Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Wednesday, May 28, 2003 Angry homeowners and other hasslesApparently an angry homeowner caused a bit of trouble at a meet out in California last weekend. Here is a report that was posted at Attackpoint...Short course at Tahoe. I was pretty sloppy out there. Had a run in with an angry homeowner. He blocked me from punching in at the last control. I finally did, after a few choice words, then he chased me in to the finish. He felt that one of the controls was too close to his house. I can only recall one run-in with a property owner when I was orienteering. The event was the U.S. Team Trials in Ohio (1995, I think). One leg had an option that took you across the park boundary and into an area with some houses. It wasn't marked as out-of-bounds (though it did require you to cross a park boundary that was marked on the map) and looked like a good route. Half way through, I bumped in to a man with a dog who was clearly annoyed with orienteers running through an area next to his house. I wasn't sure if the land was private or not, but I didn't want to get a guy with a dog mad at me. I turned around and ran back. It probably cost a couple of minutes. I've heard stories of gun-toting property owners stopping orienteers. That wouldn't be fun. I've had much worse luck with dogs than with property owners. I've been bitten by dogs enough times that I'm quite cautious around them. In the relay race a couple of days ago, Nadim and I bumped in to a couple of hikers with three or four dogs. The dogs looked harmless...but, I didn't want to go running by them. I walked until we'd passed them. posted by Michael | 9:41 PM 
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