- Sun - Mar 23, 2014 - Governor Dick
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Event Director: Mary Frank 16103104675
Course Setter: Samuel Kolins and see choices to Volunteer to help at this event 🙏
Notes: Rt 117 is closed West of Mt Gretna for bridge construction
ED/CS Notes:
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 (and hopefully not too much snow). The vegetation mapping is still pretty accurate and rootstocks on the map are 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 maps 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 most cases you would only run into a yard if you were off course. There is one location on some advanced courses where possible route choices take you near houses; in this case the houses are marked as out of bounds on the map.
Registration is on the porch of the environmental center, right next to the parking lot. The start is about a 400-500 meter uphill walk from registration. Water will be provided at the start location (in addition to the usual water on the course).
RED and BLUE: The red and blue courses will also travel to the south-east side of the main ridgeline running through the park. As part the park’s forest management plan, there are a couple areas that you may run into where trees were cut this winter. The affected areas will be outlined in red on your map. These areas are not out of bounds, but most route choices avoid the cut areas, and there are fair number of branches down so travel through these areas would be slow. 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. All trails remain open and unaltered. Red lines crossing trails on the map represent new jeep trails that were created in order to carry out the cutting operations. There are additional new logging areas (small clear cut areas) in the far eastern part of the map that you should not reach unless you are very far off track.
Also note that the southeast side of the park is much rockier than the northwest side, so the standards for what stony ground and boulders get mapped are very different, and travel through rocky areas can be slower.
Map Location:
Previous Results from this Map:
Mar 30, 2024
Jul 25, 2021
Mar 31, 2018
Apr 09, 2017
Mar 20, 2016
Courses Information:
Course Distance Climb Ctrls White 2.00km 50.0m 10 Yellow 3.00km 125.0m 11 Orange 4.30km 150.0m 10 Brown 4.00km 85.0m 10 Green 5.60km 175.0m 13 Red 7.00km 175.0m 14 Blue 8.90km 290.0m 18
Full Schedule (old style)
PDF Schedule
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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