Hi Mike, Thanks for volunteering! I will be requesting a two hour slot on Sat. Sept 24 (prefered) with Sat Sept 17 as alternate. I've sent Jerry the flyer...
Hi Andrea, That sounds great. I'll plan on some of us just being there generally. What should we expect to do, and is there anything we can do in advance? Mike...
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Una Smith
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Aug 9, 2011 4:44 pm
There are some really good books about teaching orienteering. They all emphasize starting with fun exercises that build orienteering skills such as orienting...
I'm not sure yet, as I am in the beginning of the planning stage, but because the workshop will be in a "meet" format, we will need help with helping folks...
HI Una, I am creating a workshop that is, in essence, a mini-O meet. So the participants will fill out registration/waiver forms, "select" a course, get a...
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Una Smith
una.smith@...
Aug 9, 2011 5:57 pm
I understand your plan, Andrea. I conducted the same kind of workshop myself, once, here in Los Alamos. Never again. My concern is that in the short time...
Ah! Good suggestion. I had planned to have an easy course and a more difficult one outside in the grassy area alongside the building. How about sending them...
It sounds like a super course, Andrea. After it has been tried and any bugs worked out, how about NMO making it available, at least as an outline, to other...
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Una Smith
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Aug 9, 2011 6:53 pm
Why outside? One reason I like the idea of doing it in the store is the confinement, so people don't go far astray. Also the short sight lines enable a...
Orienteer's, If anyone is interested in helping with the upcoming 2 day ARDF championships in September please email me direct. Areas that we can use help...
Hi all, Exciting news! There will be an Orienteering meet in conjuction with an Adventure Race (NMARC) on Oct. 1. In addition, there will be a Mt Bike...
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Una Smith
una.smith@...
Sep 15, 2011 4:55 pm
Some radio orienteering competitors are arriving in Albuquerque by airplane tomorrow (Friday), and need to be shuttled to the competition hotel. Volunteers are...
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Una Smith
una.smith@...
Sep 15, 2011 5:43 pm
Mike Pendley says enough volunteers have come forward for the competition this weekend. Andrea Carvey needs more volunteers for the orienteering meet near ABQ ...
Orienteers I was contacted tonight by a person from a horse riding club that wanted someone to give a talk on map reading at their club at the Edgewood ...
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Una Smith
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Oct 24, 2011 7:50 pm
New Mexico Orienteers, This weekend as a NM Search and Rescue volunteer I responded to a search for an overdue hunter in the Bill Humphries Wildlife Management...
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Una Smith
una.smith@...
Nov 1, 2011 7:03 pm
Hello fellow New Mexico Orienteers, NMO has received a query from Ross Bergman, head of physical education at Bosque School in Albuquerque. At a teacher...
... That sounds like a very good idea to me. Count me in. Jerry From: NMOrienteers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:NMOrienteers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Una...
I can help out but not on Thanksgivng weekend. There is a guy named Bosque Bill who has gpsed the trails in the Bosque and you can download the tracks off his...
It's that time of year again to do the paperwork for our clubs Orienteering USA re-charter. Because I don't have all the waver forms from our 2011 meets, I...
All are welcome to join the New Mexico Adventure Racing Club where we will teach map and compass skills that are applicable to succeed on orienteering courses....
Join NMARC for a little winter navigation fun and look for some checkpoints hidden in the woods. 2 courses, long and short, will be offered. The long course...
All I was just contacted by Open space and advised that there is a new open space area they acquired called RT 66 open space. This is a 66 acres on old RT 66...
The open space flyer is attached. Jerry From: Gerald Boyd [mailto:wb8wfk@...] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 4:12 PM To: 'NMOrienteers@yahoogroups.com';...
Sounds intreguing! I'm going to be relatively busy this summer, but could squeeze in some mapping here and there. -Andrea To: wb8wfk@...;...
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Una Smith
una.smith@...
Mar 29, 2012 7:54 pm
New Mexico Orienteers, Here is how NTOA opens the topic of orienteering merit badges for boy scouts: http://www.ntoa.com/bsa/head_boyscouts.htm NTOA has huge...
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Una Smith
una.smith@...
Mar 29, 2012 8:22 pm
I sent an announcement to our e-mail announcements list of roughly 300 subscribers, giving the dates of upcoming orienteering meets of our neighboring clubs in...
I am trying to find someplace in Albuquerque that has a meeting room so that we can have our annual meeting. Will check with a possible venue where our local...
