Please enjoy the following whimsical excerpts pulled from past issues of the Tucson Orienteering Club newsletter!
Ask the Expert
(published in May 1996 issue, with no attribution)
Q. How can I make sure I’m holding my map right side up?
A. The right side has the funny drawing on it. The other side is blank.
Q. What is a “control”?
A. Control is something a meet director loses about 9:15 at a 9:00 meet.
On Orienteering
(published in November 1996 issue, with no attribution)
To find the control is the name of the game
Third Sunday each month, it’s more of the same.
Reentrants and saddles, streambeds and spurs,
Through catclaw and shindaggers, socks full of burrs,
Sunburned and scratched, yet ahead of the bunch,
Exhausted but triumphant, “I got every punch.”