Sunday, May 26, 2013

My first orienteering meets - 1976

I first orienteered at Camp Bromelsick (Boy Scout Camp at Clinton Lake before there was a Clinton Lake) as a class outing in George McCleary's cartography 101 course in the fall 1976.  Don't have the map.
George drew up a better black & white map of Shawnee Mission Park than the USGS photocopy PTOC was using (or was it the Johnson County Outdoor Society?).  He did this in the middle of a geography faculty meeting.  It was a more accurate map for the Nov 21, 1976 meet.  George's cartography students and his Cub Scouts did better than the KU ROTC guys using the USGS reprint.  I copied the course from the master map in pencil (off to the right at shelter #2 on Small Lakes Rd).