December 8-9 2012 The Florida Orienteering Championships and the Bubba Goat Long Distance race were held at Lake Louisa State Park

1. 2012 Florida Orienteering
Championships
and
Bubba Goat Long Distance Race
Lake Louisa
State Park
Florida

2. Lake Louisa
State Park
normally
belongs to the
wildlife . ……

3. December 8-9, 2012
Orienteers
Were
Welcomed
To
Lake
Louisa
State Park

4. We came from many countries
USA
Brazil
Canada Finland Australia and Great Britain

5. 100 entries for the
FLO Champs
105 JROTC entries
40 entries for the
Goat events
Mike
Team
Minium
Canyoneros
OCIN

6. Examples of two Florida
Champs courses
Yellow (novice) on left
Blue (advanced) on right

7. Orienteers in Action

8. Nick Barrable
of
Great Britain
Overall Winner
of the 9km
Blue Course

9. Sarah-Jane Gaffney of Great Britain
Overall winner of the 8km Red Course

10. Donna Fluegel
editor of
Orienteering
North America
instructs on the
Green course

11. Winter Park JROTC ran a great event for over 100 cadets

12. Some of the FLO
Manatee Medal
winners
Trish Strat
Tracy Acuff
&
Heidi Onkst David ‘Dash’ Ashley

13. Start of the Bubba Goat Race

14. They’re Off!

15. Bubba Goat participants
ran a handicap preliminary
Score ‘O’ section (below)
before changing maps for
the main event. Some
participants due to
age, gender and
orienteering experience got
to leave out some controls
of the preliminary section.
First Overall: Nick Barrable
of Great Britain in 1:37:40

16. The Mini Goat participants start out

17. The ‘Mini-Goat’ Race
won by Auri and
Fabiana Copetti of
Brazil

18. David Onkst
James
Nici
The vegetation took its toll on
some but everyone completed
their course …… Vicki
….. eventually Donna Leigh
Bishop
Fluegel Thomas

19. Finisher
Lake Louisa State Park

20. Thank you to the staff
and
inhabitants
of
Lake Louisa State Park