{"id":2213,"date":"2019-06-10T16:05:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T13:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2019\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2019-06-10T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T13:53:20","slug":"the-course-setter-got-lost-in-the-jukola-terrain-had-to-catch-a-milk-van-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2019\/en\/2019\/06\/the-course-setter-got-lost-in-the-jukola-terrain-had-to-catch-a-milk-van-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The course setter got lost in the Jukola terrain! Had to catch a milk van home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The terrain in Heponiemi has become very familiar to Petteri Laitinen, one of two course setters for the Kangasala-Jukola. However, the control points have sometimes eluded him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201d<em>One of the most memorable experiences of my orienteering career happened here at this very same Jukola terrain. I must have been 9-10 years old and had joined my orienteering club\u2019s camping trip for the first time. It was held in a hunting club lodge here in Majaalahti, which is a northern part of this year\u2019s Jukola competition area.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I got totally lost during one of the exercises and ran completely off the map. After wandering around for ages in a mild panic I found myself at the edge of a field. The problem was that there were no fields on my map!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I decided to go ask for directions at a farm just past the fields. There was a milk van standing in the driveway, and the driver basically told me that I was so far away from the campsite that I best hop in the van. \u00a0And so I returned to the camp in the back of the milk van.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It was obviously a slightly scary experience for a young lad, but at the same time comforting to know that you will always find your way home. And it didn\u2019t dampen his orienteering enthusiasm, apparently quite the opposite!<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Even then, the terrain in Heponiemi proved to be a worthy adversary. But since then, as his orienteering skills developed and he was able to run challenging courses faultlessly, the terrain has provided many amazing experiences. <\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hopefully the Jukola competitors will have more of the latter and not the former milk van experience!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terrain in Heponiemi has become very familiar to Petteri Laitinen, one of two course setters for the Kangasala-Jukola. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":2205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}