- Wed - Jun 14, 2017 - Norristown State Hospital
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Event Director: Sandy Fillebrown
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Notes: Wednesday Evening Series #3
Courses and Registration Open: 6:00 pm
Courses Close and Clean-up Begins: 7:30 pm
Two courses, each ~2.0 - 2.5 km and suitable for beginners
$10 for one course, $15 for two; all proceeds benefit the US Orienteering Team
ED/CS Notes:
Don't miss this long awaited return to Norristown State Hospital!
Note that this is NOT Norristown Farm Park and the entrance to the hospital grounds are in a completely different place. Here are the GPS coordinates of the parking lot we will be using: N:40.133888 W:-75.345105
There will be orienteering signs (the wooden orange and white arrows) from the corner of Sterigere St. and Stanbridge St., the main entrance to the Hospital. To avoid driving through the middle of the courses, however, the arrows will take you northeat on Stanbridge St. outside the hospital grounds to the gate at Locust St. Then you will turn left onto Locust St. and go straight ahead to the parking lot by building 57. Please obey the stop signs and drive slowly as there are often people walking about.
THERE ARE NO FACILITIES AVAILABLE so plan accordingly.
You could choose to warm-up by jogging about 600m and into the woods of the Farm Park and there will be a map available showing you how to get there (go back down Locust St., turn left on Stanbrigde St. and go to the end of the road, across the foot bridge and into the Farm Park.
The map is old; it was made in 2004. I've made a lot of updates - buildings are gone and many trees have been cut down and new ones planted in different places - but I'm sure I've missed things. Although the map was made specifically for sprint courses, it uses an old mapping standard for sprint courses. In particular, buildings are black and not gray, underpasses are not shown, stairs are not shown except in a few places where I added them thinking it might affect route choice and impassable stone walls are shown by using the stone wall symbol from a regular orienteering map (line with solid black circles).
We have been asked to stay away from several buildings. These, and the grounds immediately surrounding them, have been marked as out-of-bounds. Please respect this as we want to be able to come back! A blank map with the out-of-bounds area shown will be available at registration.
Map Location:
Previous Results from this Map:
Jul 24, 2019
Jul 11, 2018
Jun 14, 2017
Courses Information:
Course Distance Climb Ctrls SprintO-1 2.20km 10.0m 13 SprintO-2 2.50km 20.0m 13
Full Schedule (old style)
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Unless otherwise noted:
- Pre-registration is recommended, discounted, and open until Thursday night, before the event.
- Day-of-registration is available, at $10 for beginners, and $20 for other courses.
All starts are from 10:00am until 1:00pm unless otherwise noted. Follow the text directions and look for Orienteering road signs as you near the park.
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| W | White, beginner level 3km or less |
| Y | Yellow, advanced beginner 2.5 to 4km |
| O | Orange, intermediate 3.5 to 5.5km |
| Br | Brown, Short Advanced 3 to 5km |
| G | Green, Advanced 4.5 - 7km |
| R | Red, Longer Advanced 6 - 10km |
| Bl | Blue, Long Advanced 8 - 14kms |
| Sc | Score-O |
| Sp | Sprint-O |
| Adv | Advanced |
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