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Another from Mike Cooper's video series: the Short Advanced course at the Saltese Uplands, part of the 8-day Pacific Northwest Orienteering Festival; June, 2022.
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In which we periodically examine how art imitates life and life imitates orienteering.
by Peter Amram
NEOCer Barbara Lamay has suggested that the travails of a resourceful, if imaginary, lad navigating a perplexing maze might interest orienteers. I was hesitant to engage, because mostly all that I knew about the Harry Potter phenomenon was that Emma Watson went to Brown University. (Go, Bruno!) Nevertheless, from the local public library I extracted The Goblet of Fire, a tome of some 734 pages (thus only slightly longer than the NEOC meet director’s packet in the mid-1980s).
Following Barbara’s guidance, I turned to Chapter 31 (“The Third Task”). Soon I was looking up so many definitions and references that I was reminded of the joke among classicists that a person can read either all extant Latin and Greek literature or all that 19th century German scholars wrote about Latin and Greek literature, but no-one can possibly do both. Similarly, it seems possible to absorb the entire Potter canon but not also the immense supporting material provided by Wikipedia and assorted fandom sites. Below, therefore, are the impressions of a reader who frequently did not understand what the hex going on.
If you have a fantastic photo from Rocky Woods or Bigelow Hollow, or can snap a beautiful scene at Pearl Hill this Sunday, contact the fall point series coordinator, Kristin Hall to arrange submission.
We are looking for an autumn scene featuring a control and some fall colors for the Point Series prizes. If you submit the winning photo, you'll get one of the prizes, too! Here's the image from last year, to give you an idea. Photos with humans will be accepted if the human has given permission for their image to be used.