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Thoughts on US Orienteering
My side trip to the Buffalo Orienteering Festival (see previous posts) in the USA set me thinking about US orienteering, as compared to Israel. First, lets look at the relative sizes: The black arrow is the distance I covered to get from my business destination to the event. Basically, it…
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was in the same small corner of the USA, but I still had to drive 5 hours, and that was only in one direction!In Israel, every one-day national event has 400-500 participants. This two-day event (which was an official USOF "A-meet") had 200-250, and I noticed that there were very few juniors. The organisation was excellent, from both a logistical and technical point of view, and the terrain was very good as well.The point here is that in Israel, every orienteering event is within (driving) range, so all 60-70 events during a season have large numbers of participants. In the…
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