Saturday, May 19th dawned clear and cool, with the promise of excellent
 conditions for orienteering.  By 11AM, temperatures had begun to reach into
 the 60's, and the winds began to pick up, but conditions were still
 excellent for those hardy souls who arrived to orienteer.  It was time to up
 close and personal with outcroppings of the Idaho Basolith.
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The Advanced course started out with three long, pretty non-technical legs,
 mostly offering a trade-off between long trail runs or shorter runs through
 much rougher terrain.  After the meet discussions showed the trail runs to
 be far and away the faster choice on these legs.   The leg to #4, in the
 bottom of a gully, was more technical.  Those who noticed the nearby power
 line had a much easier time of it.  Leg #5 dropped down into and across
 Hull's Gulch itself, requiring a bit of skill at reading the contours.  Legs
 6, 7, and 8 all gave tradeoffs between running cross-country (contouring or
 not) and dropping back into and out of Hull's Gulch to take advantage of the
 trail.  Legs 6 and 8 both turned out to be faster on the trail, while leg 7
 was a bit closer, with the cross-country route seeming to take the prize.
 Sergey almost broke a sweat blazing his way through the course.  Dave, Jeff,
 and Neil made the next three places quite a contest, although Neil managed
 to get a bit thrown by the strange vegetation around control #3.  Bob &
 Karin, coming out Sunday, took a more leisurely approach to the course
 (given the winds Sunday, they probably belly-crawled most of the course).
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The Intermediate course shared the first three legs with the Advanced course,
 then took a short-cut through a long reentrant complex (where control #4
 lurked) into Hull's Gulch.  Leg #5 cut across Hull's Gulch, with some
 technical map reading needed to chose the correct reentrant for #5.  Leg #6
 was shared with the Advanced course leg #8.  Dasha & Brian took the "take
 time to smell the flowers" approach, saving all their energy for a
 photogenic sprint to the finish.
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Our next local meet (hosted by Jeff Black) will be at Stewart Gulch West on
 Saturday, June 30th.   The preceding Monday 6/25 the City of Trees
 Orienteering Club will be hosting a relay meet at Cle Elum, Washington, as
 part of the Pacific North West Orienteering Festival.
 See <a href="http://netnow.micron.net/~velichko/PNWOF2001/">Pacific Northwest Orienteering
 Festival 2001 (PNWOF2001)</a> Web site for more information.
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Beginner    2.2km    70m climb   6 controls
                              Time  
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No takers


Intermediate   4.5km   300m climb  6 controls
                              Time
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Dasha Velichko & Brian        92:35


Advanced   5.7km    325m climb   8 controls
                              Time
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Sergey Velichko               40:02
David Bergset                 56:37
Jeff Black                    69:33
Bob & Karin Didisse          119:00
Neil Olson                    62:19  (Missed #3)

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Andy Hill