or which of the 40 rocks my control was on. So I was just jogging in the general direction of where I thought the control was and I looked down, and it was right there! I actually nearly stepped on it but I punched it instead and went bounding off into the woods full of happiness!!!! 4. What is your favourite terrain and why? If I were to choose one near Ottawa, it would have to be pretty much anywhere in the Gatineau Park in the fall be-cause all of the leaves are pretty much gone which makes for great visibility and fast running! 5. What is your worst orienteering experience? Falling into some swamps, running into a few too many barbed wire fences, getting totally lost, crummy terrain, some 20 minute controls; I can't remember one single course where it was all just horribly awful. Each one of my races is an exciting adventure which definitely makes things interesting... but still fun! 6. What was the best orienteering / training advice you have received? Stay in contact with the map!! I forget who told me that, but it's pretty much the basis of orienteering; if you're not in con-tact with the map, you're either lost, or about to get lost! 7 What is your favourite flavour of ice cream? Hmm... I think I'll have to go with just plain old chocolate!!! So yummy!!

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10 Questions for Emily...continued.. 8. How can Canada get more jun-iors orienteering? I think that to get more juniors into the sport, the clubs in each city need to have more publicity so that people ac-tually know that it exists, and then also have one heck of a junior program. Of course, this is definitely not always possible... but I think that that would work the best. 9. Baseplate or thumb? Thumb all the way!!! 10. Favourite orienteering song? Either Chariots of Fire for the more inspirational music, or Stronger by Kanye West for some pump up music.

1.What have you been up to these days?

Retired from teaching in 1999 but still working as a city councillor in Ottawa as I have since 1980.

2.Are you orienteering at all?

I took to orienteering in 1969 in part because it was a lifetime sport. I am still alive so I participate in about 25 events a year, ranging from local score meets to major A meets and champion-ships.

3. Are you competing in any other sports? What other inter-ests do you have?

XC and downhill skiing, golf, triathlons and a rare game of old boys rugby. Not many interests outside of sports.

4. What is your favourite orienteering memory?

Being top Canadian male at 1972 COC and being awarded an expense paid trip to the Swedish 5-Day Event by Bjorn Kjell-strom and Silva.

5. How did you get introduced to the sport?

By way of a summer outdoor education course at the Ontario College of Education, then later that Fall a student of mine in-vited me to an event being put on by his dad, Allan Gravelle.

6. What was your favourite Canadian terrain and why?

Pre ice storm Gatineau Park. The terrain is very intricate and prior to 1998 most of the woods were very clean for running. There is also an abundance of wildlife to be observed.

7. What was the best orienteering / training advice you have received?

When approaching controls on hillsides, if you have the choice come at it from above. They are much easier to see that way.

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Pralines and cream.

9. What result were you most proud of?

I have received 38 COC medals in the 31 years I have partici-pated. I am most proud of competing at 31 COCs and helping organize three others. Since 1971 I have only missed two COCs. That happened when they conflicted with the IOF con-gress.

10. Baseplate or thumb?

Baseplate. At my age I need the magnifying glass.

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Event Programme

• August 16 Fishbones sprint & middle distance • August 17 Fishbones long distance • August 21 Fun Sprint Hopewell Cape Rocks P.P • August 22 Model Event Alma, Fundy Park • August 22 WRE & COC sprint event Fundy Park • August 23 WRE & COC middle distance event Fundy Park � August 24 COC long distance event Fundy Park

Ancillary Activities

• August 17-20 Sass Peepre National Junior Training Camp • August 20-23 COF Conference • August 22 COC Banquet and Auction • August 23 COF Annual General Meeting � August 23 Ice Cream Social

The COF conference is organized by the COF Board of Directors. It's an ideal oppor-tunity to bring Canadian orienteers together to share information and to learn from inter-esting, topical speakers. It's also a great time to learn about and get involved with the priorities and projects of the COF and to provide your ideas and feedback. Ideas for future conference topics are always wel-come.

COACHING WORKSHOP – Community Coach Attendance required at all 3 sessions (9 hours total)

$30 fee to attend this workshop

Aug 20 - Part 1: 3-6 pm; Aug 21 - Part 2: 1-5 pm; Aug 22 - Part 3: 8:30 – 10:30 am

You are invited to participate in the first workshop for Community Coaches. The 9 hour course over 3 days will cover the theo-retical and technical components of this new coaching stream. The workshop will also include two "on terrain" practice coach-ing sessions. The pre-requisites are some orienteering experience and an inter-est in coaching new orienteers. For more information about this workshop, email Bill Anderson at bill dot gloria@rogers dot com

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Continued… ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND LANDOWNER RELATIONSHIPS Aug 20; Evening Session 1: 6:30 - 7:45 pm (No fee to attend) Hear a brief summary of the results of the environmental impact study carried out in Alberta after APOC 2002 Canada competition and the current research being done at the 2008 COCs. Followed by a discus-sion about ways to strengthen the relationship between orienteering and landowner/government. Bring your experiences and ideas in this area.

