okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Friday, October 14, 2005
Some quick notes
I'll just write a few quick notes before I get back to sitting in front of the TV watching tonight's Nascar race.
Good questions
Patrick asked a couple of good questions in a comment to yesterday's post:
What other places in the U.S. do you think need an orienteering club? And how does that place go about getting an orienteering club?
I haven't thought carefully about these questions. It seems to me like the ideal places for O' clubs are towns/cities like Lawrence (or a bit larger), where you've got a fairly active population and a university (it'd be nice if Lawrence had some better terrain). Columbia, Missouri, fits the bill. I suspect there are lots of Lawrence-like towns in the upper midwest (Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, etc) that would be good places for clubs.
Carbondale, IL, used to have a club and is a great place for one. They've got plenty of good terrain just outside of town.
I don't know how places go about getting clubs.
Norwegian page in English?
One of my favorite O' pages is Oystein Kvaal Osterbo's. He posts lots of maps and photos. He's Norwegian and writes his page in Norwegian. But, when I looked today, I saw that today's two entries are both written in English. I don't know if that he plans to keep the page in English or not. English or Norwegian, his page is worth visiting.
posted by Michael |
8:22 PM
