How are things going with the Haskell campus project? Shall we contact campus officials for a date?
meangene
 

I'm curious: was this provoked by the discussion in my training log on Attackpoint? It's noticeable that RIT, SMU, and UW are home to well-known Attackpointers.

RIT appears to own some actual forest south of the main road loop. I'm not sure how good it would be for orienteering - it's pretty flat and might be swampy like a lot of land along this part of the Genesee - but it's at least potentially interesting. There are a lot of basically abandoned overgrown fields too - less good.
 

That's kick-@$$!

Take a lookit my novelty, too:

www.stores.lulu.com/fido

God bless you.
Be at peace.
 

I dont really understand the facination with these campuses, they seem awfully routine and straightforward. Now, Thierry running through the italian hill town - there was a lot of rich complexity and route choice there, that involved a lot of interpretation of contour, etc. By the way, I thought Thierry ran too far to the left, because in the end he had to come back up.
 

William, yes it was inspired by the discussion on your log at Attackpoint.

Anonymous, the campus terrain isn't as fun as those Italian hill towns, but it is still fun. And while the terrain isn't especially difficult, it actually makes for more interesting orienteering than a lot of the terrain around Kansas City (the campus maps have more route choice options and more features-per-square-Km of area). I guess that says something about how boring the orienteering terrain around here is.

Campus maps also make good venues for people to try orienteering for the first time.
 

Gene

No date for Haskell yet. I'm putting together some basemap materials, but I haven't set foot on the campus yet.
 

Hmmm, a great way to jazz up those campus sprints would be to have controls inside the buildings as well. have the first floor plan printed on the map. my old school had tunnels connecting buildings and exterior walkways that were not quite secret, but not common knowledge either.

now that would be a way to build interest in orienteering. 3-d maps that duplicate the experience of a video game - but in real life!