2003 Practice Rogaine Results
A 26km 26 control rogaine course was set up from Aug7 to Nov7 in Wilton, Mason, and Greenville NH. This years control clues spelled out a riddle to solve. Also, one control had a patch cache to pick out an orienteering patch and had a sign in register. The riddle clues are: 1) XX 2) XII 3) US 4)PRES 5) WIFE 6) MIDDLE 7) NAME 8) SUR 9) NAME 10) OF US 11) XX 12) GYM 13) NAST 14) OF LX 15) XIII 16) & LX 17)XII 18)O-GA 19) MES. 20) LIVE 21) AUT 22) HOR 23) 2ND 24) WIFE 25) 1ST 26) NAME see if you can solve it email Darrell for confirmation of answer Completed control cards received from: 8/25/03 Brian Rohde, First finisher!!!! but did not solve riddle 9/10/03 Mark Stevens and Faye Doria, first to solve riddle!!!! 10/12/03 Lex and Pete Bundschuh, did not solve riddle 10/13/03 Steve Fitzsimmons and Tom Lane, solved riddle! 10/27/03 Bob Walsh solved riddle! 11/28/03 John, Terri, Paul, Margaret Magnus, solved riddle! Emails received from: Linda Spofford and Bev Roach found controls 4,2,10,6,12, couldn't find 5 Bob Walsh on 10/12/03 completed all 26 controls! order was 9,13,19,17,25,26,21,11,15,23,4,2,10,12,6,8,16,20,14,22,24,18, 5,3,1,7. total time 8hrs 59min! This is the sign in register at control 25: 8/16/03 13:00, Faiman Family, 1st control visited 8/21/03 4:30 pm, McDougall and Brian Rohde, Last control visited - we're tired! got all the controls - first time I've done this. Great Course - saw a lot of beautiful country, a moose and a lot of interesting features. Thanks. 9/3/03, Faye Doria and Mark Stevens, on our second loop - this is our 7th control. Great Course. 9/4/03 16:30, 4th control, Bill and Charlotte Gray 10/12/03 8:54, 5 controls so far. Great Day. Thanks! Bob Walsh 10/12/03 11:23am, Thanks! This is the last checkpoint and we did them all. We = Tom Lane and Steve Fitzsimmons. Funny how the last site held the patches. We had a great time. We also did about half (or more) at night after our sales meeting. Great Fun. (directors note: Tom and Steve were up from Texas for business meetings) 11/8/03 12:15pm, Martin Strosser, This is my 8th control. Would have found them all but I just recovered from a motorcycle crash. This was a wonderful and beautiful. Can't wait till next year. Directors note: Lex and Pete Bundschuh found control 25 but couldn't locate the patch cache) Other participants but with no reported results: Alar Ruutopold Unknown couple spotted by Bob Walsh Meet Director Darrell Scott