Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Regular Troop Meeting Monday, Nov. 12 at 7:00pm - Legion
Orienteering Results:
Third Place - Yellow Course

Thomas Hartley, Greg Arlauckas, and Mr. A, representing Troop 140, placed THIRD in the Yellow (Intermediate) Course at the ROC Orienteering Meet. The Meet was held on Sunday, November 4 at Oatka Creek Park, west of Scottsville. They polished off the 1.96 km (1.2 mi.) course in 17:44 minutes. They held on to first place for most of the day and were the time to beat. They competed with 34 other teams and individuals including other Boy Scout Troops, Girl Scouts, high schools and seasoned regulars.

Complete Meet results can be found by copy/pasting the following link in your URL:

http://roc.us.orienteering.org/results/results2007_1104.shtml

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Orienteering at Oatka Creek Park on Sunday
Excellent opportunity to practice
your Map & Compass skills.


The next ROC meet will be on Sunday, Nov 4 at Oatka Creek
Park, just west of Scottsville. Starts from Noon to 2:00pm.

There will be three courses. The WHITE is 1.5 Km (.93 mi.)with 6
controls. The YELLOW has 7 controls and is 2.5 Km (1.55 mi.)
long. The ORANGE has 13 controls and is 4.8 Km (2.98 mi.) in
length. Fee is $6.00 ($3.00 for ROC members)

http://roc.us.orienteering.org/

The ROC is still in need of volunteers for this meet,
especially registration, food, and a few more for
pick-up and results typing. Also the trail run is
approaching, Saturday, 11/10, and we need volunteers
(8:30AM) for greeters(2), registration(3-4),
food(couple), parking(2), crossing guards(2), and
water stop(2).

Please contact Sandra Lomker, Volunteer Coordinator,
at slomker@frontiernet.net or one of the Meet
Directors: Rick & Dayle Lavine (Oatka) at
rdlavine@frontiernet.net or Larry Zygo (Trail Run) at
Lzygo@aol.com.