COURSE PLANNING TIPS AND TRICKS Aug 20; Evening Session 2: 8:00 – 9:15 pm (No fee to attend) This session is designed to offer some ideas improve your courses planning. They'll be lots of examples and specific ideas to course plan for the different disciplines of sprint, middle & long. This session is great for competitors as well - to help you “get inside the head” of your course setter.

FROM THE WORLD’S BEST – ROUTE CHOICE Aug 21; Evening Session 3: 6:00 - 7:15 pm (No fee to attend) Come and listen to World Middle distance and Relay Champion Holger Hott talk about how he makes route choices. What does he think about when he’s navigating? Nothing better than learning from the best. Bring your questions!

ORIENTEERING IN CANADA – PANEL DISCUSSION WITH THE COF BOARD OF DIRECTORS Aug 21; Evening session 4: 7:30 – 8:45 pm (No fee to attend) Because the AGM is focused on the business affairs of the COF, this session provides an opportunity to have a bigger picture discussion about orienteering in Canada and the priorities of the COF Board. This session will include an update on the officials program project. Come and learn what the COF Board is up to – and how you can contribute to the development and workings of orienteering in Canada.

COF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Saturday Aug 23 3:00 - 4:45 pm (No pre-registration required - all welcome to attend) The AGM is the one time of year when all the members of the COF (the provincial/territorial associations) gather to discuss and decide on the business tasks of the association (such as electing board members, making changes to the constitution, reviewing the financial statements, etc). All are welcome. If you are interested in a more general discussion about orienteering in Canada and how developing orienteering in Canada, please join us at the COF panel discussion Thursday night.

SPORTident WORKSHOP Saturday Aug 23 5:00 - 6:45 pm (No fee to attend) Siegfried Ritter - the person behind the SPORTident system - is attending this year's Canadian Champi-onships and we are pleased that he is willing to give a presentation on the latest information from SPOR-Tident. This workshop is aimed specifically at officials that actually operate SPORTident systems for clubs Workshop outline: www. orienteering.ca/pdfs/2008/SPORTident_workshop_2008_en.pdf Bring your SPORTident questions too.

To register and for more information: www.orienteering.ca

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Sass Peepre was a founding Father of orienteering in Canada in the 1960’s and 1970’s and this camp is organized in his honour in conjunction with the Canadian Orienteering Championships on an annual basis by a team of volunteers. The camp is partially subsidized by the Sass Peepre Fund, a fund held in trust by the Canadian Orienteering Federation for the purpose of supporting Leadership of Junior Orienteers.

The camp is suitable for all levels of junior orienteers (age 10-20) who wish to improve their skills. Camp participants generally perform extremely well at the Canadian Championships held 1-2 days after the camp. National Team members and parents form our team of volunteers.

This year’s Sass Peepre National Junior Training camp will be held in Saint John, New Brunswick. Ac-commodation will be in the residences of the University of New Brunswick Saint John. We hope all you enthusiastic juniors will come back to renew old friendships, spike more controls and learn new ways to exhaust your coaches.

Accommodation Will be at the Colin B Mackay Residence of the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. Participants will be in quad occupancy, with 4 people in one suite. Boys & girls will be in separate suites, of course.

Other events Fishbones (modeled on the low-key Barebones concept) is August 16 & 17 at Rockwood Park, which is 2-3 km from UNB Saint John. The Hopewell Rocks event on Thursday August 21 is a 2 hour drive from Saint John.

Camp Fee 190.00 which includes accommodation and meals. $50 of this fee is non-refundable. Consider contacting your own club for a subsidy.

Registration Send your registration form along with the fee, to the registrar. The fee and form must be received by the registrar by July 20th, 2008.

Camp Coordinator: Kitty Jones

The COF conference starts just after the Sass Peepre National Junior Training Camp finishes so partici-pation in both is feasible and encouraged. Www.orienteering.ca/conference.2008.htm

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Name_____________________________________________ Phone ______________________ Birthdate________________________________ Email ______________________ Parents’ Names ______________________________ ______ Email ______________________ Address_____________________________________ ______ Postal Code _________________ My travel plans to get to camp are: ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Emergency Contact (someone we can phone if we need to during camp) & Phone No. Health Plan Information ____________________________________________________ Health/Medical problems, including allergies ________________________________________________________________________ Please outline your orienteering experience on a separate page. Include the competitive orienteering course level that you nor-mally run in 2008 and any orienteering training camps you have attended in the past. Indicate areas you are hoping to improve. This information will be given to your coach(es) at the camp and will assist us in placing you in the correct group.

