Discussion: Orienteering Colonel Denning

For those who are interested and live in the area I was informed that there will be an orienteering event organized at Colonel Denning State Park tomorrow morning june 18th. It's being done as part of a military PT test so I don't imagine it will be very intense competition. But I believe they could use experienced orienteers to help teach people. I won't be able to attend but I encourage anyone who lives nearby to go. It's just a few miles north of Newville, PA.

Its been 5-10 years since I visited this area, but I have a generally positive memory of it, rather nice forest, even in summer veg, with some medium scale spur-reentrant topo for which an assumed USGS base map might be OK, certainly not O standard, but workable for a low expectation map and event.

The terrain is indeed interesting but the area is rather small. Its in a tight valley with very steep sides. I made a lidar base of the park and part of the surrounding Tuscarora SF this spring (2.5m contours shown here) and its likely that Mike Bertram - now living in the area - will do the mapping. Its possible that they'll be using this base or some version of it for the meet this weekend, but I don't know.

Oh it's great woods there is hardly any green in it but very steep at parts. The maps the park provides are basically close ups of usgs maps. If there were ever an event here I would be very interested in running/ setting up.

looks like a great map for a contour-only event. :-)

Doesn't open in IE8. Opens in Chrome & Firefox.

The image here is a large gif (254 DPI for 1:10000). No info has been added from the orthophotos or lidar-derived templates yet (vegheight, etc). The vectors here are from the vendor provided breaklines sets.