QUICK INFO
NEW urban map featuring streets, walkways, multi-use trails, paths, buildings, and vegetation in public lands over about 4.5 square kilometers.
Location: Westside Multi-Use Trail at SW Rigert Ave in West Beaverton (near Sexton Mountain). Directions and map below.
Score-O courses (60 and 120 minutes). Smartphone app or Q&A sheet used to verify controls.
Starts: There will be supervised starts on race day, Sunday March 21, 2021. Start times are 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Last finish by 5:00 PM. Do-it-yourself starts are between Monday, March 22 and Saturday, March 27, 2021.
Meet director Tony Pinkham
PRE-REGISTER HERE FOR EVENT DAY
PRE-REGISTER HERE FOR DO-IT-YOURSELF
Due to COVID-19, this event has special requirements noted below reduce risk to participants. To comply with state restrictions, we are making the following changes to this event:
This is a fluid and changing situation. This event may be cancelled.
If you feel ill, please stay home.
Social distancing and the wearing of face masks around others is required.
All participation requires pre-registration (no event day registration is allowed).
The coursse will remain open to map hikers and do-it-yourself competitors for 6 days after the initial event day.
We will have assigned start times to maintain social distancing on the initial event day.
We’ll have just one volunteer to manage starts, finishes, and beginner instruction on the initial event day), there will be no rental equipment (compasses).
For this event, we will be using phone apps and Q&A sheets in place of control flags for competitive orienteers and the honor system for map hikers (they can also use the smartphone apps).
MEET DESCRIPTION
Dates/Times: Event day is Sunday, March 21, with assigned starts between 9 AM and 3 PM, and last finishes at 5 PM. (Recommended for the best experience.)
Self-starts for Do-It-Yourself (DIY) orienteers are from Monday March 22 to Saturday March 27, 2021.
Starting location: Westside Multi-Use Trail at SW Rigert Ave in West Beaverton (near Sexton Mountain). The two parks on either side of SW Rigert Ave are Hart Meadows Park and Beacon Hill Park (you can use either one for Google directions). For an interactive map and step-by-step directions, see below.
REQUIREMENTS for Event Day or DIY participants:
CROC MEMBERSHIP (or membership in another orienteering club).
PRE-REGISTRATION
UsynlingO smartphone app or a pencil/pen to mark a Q&A sheet to verify your arrival at each control site (this is optional for participants going out after March 21).
A compass is optional (helpful even on a street map); no rental compasses will be available.
Event director: Tony Pinkham
ADVANCE REGISTRATION (REQUIRED) AND FEES
To receive maps - and pick start times for Event Day orienteers - click one of the links below. There will not be any registration on event day.
EVENT DAY orienteers: pre-register by 12 noon Sat, March 20.
DIY orienteers: pre-register by 11 pm Sun, March 21.
Fees for this event are $7 per individual and $12 for teams.
CLICK HERE FOR EVENT DAY REGISTRATION
CLICK HERE FOR DIY REGISTRATION
EVENT OVERVIEW
This is an urban event in which you must travel on streets, walkways, trails, or open public lands to each of your controls. Your map shows all the possible routing options, many of which take you off streets, and it also indicates where private properties exist (stay off of all marked private properties). The terrain includes low rolling hills and three steep hills. If you take trails through thickly vegetated public lands (various shades of green), please stay on the trails (feel free to go over open public grassy areas and any mapped trails).
This event features one score-O course with two time limits - 60 and 120 minutes.
Competitive orienteers have the following three options for having their times verified in the results:
This new smartphone app used by many orienteering clubs lets you keep your phone in your pocket or backpack for the entire event after you punch your start button. Whenever you arrive at a control location, the app records your arrival time and makes a loud audible sound to verify your find (you don't need to punch any buttons).
Question and Answer sheet
For anyone not using a smartphone app, we have a Q&A sheet with a question that you answer for each control that you visit. For these competitors to have their verified times listed in the results, they must compete on the initial event day (Sunday, March 21). DIY participants can optionally use the Q&A sheet on the DIY days and even submit their course times but those times will be listed as "unverified" in the results.
