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Dan Chissick - Israel - Winter has arrived (or so they say)

Winter has arrived (or so they say)

The first day of the Israeli Championship has finished successfully, at least from the organisers point of view. The best part was the weather - a forecast for very low temperatures and the wettest spell this winter, starting this morning, failed to materialise: temperatures stayed steady and the rain was…
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intermittent. Tomorrow was expected to be a total catastrophe, with a very heavy storm, but now it looks like we might get lucky.After some hard work yesterday afternoon placing controls and water, today I had more time to take pictures and enjoy the event, with almost 70 foreign orienteers from 12 countries (maybe a record here?), and of course 400 local orienteers. We had a few glitches, of course - the spectator control area was more slippery and dangerous than I expected, and so was the track into the parking (but we had a reserve area close by). Lots of…

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