Remembering Pete Bunschuh

Pete Bundschuh, a founding member of UNO, an ever-present meet organizer/worker, and an avid orienteer, died on October 27, 2024 of ALS.

Read Pete’s obituary online, as well as a thread of comments on Attackpoint.

Watch for the details of Pete’s Celebration of Life, April 19, 2025.

If you have remembrances or photos to include here, send them to webmaster@upnoor.org.

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From Bob Burnham; Nov. 24, 2024 –

I knew Pete from Dartmouth and saw him at a number of orienteering events over the years as we are part of CSU. Pete was on my Dartmouth trail crew my freshmen summer where 5 of us had the highly interesting and physically demanding job of maintaining 75 miles of the AT, other Dartmouth trails such as the Clark Pond loop, plus the Dartmouth cabins. Pete was an all knowledgeable and great teacher as well as a great crew mate and really fun to listen to when he told stories. He was also strong as an ox slugging rocks with wrecking bars and carrying logs. This continued with other outing club projects, and later I was on the Woodsmen team where we held the college Woodsmen meet which meant spending endless hours preparing all the logs for a number of events. If you know Pete, you can imagine how great it was to work with him.

My family all nordic skis, much like Pete and Lex, but we were on the racing circuit quite a bit, so when Pete and I decided to do a Rogaine event some years later, I thought well, I still coach a team and train, and I orienteer sometimes in Mass, so this should not be too hard. Oops— Pete could not significantly out-orienteer me, but also, he never seemed to tire on a long day in the woods. He was really great at running through the woods back then. I regret not getting together for a ski tour with Pete and Lex as we once had discussed it at an UNO event. One more lesson not to take time for granted. Lex, we wish you and your family well and we are so sorry for your loss.

– Bob Burnham

Also from Bob, “the only real photo I have of Pete on a DOC trip on the Ammonoosuc river where about 10 of us were all jumping off this bridge. Great memory.”

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