DVOA - Ridley Creek SP

Splits:

• Dec 5, 2010
  • Yellow (1)

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Ridley Creek State Park, PA, US
Dec 5, 2010

Type: Orienteering - Local

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added by: hughmac4

Join us at Ridley Creek State Park on December 5th for DVOA's last event of the year.

Long Orange
In addition to a full set of courses, we will feature a long Orange course specially geared for Adventure Racers.

The course will be approximately 8km in length, and provide super-fit people without elite orienteering skills an opportunity to exhaust themselves. In order to know approximately how many maps to print, the course setter (hughmac3) would appreciate an e-mail heads-up if you plan to compete on the long Orange course.

Course Setter's Notes
The Ridley Creek courses have been designed to avoid the worst of Ridley’s briars, and to prevent outdated areas of the map from impacting competition results. Rootstocks are particularly unreliable, as old, mapped rootstocks have degraded, and there are many new unmapped rootstocks. A few overgrown trails have been marked with pink streamers, where they are of navigational importance.

The most important note relates to the Creek itself: all advanced courses, BROWN through BLUE will take competitors THROUGH the Creek, twice, at fordable crossings – even though the map itself characterizes the Creek as “uncrossable.” In other words, elite runners will get wet feet – ankle to mid-calf. The decision to do this stems from the desire to effectively utilize the East side of Ridley Creek, enabling DVOA to orienteer in Ridley’s best areas.

Course Information:

Course	Distance	Climb	Controls
White	2.2 km	65 m	9
Yellow	3.5	110	10
Orange	4.8	165	9
Long Orange	7.9	290	16
Brown	3.8	210	10
Green	5.1	240	15
Red	6.2	265	17
Blue	8.1	335	23

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Attending:

		hughmac4 (log) Vetting Crew
		Tom O (log)
		j-man (log)