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Current Entry: Orienteering/DDA
Compass courses have been traced at six different Winter Camps, but none have attained the reputation of the first, from Winter Camp II. Jeff Rand and Doug Wilson laid out three courses which ranged through nearly every square yard of D-A throughout their 22,400-tad length. All three courses were designed to end at the Jack Lord Nature Center, but few orienteers followed their assigned course to the end. One team found themselves deep in the Beaver Creek panhandle after running their first bearing-when directed to go even further south, they opted to finish the course mentally. They concluded that they would eventually land at the stone arrow near Cow Camp-incorrectly, as the path was intended to lead them to the Jack Lord Nature Center. Later courses were designed with the aid of the DDA (Directional Distance Analysis) computer program, which debuted in 1981. This TRS-80 program contains positional information about a host of locations at D-A, and may be used to plot compass courses of any desired complexity.