In consideration of the Canadian Orienteering Federation (COF) accepting enrolment of_______________________________ in the 2008 Sass Peepre National Junior (child’s name: please print) Training Camp for orienteering, I agree to release and indemnify and save harmless the Canadian Orienteering Federation and Orienteering New Brunswick and University of New Brunswick Saint John and any of their servants, agents, sponsors, volun-teers or employees from any and all claims or demands whatsoever which might be made against the Canadian Orienteering Federation and/or Orienteering New Brunswick and/or University of New Brunswick Saint John arising out of or in consequence of the above named participant in the 2008 Sass Peepre National Junior Training Camp. In the event of injury or any other emergency during the camp, I hereby authorize the staff (organizers, coaches and volun-teers) of the 2008 Sass Peepre National Junior Training Camp to act on my behalf for the health or safety of my child, should they be unable to contact us in a reasonable amount of time. I ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY for all such action taken on my child’s behalf, including financial responsibility in excess of benefits, provided for my child in any medical plan. ____________________________________ ______________________________ Signature of Parent/Guardian Date Privacy Consent: By providing the personal information on this form, you are consenting to COF’s collection and use of that information for the purposes of providing future orienteering training camps. We may retain this information until December 2009. ____________________________________ ______________________________ Signature of Parent/Guardian Date Please send this form, along with your fee to: Anne Teutsch, 1 Revol Road, Nepean, Ontario K2G 0B8 e-mail: anne@teutsch.ca

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1. park 4. east coast Barebones 8. NB club named after a mammal 12. farmed in the ocean 13. gateway to Fundy National Park 14. COC 2008 host 18. tasty marine scavenger 19. edilble long thin seashore plant popular in Albert County 22. spring musical green treat 24. summer seaside tasty plant 25. world ranking event 28. annual fund raiser at the banquet 29. endangered North Atlantic whale 30. gourmet seaweed 31. strange hill that defies belief

2. old way to protect a bridge 3. Club help with mapping and timing 5. bivalve that sees and swims 6. wild fruit is tastier 7. Saint John based O club (abrv.) 9. Mapping software used for event maps 10. hardwood forest in Fundy Park 11. course setting software used for COC2008 12. SI timing system 15. provincial fir tree 16. large cat reported in Fundy Park but not seen 17. tidal 20. falcon 21. falls that run both ways 22. an ONB club named after a bird 23. official purple flower of NB 26. bay 27. another name for cougar

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The Sage Orienteering Club of Kamloops BC held a great Canadian Ski O Champs. There was fierce and exciting competition, with Brian May winning the men’s race by less than one minute and Marta Green beating Marie-Catherine Bruno in the women’s race by a mere 17 seconds. Thanks to all of the or-ganizers for providing we participants a really enjoyable series of skiO races and for putting the effort into reviving the national Ski O Champs. The Cana-dian Ski Orienteering champs are to be held every second year (alternating with the US Champs), so the next National Champs will be in 2010. Maybe a club in the east would be interested in hosting then? Contact the COF for more information.

Ramblers Orienteering Club

REPORT: Ski Orienteering Event — Centre de Ski FAR HILLS, Val-Morin

February 17, 2008

For Ski-Orienteering, the Far Hills cross-country ski centre provided a complex network of well groomed tracks that wound around, and up-and-over, a multi-tude of hills, valleys and lakes. By Ocad measure, the terrain covered by the event included over 36 km of excellently machine-set tracks and packed skier-trails. Indeed, a more ideal location for a Ski-O would be hard to imagine. And, as the crowning gem to the event, snow conditions were as ideal as they possi-bly could be. Even the sun kept shining until the last skier had finished.

The person that made it all possible was Ramblers O Club member, Stephen Novosad. Stephen obtained a super-large-scale black-and-white map of the whole area, trekked back and forth across it many times, doing field-checking before and after the snows came, and then sat down to do the final computer drawing with our Ocad program to produce the finished O-map.

Stephen also set the courses and his design layouts showed considerable un-derstanding of the requirements for good course planning. Route choice possi-bilities were numerous on all three courses and certainly challenged everyone’s navigational skills, as well as their skiing prowess and fitness.

Despite the challenges, almost all participants seemed to do quite well. Even the beginners on the easiest course, many of whom were weekend ‘regulars’ at the Ski Centre, had credit-able results. At 3.2 km (as the crow flies) the course was not long but it did require smart map reading in order to successfully find the nine controls situated along it’s circuitous route.

Lise Côté, a first-time Orienteer, but a regular at Far Hills, completed the course in 0:33:30 and then went on to ski Course Two in 1:21:35.

Simon Denier had the fastest time (1:08:55) on the 6 km (8.5 km probable best route) #2 Middle-Distance course. Dominique Dufresne and 12-yr-old son, Alexis, were second in 1:56:05.

The 7.25 km (10 km PBR) Long Course had several exciting finishes. Francis Lambert had a fast 1:18:51 that put him ahead of some good times by Mike Bole and Anthony Berkers. But then Francis Falardeau skated in with a time of 1:09:32 to take what appeared to be the winning place – at least until locally un-known Margus Hallik flew to the finish after being on the course for only 0:55:11. It turns out that Margus, was / still is(?) a member of the Estonian National Ski-Orienteering Team! He is also a member of the Ottawa O Club and drove down for the day with wife, Käti, who was the fastest woman of the day.

Congratulations to the Halliks…and to everyone else who participated.

Meet organizers included Michael Bole and Anthony Berkers, who picked up flags, Gloria Charlow who handled Registration all day, John who acted as event controller and, of course, Stephen Novosad who did everything else ! Thank you, Stephen.

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