DIY orienteers can use any of the above methods or skip the verification tools and just hike their courses. If DIY orienteers use a smartphone app, their finish times can be included in the verified results. All other DIY participants will be listed alphabetically as participants without times (unless they submit their times as unverified times).
ASSIGNED START TIMES:
Participants orienteering on the first day of the event will be assigned start times to help keep people socially distanced from one another. Please arrive in time for your assigned time to keep things flowing as nicely as possible for our one volunteer. If you miss your assigned time, we should be able to assign you to another time, but you might need to wait for that start time while others start at their assigned times.
BEGINNERS:
If you are new to orienteering and need quick instructions on how to orienteer, please arrive at least 30 minutes early on the initial event day and ask for a quick (socially distant) beginner's clinic.
DIRECTIONS: (if using a GPS unit or Googlemaps, use "Hart Meadows Park, Beaverton" (or "8183 SW 159th Pl, Beaverton") as your destination.)
From Portland and Vancouver:
1. Take Highway 84, Insterstate 5, or Interstate 405 to Highway 26 (westbound).
2. Take Highway 26 westbound to Highway 217 (exit 69A).
3. Take Highway 217 southbound for 3.5 miles to the SW Allen Blvd exit (exit 2B).
4. Turn right onto SW Allen Blvd, and go 1.7 miles to SW Murray Blvd.
5. Turn left onto Murray Blvd, and go 0.8 miles to SW Hart Ave.
6. Turn right onto SW Hart Ave, and go 0.5 miles to SW 155th Ave.
7. Turn left onto SW 155th Ave, and go 0.3 miles to SW Rigert Ave.
8. Turn right onto SW Rigert Ave, and go 0.2 miles to Hart Meadows Park (you will see tennis courts on the left).
9. Park on the street and look for the volunteer by the red Prius car.
From West Linn, Clackamas, and Oregon City:
1. Take Interstate 205 "south" to Interstate 5.
2. Take Interstate 5 northbound 4 miles to Highway 217 (exit 292A).
3. Take Highway 217 northbound 3 miles to the SW Scholls Ferry exit (exit 4).
4. Turn left onto Scholls Ferry and go 2.4 miles to SW Murray Blvd.
5. Turn right onto SW Murray Blvd and go 1.0 mile to SW Beard Road.
6. Turn left onto SW Beard Road and go 0.5 miles to SW 155th Ave.
7. Turn right onto SW 155th Ave. and go 0.5 miles to SW Rigert Ave.
8. Turn left onto SW Rigert Ave, and go 0.2 miles to the Hart Meadows Park (you will see tennis courts on the left).
9. Park on the street and look for the volunteer by the red Prius car.
From Tigard and areas further south:
1. Take Highway 217 northbound to the SW Scholls Ferry exit (exit 4).
2. Turn left onto Scholls Ferry and go 2.4 miles to SW Murray Blvd.
3. Turn right onto SW Murray Blvd and go 1.0 mile to SW Beard Road.
4. Turn left onto SW Beard Road and go 0.5 miles to SW 155th Ave.
5. Turn right onto SW 155th Ave. and go 0.5 miles to SW Rigert Ave.
6. Turn left onto SW Rigert Ave, and go 0.2 miles to the Hart Meadows Park (you will see tennis courts on the left).
7. Park on the street and look for the volunteer by the red Prius car.
From Beaverton and Hillsboro:
1. Take Murray Ave (south) to the signal at SW Hart Ave.
2. Turn right onto SW Hart Ave, and go 0.5 miles to SW 155th Ave.
3. Turn left onto SW 155th Ave, and go 0.3 miles to SW Rigert Ave.
4. Turn right onto SW Rigert Ave, and go 0.2 miles to Hart Meadows Park (you will see tennis courts on the left).
5. Park on the street and look for the volunteer by the red Prius car.