SOUTHERN
		MICHIGAN
			ORIENTEERING
				CLUB

Meet location: Crooked Lake

Date: November 2, 2008

Director: Laurent and Diane Fournier

More than fifty orienteers and several hundred horse riders enjoyed the woods of Waterloo Recreation Area last Sunday, proving that intelligent and good willing people (only one or two bow hunters did not enter into this category) can actually share public land without any conflict. The race was held on the north side of the Pond Lily Lookout map.

Conditions were a little bit worst than expected, with temperature in the low 50's and a few drops or rain between 1pm and 2pm. The sun only showed up at the end of the race. Thanks for Rick Waldo, Mark Voigt, Alan Oprsal, and Boris Ardeev for picking up the controls after the race

All race levels were highly competitive. Kalish group won the White course by a mere 2 minutes, while Peterson and Garrisons shared the win in Yellow (they actually raced together). On the Orange race, Art Oastaszinski won pretty easily. On the Green race, Mielock also won easily, but Bill Luitje took a risky option on the last stretch (crossing directly the marsh from the last control to the finish) to win the second place over Mike Keating by only 10 seconds. On the Red course, Rick Waldo mentioned a technical problem on his favorite compass (the needle got blocked for a while) that cost him "about 1 minute" between control 7 and 8. This problem turned out to be costly, as he lost the race by less than 30 seconds!!!

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Modified November 4, 2008, by Robert Messer.