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QUICK INFO
Urban map featuring streets, walkways, multi-use trails, paths, buildings, and vegetation in Portland's southwest hills.
Location: Portland Heights neighborhood in SW Portland, in and around Council Crest hilltop park. We'll confirm the start location closer to the event date.
Score-O format. Find as many controls as you can, in any order, in either 60 and 120 minutes. Smartphone app or Q&A sheet used to verify controls.
Starts: We plan to have supervised starts on race day, Saturday May 22, 2021. Start times are 9:00 AM to noon. Last finish by 3:00 PM. Do-it-yourself starts are between Sunday, May 23 and Monday, May 31, 2021.
We are not conducting skills clinics or renting compasses at this event.
Meet director: Abra McNair
REQUIREMENTS
CROC membership (or membership in another orienteering club).
All participants must preregister.
This will be a self start event instead of having CROC volunteers at the event for check-in and starts/finishes.
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 May 22). Be sure your phone has a well charged battery.
A compass is optional (helpful even on a street map); no rental compasses will be available.
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 11:00 pm Thu, May 19, processed on May 20.
DIY orienteers: pre-register by 11:00 pm Wed, May 26, processed on May 27
Fees for this event are $7 per individual and $12 for teams.
EVENT OVERVIEW
This is an urban event where you travel on streets, walkways, trails, and urban stairways to each of your controls. Your map shows all the possible routing options, and also indicates where private properties exist (stay off of all marked private properties). The terrain is steep, but we promise there will be some nice views!
This event will be a score-O format, where are you can find the controls in any order you like and have two time limits, 60 or 120 minutes. (Anyone finishing the course in more than 60 minutes is automatically in the 120 minute category.)
Competitive orienteers have the following three options for having their times verified in the results:
This new smartphone GPS based 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). Learn more about this app here.
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 (Sat May 22). 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.