FIRST PLACE IN ORIENTEERING!

On Saturday, 20 November, twenty seven Middletown High School NJROTC cadets braved the 50 degree weather and clear skies to participate in the Hudson Valley JROTC Orienteering Championship sponsored by the Hudson Valley Orienteering Club.  Congratulations to all the cadets who participated and who didn't get lost in the woods or eaten by a bear and especially to Cadets Michael Robertson and David Geer who, as a team, came in first place in the yellow course competition, the more difficult of the two courses. We also placed third in the white course (congrats to Cadets R. Crossland and T. Hudson) and second overall.  All participants completed training and a test and are now entitled to wear the NJROTC orienteering ribbon.  If you are interested, orienteering is a sport in which the competitors either hike or run using a detailed map and compass to find checkpoints placed in the woods.  Extremely competitive courses are often miles long and sometimes last overnight and take place in winter weather to add extra stress to the competition.  The course in which we participated was 2.3 kilometers in length through the very hilly ground of the Pelton Pond area of New York's Clarence Fahnestock State Park.   The WOD for 22 and 23 November is altruistic.  Altruistic is an adjective meaning unselfishly generous; concerned for others.  Example:  Giving to charity is an altruistic act.  Just in--ORIENTEERING PHOTOS:

First Place Winners, Yellow Course:  Cadets Michael Robertson and David Geer (Any resemblence to Jim Carey and Jeff Daniels, stars of "Dumb and Dumber" is purely coincidental!)

The whole ugly bunch

Pelton Pond

A stream feeding Pelton Pond, typical of the terrain we encountered.

Clueless and Clueless-er