Saved kitten from road side

Saved kitten in a pocket.
Dee, Grover Everett & I were biking this morning on the path near 6th & Geo Williams Way & found these two kittens abandoned along the highway. The 1st gray kitten was willing to stay in my back pocket until we got to the corner and called Grover's wife, Carolyn to come by with the car. Headed out again and heard meowing in the same spot and found "whitey" who wouldn't stay in a jersey pocket. Called Carolyn for help. Both kittens are doing fine now and have been adopted by friends of the Everetts.
They're about 4 weeks. Cruel people in this world; they wouldn't have lasted long in the heat, to say nothing of wandering out onto Highway 40.

Psycho Wyco 2011

2011 Psycho Wyco

Snow packed with 6 inches of snow at the start then snow packed trails the rest of the way. Map attached. Ended up finishing in 2 hrs 8 min. Slower than last year.

Gateway Runt (Mar 7, 10

Map from the Gateway Runt (shorter than the Grunt) - 9.5k if you went to all the controls. You were allowed to skip one and chose #13. Bad, bad error to 4.

Mar 6, '10 Hawn Green Route

My first Quick Route map: Green course at Hawn SP.

mizzou.us

The Journal-World today reported that if you go to www.mizzou.us, you get to another website. "Word of the switch reached the Mizzou Alumni Association (www.Mizzou.com) Monday afternoon, drawing a few expressions of surprise, disappointment and, perhaps, maybe a little envy."
Going to be a fun year. . .

Hmong Haiku

A Hmong then two Hmongs
A Hmong among many Hmongs
Minneapolis

(composed before seeing Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino.
OK - "Detroit, Michigan" instead of Minneapolis)

My Univ of Kansas orienteers?

I came across the Vulcan O' Club's Orienteering Workbook (2004) with a reference to the KU Champs on page 9:


The Sport Evolves
After fading away around 1971-72, West Point orienteering was rejuvenated in 1975 by U.S. Army orienteering founder Bud Fish. The cadets have dominated U.S. intercollegiate competition from 1978 to the present except for 1983-85 when Gene Wee's University of Kansas orienteers won. Bill Gookin has been an orienteering organizer in the San Diego area since 1969. The San Francisco Bay area club with the leadership of Joe Scarborough and the clubs around the Seattle, Washington, area grew rapidly as the top western orienteering areas in the 1980's. . .



I assembled the runners and they did all the work. . . Many are still OK members 25 years later. Maybe KU in some other sport can win a national championship this weekend down south. . .

Camp Prairie Schooner (Sept 16, 07)

Sunday - day 2 - got the chills the night before and almost missed this one. Slow start and didn't have a great plan on route selection. At gun, thought either 3 or 2 would be a good starting point; opted for 2, got crowded at 1, so I skipped (why?) 1 figuring I might not finish the course and call it quits about 30 min. Anyway, Larry Rink missed the turn to go to 15, so Paul Clatterbuck and I headed north to 15, then Larry zoomed by us. I couldn't keep up with either of them and decided picking up 16 would save me the climb later (west to 16, then retraced steps to trail to 15, then almost missed the faint trail to get to 21. Area is very reminiscent of Camp Naish with faint trails, clusters of hue rocks broken off from outcrop lines; lots of campsite pads and small buildings. Mary Jones left 21 before I did on her way to 24. I was trying to slide up to 18, but ended up verring on to the trail to 24; then up to 18, 23, 14, 19, up 13, trail to 20, 8, 11, followed Kelly Sumner to 10, then 17, then on way to 22 saw the stupidity in getting 17 first, then fearing the darker green up from 17, took the trail by 10 and all the trails to 7. Then seeing I had a lot of time left to finish in under an hour, went to 9 (clearly botched the route choices), then 6, 5, 4, 3, and 1.

49:11. 3rd. OK for a sicky.

Harrisonville Score O

Having only entered 2 O' meets last season, the 2007 season started off with 2 event the same weekend (Sept 15-16). The Jerry Tabb Road Trip Orienteering Event was held at the Harrisonville (MO) city park - a 1:7500 map made by Kelly Sumner - and the event was listed as not a PTOC event, so refreshing to have a new meet director and event sponsor.

My route: 24-23-22-21-18, then wanted to go to 20, but made a parallel error going to 19, then headed east like I was leaving 20 for 19. Mucked around before figuring out the problem. Then continued: 20-19-17-16-14-13-12-11-10-9, ran back to 5, then was sloppy and missed 6 and 7, so headed to 8, then picked up 7-6-4-3-2-1.