What would you think about OK mapping and hosting a meet at Swope Park at the beginning of May 2001? This meet would be much like the great forest park 'O' meet was 15 years ago. I think we could come up with sponsorship and publicity that would make it avery big event. Would we be stepping on PTOC's toes?

-- Snorkel (daniel_meenehan@hotmail.com), May 29, 2000

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I think a summer Park-O' event (or even series) would be good. I don't think it would be stepping on PTOC's toes to use Swope Park. The problem with Swope Park would be that we'd need to map it. It might not be so much trouble to map. The city has decent base maps and the club owns OCAD. Volunteers?

It might be better to have park-O' in Lawrence. The best areas I can think of are the overlook at Clinton, and the Haskell and KU campuses. I think we'd have trouble getting permission to use the KU campus. (Gene -- is this true?). Haskell might be a better possibility. Once again the trouble is we don't have up-to-date maps. Other good park-O' site would be the Haskell Campus

-- Michael (meglin@juno.com), May 29, 2000.

I'm still game for setting up a summer gran prix series of park o events. The Loose Park map is out there. It might be fun to also map Gage Park in Topeka, about 1/2 mi by 1/2 mile. The most recent Haskell map was the one I worked on about 10 years ago. I think the KU campus/west campus would be nice, too. I've got lots of ideas of how to set up each event and the series, as well. But mapping is not my forte.

-- Fritz (fpmenninger@hotmail.com), May 29, 2000.

Fritz's map of Haskell always seemed pretty good to me. It would be a good one for a park series. So are places like 321 Blastoff and the clinton overlook for that matter. You don't need a big area or even a color map, or even a map made by a particularly experienced mapper. Setting courses in these places shouldn't be hard either, hopefully you can set only one course, perhaps have a short version and long version, or maybe motala loops.

-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), May 31, 2000.