Discussion: By "US or Australia", do you j...

By "US or Australia", do you just mean some generic places with little or no orienteering?

I would think more like - 'places far away enough from Finland, but still with decent orienteering' ?

"A continent with decent orienteering but no Emit users". But also Africa would do just fine, it looked pretty cool from Tarifa.

Must go running now, I'll need to put my OrinteeringGalgary cap on, so no one will be able to identify and hang me for supporting SI ;-]

Do you have an Orienteering Calgary cap? Is it just from trading or have you actually been there?

The International Man Of Mystery and his FWOC bottle. Photo is taken in Sweden by road 71 between Borlänge - Malung.

OK - well, I spent almost one whole year in Calgary in the 'dark ages' (1982). I was there with some friends mapping the first time in 1977 and then kept going back for a couple of summers - so I have a lot of fond memories from Western Canada.
FWOC bottles weren´t invented at that time, but the club was very active (especially socially) from the very beginning. I was a member of the now non-existent club Calgary Kangaroos (where they got the kangaroos from I don´t know?).
Unfortunately I haven´t been back to Canada since 1985 even if I have been wanting to go again on several occasions - there´s always later...

I have never been there. The thing is, I am too lazy to train well and I try to compesate it by getting my hands on the best possible equipment there is. It doesn't matter if the a best water bottle in the world is the club bottle of an O club from a distant place far, far away from here. If it's the best, so I need to get one.

The cap, "mössan", really is excellent, I always use it while training orienteering in cold conditions. It's so then you can easily keep in under head lamp and also so deep and slippery branches doesn't easily wipe it away fom your head.

So you might ask how did I managet to get those? If equipments are as superior as these really are, I always do what ever it takes. This time it wasn't difficult, I asked them could I just buy these, they said no, memebers only. Then I asked could I join the club, they told no, my sosial skills weren't good enough for their standards, a troublemaker like me does not qualify. So I asked what do I need to do for them to get these? After thinking a moment they said they like me to write them a web based system for drawing viewing orienteering routes and dot races. I guess they just wanted get rid of me and tried to give me an impossible task. It took years, but I finally got it done and now am a happy Orienteering Calgary cap user.

This has to be one of the funniest comments i've read on AP! More people should read your log.

True story always beats fiction hands down. But personally I found that FWOC history very funny. The stroy of A. Zissos and the boulder field control sounds interesting, where I can read more about it?