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Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Weekend's champs
While most of the O' world will be following the Nordic Open Champs, this weekend is also the U.S. middle and long distance champs in New York.
The races are at a place called Winona where the U.S. Champs were held a couple of years ago.
Winona is a great place for orienteering. Here is a bit of the map.
There probably won't be a lot of route choice, but the navigation can be tricky. Relocating is difficult, so keeping reasonable contact should pay off. In places the visibility is a bit low. The forest has a bit of deadfall, so you've got to pick your legs up and it can be tough to run and feel like you're moving well.
If I remember correctly, the map is nice; maybe a bit over drawn in places. The mapper used a lot of form lines to show the subtle land forms.
I'm running M21 for the middle race and M35 for the long race.
