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Topic created by skolins on Sat Apr 1, 2017 at 5:17 pmHope that you will come out an join us at Gov. Dick on April 9th and take advantage of the early season (lack of) vegetation! The volunteer sign-up is posted, and as always any help would be greatly appreciated. The course notes for the event are included below.
General Course Notes About the Map:
The courses will spend most of the time in the northern section of the park. This area is composed mainly of hillsides with only a few large terrain features, but many smaller terrain features and lots of platforms, rocks and other point features. There is a lot of white woods with good visibility this time of year though the travel is slowed in spots by patches of vegetation and moderately rocky ground underfoot. The vegetation mapping is still pretty accurate and rootstocks on the map are a bit weathered but still clearly visible in the field (though there are also a fair number of new, unmapped downed trees). The trails on the maps are pretty clearly visible and blazed.
All roads and trails along the edges of the map are in-bounds. However, there are a number of houses on the edges of the map. Please respect these homeowners by not running through their yards. In a few places where the course comes close to houses the private property has specifically been marked as out of bounds on the map.
The red and blue courses will also travel to the south-east side of the main ridgeline running through the park. The southeast side of the park is much rockier than the northwest side, including a number of very large boulders, so the standards for what stony ground and boulders get mapped are very different, and travel through rocky areas can be slower.
Very Important Course Note (Advanced Courses - in particular Red and Blue):
As part the park’s forest management plan, there are a couple areas that you may run into where trees have been cut since the map was made. The red and blue runners will definitely go past some of these areas while green and brown runners may see one of the areas depending on route choice.
One of these areas has been fenced in and is indicated by an overprinted black vertical-slash fenced area symbol on the maps. The fence is uncrossable so you can’t enter this area. The other areas are not fenced in and will be outlined in thick overprint-shade purple on the maps. These areas are not out of bounds, but travel through them is usually fairly slow due to a combination of undergrowth and downed branches with rocks underneath. The boundaries for these areas are a bit rough, but I tried to be fairly accurate in drawing the locations of the boundaries you would be likely to encounter on the course so that they could be used effectively for route-choice and navigation. The edge of the outlined areas on the map roughly corresponds to the edge of the area where downed branches make travel slow. All trails remain open and unaltered. A couple of new rides/logging trails we also added to the map. There are additional new logging areas in the far eastern part of the map that you should not reach unless you are very far off track.
