University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, August 22. 1979
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Water holes excellent for recreation
By JIM BLOOM
Staff Reporter
KU students looking for a place to
kuce this fall won't have to go too far
outside Lawrence to get away from the
books and studying.
Several northeast Kansas lakes are within an hour's drive of Lawrence.
The closest one is Clinton Reservoir. Four miles west of town, the lake is being filed, according to Walt Settles, a park manager, and is open now for fishing.
The lake is not yet open for recreational boating, but fishing boats are allowed.
The lake is stocked with large mouth and small mouth balsa, white bass, bluegill, creppe, channel catfish, northern pike, walleye, stribed bass.
Jerry Haslett, fisheries director of the northeast area Kansas Fish and Game Commission office, said that there was a public hunting area at Clinton Park. The area, 10,000 acres in size, could be a good hunting unit, squirrel, rabbit and ducks.
The other lakes around Lawrence which
PERRY LAKE is open year-round. The lake is 12 miles wide, Highway 59, the lake is popular for its fishing, boating, pickincking and camping there. There is also an 11,000 acre public park adjacent.
might attract students are Perry Lake, Lone Star Lake, Douglas County State Lake, Lake Henry, Pomona Reservoir and Leavenworth State Fishing Lake.
Swimming is permitted at the lake from June through August, and boating is allowed from April through October.
DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE LAKE is located east of Baldwin and 12 miles southeast of Lawrence on county road 406.
LONE STAR LAKE, which is 12 miles southwest of town, is a popular spot with students. Swimming, boating and camping are the school's Labor Day. Fishing is allowed year-round.
Both Lone Star and Douglas County Lake have concession stations and picnic areas. Fishing boats and sailboats are available. Powerbanks and skis are not allowed.
LAKE HENRY, long a popular nude bathing area, probably will not be open for swimming after this summer.
the lake, six miles west of Lawrence, is in the confines of Clinton Park. Walt Settles, manager of Clinton Park, said that although he had seen petitions that suppressed a proposed national symposiums optional" swimming in it probably would be closed once the park opens.
POMONA RESERVOIR, 20 miles west of Ottawa on U.S. H7, has a state park area with a swimming spot and provisions for camping. Camping areas are required for camping in certain areas.
LEAVENWORTH STATE FISHING LAKE, 17 miles north of town, also is open for camping, pincering and fishing. Are prohibited, but sailboats are allowed.
The lake's facilities are limited, but the fishing is good. The lake contains channel cages of large mouth bass, crabweed, blue gill, sunfish, snapper, bullhead, waileye, carp and drum.
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Orienteering club members decipher mystery of map reading
Give a member of the KU Orienteeing Club a map and compass and he will take you anywhere—on an orienteeing course, that is.
"A whole family could show up and be in individual categories, and everyone has a chance to come home with something." Wee, I didn't know how to come out and walk around in the woods.
The three-year-old club, a part of Student Union Activities, is made up of students and members of the general public who combine an interest in maps and map-reading with enjoyment of athletics and the outdoors, and are interested in Club coordinate said recently. Anyone interested may join in the SUA office and be invited to Annual membership dues are $4.
"It's not like bike training where racers go out and train every day," Wee said. "It’s pretty much of a recreational sport. Most of our people do it because it’s fun."
The sport is of Scandinavian origin and centers on the skill of marking the hands are given detailed maps with marked checkpoints. Wee said. From a starting point, contestants must complete a series of throws to get the ball into the hand.
fast as possible. Orienteering is sometimes called "yachting on the green."
THE MEETS TEST the competitors' ability to read a map and match the map with the terrain they are expected to encounter in the courses, constantly making decisions about which route to take. A wooed area with little undergrowth is the "classic" meet setting and local meet areas are much more difficult.
BESIDES BEING accessible to beginners, orienteering also has room for people of all ages. Wee said. At most meets, there are male and female categories in a series
Mets often have beginner courses. We said, and the only equipment needed is a camera. We asked Professor George McLeary, associate professor of geography, periodically teaches a course in orienteering which includes courses in skiing and Orienteering courses are offered by the Reserve Officer Training Corps and We said this has free university may include a course.
A student is interested in learning about these topics from SUA and sign up. Wee said:
The KU Orientering Club attends meets in Kansas City held by the Protostum Trot Orientering Club and meets held by Orientering Club. We said, the KU Orientering Club, We said, the KU Orientering Club intercollegiate Championships, held in Athens, Ohio, in April, 1978 and will probably attend the National Orientering Championships this November in New York.
The club holds its own meets on KU's West Campus, in Clinton Lake Park and at Perry Lake, Wee said.
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