- Sun - May 13, 2012 - Evansburg
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Event Director: Angelica Riley
Course Setter: Wyatt Riley and see choices to Volunteer to help at this event 🙏
ED/CS Notes:
Come and celebrate Mother's day at Evansburg State Park! Bring a picnic and take your mother on an orienteering course! Can't bring Mom? I'm sure she still wants you to get some fresh air, some exercise, and have fun doing it!
Are you a Mom? Swings, climbing equipment and more at a modern playground await your kids - and it's not same old one in your neighborhood!
Mom needs a break for Mother's day? Dad can take the kids out for a hike around the park with a map (ooh, a treasure hunt!), and some time at the playground!
A full range of courses are offered from very easy to advanced! Come and enjoy the outdoors this Spring.
Course setter's notes:
Revised Map
The Evansburg map was updated with over 200 revisions for the Fall 2011 event, followed by almost 100 more for this Spring 2012 event, to help ensure that trails, vegetation and other things along your route choices and in your controls circles more up to date.
Course-specific notes:
Orange, Green, Red, Blue: the course lines criss-cross a few times, so please keep a close eye on the control number you are heading for, as well as the lines interconnecting them, to ensure you are aiming for the right one.
Orange, Brown, Green, Red, Blue: some routes can potentially go nearby houses that are within or along the edge of the park. Please especially avoid the yards marked with purple out-of-bounds overprint, and the olive-green residential area markings, near the edges of the map, outside the park boundaries. Inside the park, you may pass by residences without such out-of-bound marking (there is one house near a reasonable route on these courses), and in these cases, please at least stay near the edge of the yard.
Blue: has a control in a new, partially-mapped section of the park. This section stands out with a white-and-green diamond pattern covering the portions of that forest that remain unmapped. Within this area, there are several trails (accurately mapped) which provide different route choices on the legs to and from the control.
Green, Red, Blue: Some legs routes have route choices with Evansburg Creek crossings. The Green course has 2 effectively-required crossings, and Red and Blue courses having viable route choice options across or around the creek.
To assist in making these crossings, 7 creek crossing points have been marked with the purple crossing-point symbol. All of these points can be crossed at ankle-to-knee deep, and usually 10-20m wide to get across.
The required stream crossings on the Green course are among the widest and shallowest of the crossings, with a ~100m long, ~20m wide stretch of the creek almost entirely
In addition to the marked crossing points, you are allowed to cross the creek even at other locations if you'd like (anglers do it all the time), but the depth may be more than knee deep.
In any case, please cross the creek at your own risk, and if you are water crossing-averse, avoid the Green course (e.g. try Brown, Orange or Red…), and if on Red or Blue, take the nearby bridge crossings instead of the creek.
Terrain and Cautions:
Roads: All courses cross park roads, and parking lots which likely will have some traffic, including other orienteers. Advanced courses may cross or run along public roads briefly, depending on route choice. There are no crossing guards at any of the places you may cross. Please exercise normal caution to avoid vehicles when crossing these areas.
Muddy trails: Some of the trails , esp. the wider ones with strips of rough open along them are have some rather muddy patches and can be bumpy if chewed up by horses. You might want to bring a change of shoes for afterwards, especially if it has been wet in the week leading up to the event.
Vegetation: Orange and Advanced course competitors should note that vegetation has not been fully remapped, and, due to age, has often changed. Fortunately, the most common change has been for areas mapped as dark green to have become significantly more navigable, likely better mapped as medium green, perhaps with white and/or light-green patches within. While you may not want to aim for dark green just to check for yourself, if you do find yourself heading toward mapped dark green, keep your eyes up, looking ahead, and you can often find a reasonable way through.
In most cases, courses have been designed to take you through the lighter areas when off trail. There are also several route-choice trail options in the thicker areas of the park.
Poison Ivy: In the flatter areas near the creek, off-trail courses (including trail-to-trail short-cuts on Yellow) will come across several area of grassy forest that will often contain ankle to knee high sprigs of poison ivy. If you are susceptible to poison ivy, wear long pants, keep an eye out and since it's usually not too dense, you can wiggle around most of it. And, as usual, wash off from whatever sprigs you did bump when you get back to the finish.
(The course setter, usually quite susceptible to poison ivy, has used these precautions with 100pct. effectiveness, now one week after having finished all streamering.)
Ticks: In ~20 km + several hours of time in the forest, the course setter has yet to get any ticks at Evansburg this year, despite forgetting to use bug spray every time...
Still, there are signs say ticks are out there, so you might want to take normal bu-spray and post-shower tick-check precautions.
Map Location:
Previous Results from this Map:
Aug 27, 2022
Apr 23, 2017
Courses Information:
Course Distance Climb Ctrls White 1.76km 50.0m 8 Yellow 2.11km 65.0m 8 Orange 4.64km 120.0m 13 Brown 3.25km 110.0m 11 Green 6.39km 145.0m 16 Red 7.83km 245.0m 18 Blue 10.42km 240.0m 23
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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