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Family course
Today I was organising an event on Mt. Carmel, on a map I made a couple of years ago (based on an old map from 1990). This local event was a great success, with 170 participants on two competitive courses and 70+ families on the family course.In my opinion the…
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family course (displayed below) was the todays highlight. We always have such a course, which is non-competitive (no time-keeping), relatively simple, and suitable for families with young children. In typical Israeli terrain, this means staying close to (or upon) the forest paths, and in many cases there is no choice but to plan a boring circuit of the main paths around the assembly area.This time, I had mapped the valley which cuts through the map in some detail, especially for this type of course. The path through there (controls 1-6) is very easy orienteering, so we added fake controls so…
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