We had beautiful weather (sunny and 70’s) for our second meet of the spring season at Caumsett State Park but turnout was rather light. We had 5 attend our skills clinic before the meet where we practiced choosing an attack point, taking a compass bearing, estimating distance and then pace counting to two features. Along the way we verified our routes using collecting features, aimed off, and when we overshot the small mound, the path acted as a collecting feature. We were able to relocate where we were, identify a nearby knoll, and find the small mound (we didn’t miss it by much), Glen will try and have these skills clinics before each meet. Troop 403 from Commack/East Northport led off with one group of younger scouts on the White course and 2 groups of older scouts on the Yellow course. Elite orienteer Stephan Slutsky put up the fastest time on the Score-O beating our own Misha Leder by 23 minutes. He calculated that he could have gone about 5-10 minutes faster if our map was better and he made fewer mistakes. Then he helped pick up the controls before biking back to Cold Spring Harbor train station or his trip back to Brooklyn. Thank you Stephan. A special thanks to Thomas Gifford for designing and setting his first course. Now lets thank the following for their help: Linda Baden and Bette Rodney at registration, John and Glen for instruction and supernumerary Chris Morrissey.