September 2001 fox hunt report

The September fox hunt was based on a rotating fox principle with each
team having the chance to be fox. As this format was decided only 3 days
before the actual hunt some teams were a little unprepared. The reports
from this hunt were submitted by the team who ran the leg and only 3 reports
were written.

Hunt 1 Report:
The evening started at 8:11pm Train mobile from Glen Waverley Train
Station. However we were soon informed that several team's were still
shopping. So we paused temporarily at Mount Waverley then continued
again on the next train at 8:32pm. We departed the train at East
Malvern at 8:38pm and walked North along the bike track (Where 3JMD
found us), through the Golf course then West along side the northern
bank of the creek, we went to ground here. Soon to be greeted by 3TJN
then VT and ZPF. BLN were very close, however was unprepared to cross
the creek.

Adam
VK3YDF

Hunt 2 - No report

Hunt 3 Report:
ZPF had little time to prepare for being fox as the week before the hunt,
like every other week before a hunt, was spent gettimng the gear ready.
A quick look at the street directory showed Heany Park in Mt Waverley, about
4 km from the start. The park has multiple access points and this should
spread the teams out as they arrived.
First in was YDF followed 3 minutes later by YQN and OW. TVB and YDF came a
minute later and BLN joineed us 4 minutes after that.

73, Peter VK3ZPF

Hunt 4 Report:
YQN put this fox suspended in a bare tree next to a bushy tree in a
"hidden" reserve between the Sprinvale Rd Freeway exit and new housing
developments in the England Rd valley. TJN used to use this as a cycling
short cut on the way to work, but didn't realise the fence around the
housing area had become more significant since. Access was easiest off the
side of the freeway exit, but most teams were unlikely to be approaching
from there anyway. The thin/thick tree ruse worked far better than we could
have hoped with all teams spending time in the bushy tree. Some spending
much time in even more remote trees (what were you doing, Geoff?). 1st was
Adam YDF who was under pressure as other teams closed in. Second was Geoff
VR for TVB team (finally), 3rd was a VT who was actually there before Geoff
(don't you hate that!) and 4th OW who fell for the tree thing in the most
spectacular way. BLN had some battery issues I think.

Cheers,
Bruce

Hunt 5 report:
The 5th hunt of the evening was run by the VT team. After running in a
straight line for a while we decided to pop into the grounds of Monash Uni for
a spot of hiding. We found a smallish road leading close to the buildings and
hid the fox in a small garden area.

TVB was first in a after a bit of cinfuaion found the transmitter, YDF was next
to arrive but with a bit of "leading the hounds astray" was seen to looking in
the wrong place up close to the building finally they were off in the right
direction and found the thing at the same time as YQN. OW poped along a few
minutes latter and swooped on the fox - the other teams were close but time
beat them.

73
Greg VK3VT

Hunt 6 - No report

Hunt 7 - No report

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