Discussion: Start times posted. Bulletin online.

Start times have been posted:

https://www.orienteeringusa.org/eventregister/a31/...

Online info has lots of updates:

http://www.gaorienteering.org/Special_Events/GNC20...

Bulletin is available as a pdf:

http://www.gaorienteering.org/Special_Events/GNC20...

Weather looks good:

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hd...

Online info has lots of updates:

In a nutshell, what's been updated?

Details abut Meet Check-in and HQ, parking details, course details, course setter and vetter's notes, walk to start, safety info, and details about the Junior Team Training and Fundraising activites.

It appears they use a course consultant from outside. Unprecedented for this event.

An exaggeration, of course. I have been a course consultant for GNC at least once.

@JJ: Was it on-line consulting, like this time?

"Course Consultant" in USOF-speak means someone who never goes out to the terrain and communicates with the course setter remotely. The other one is "Event Consultant". This one is supposed to go out to the terrain. There have been fewer Event Consultants in the past 20 years than fingers on my hand.

Saturday's splits have been posted.

Yes, I was a course consultant, working from home, looking for things like inappropriate difficulty level, inadequate water stops, excessive climb, etc., plus making suggestions to improve the courses. T/D is correct that on-site consulting is very rare, due in part to the travel expenses that would be involved, though I suspect there may have been slightly more than four nationwide in the past 20 years. But if so, not many more.

We have an event consultant for our March A meet. The consultant has not visited the site in person recently, but has run in the park many times during previous business trips . We have been consulting with monthly phone calls.

Event consultants also typically concern themselves with more aspects of the meet than just the course designs.