Hey Orienteers, you only have a few days left to find your compass and trail shoes before the first meet of the season! The first meet will be held at Earthquake park on Wednesday May 4th. There will be five traditional courses:
- Red (advanced): 4.9km; 23 controls
- Green: 4.0km; 17 controls
- Orange: 2.9km; 17 controls
- Yellow: 2.1km; 14 controls
- White (novice): 1.7km; 10 controls
Starts will be from 5pm until 7pm. You must be off the course by 8:30pm (to give us time to retrieve controls before it gets dark). All controls on all courses will have electronic punches (if you do not have a finger stick, there will be a limited number for purchase or rental). You can elect to use the old school manual punch method if you prefer.
Earthquake park provides some great trails and technical navigation right in the city. We hope you will come out and enjoy it with us.
Course Setter’s Notes:
- There is great visibility and no mosquitoes!
- Winter is still breaking up in the park, so there is snow in some places (sometimes a lot!), mud/ice in others, and melt water that hasn’t drained yet – you will most likely get wet feet.
- Some trails can be difficult to see — still covered last year’s leaf fall, also residual hard packed snow makes some of the trails hard to walk or run.
- Snow/slush remains in some ponds making the edges indistinct
- Running off trail is generally faster moving East-West as opposed to North-South due to all the E-W furrows caused by the earthquake.
- It is legal to cross through/over any water body on the map, although this should not be necessary.
Upcoming Meets (check website for changes)
5/11/22–Traditional at McHugh Creek
5/18/22–Sketch-O at Russian Jack
5/25/22–Traditional at U-Med
6/1/22–Traditional at FNBP Mile 1.1
6/8/22–Traditional at Mirror Lake
6/15/22–Traditional at Pia’s
6/22/22–Traditional at FNBP Mile 2.2
6/29/22–Billy Goat-O at Storck Park
7/6/22–Butterfly-O at Glen Alps
7/13/22–Traditional at Hilltop
7/27/22–Sprint at Ruth Arcand
8/3/22–Sprint at UAA
8/10/22–High School-O Sprint at Bartlett
8/13/22–Mountain-O
8/17/22–Bike-O at Hilltop
8/24/22–Sprint at Kincaid
9/3/22–Sprint at Settlers Bay
9/14/22–Sprint at Earthquake Park
9/21/22–End of Season Score-O at Russian Jack