Kings Mountain National Military Park

From the Meet Director – Walter Siegenthaler:

What a wonderful day for orienteering at Kings Mountain National Military Park! Sunshine most of the day with a high of 70 degrees. We had a great turnout with a total of 110 starts; but the great turnout also created some problems.

We exceeded the maximum number of people allowed on our Special Use Permit and were not the only ones enjoying the nice weather.  There were many regular visitors coming to the park as well which, together with our crowd, overfilled the parking lot.

For future events at this location – we will put strict limitations in place to avoid interfering with non-orienteering visitors. It’s easy to limit the number of maps available for the event, but if we get an order for one map and 5 or 6 people show up to go out on that map, we get a much higher number of participants than the number of maps sold.

Special kudos to Cooper Goodman.  He volunteered to help out at the registration table before he went out on his first ever orienteering course and, as a novice, he completed the Orange course in 68:17 (the fastest time on Orange!).

Special thanks to 1stSgt Daryl Hayes and the cadets from Hough High School in Cornelius.  They handled the registration and timing table for all JROTC participants. What a big help!

Also a big thank you to Dan Davis, David Alexander, Cooper Goodman, and my wife Lissa for their help with manning the COK table and helping out with instruction. At the end of the day there is always the task of picking up all the controls. Thank you to Chris and Barry Shoemaker, Mike Davis, and Dan Davis for helping with this task.

Putting on an orienteering meet is quite a task – so please consider volunteering to help out at one of the next meets.