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Helps meet directors know how many maps to print
See who’s attending, maybe plan a carpool
Quick info
Date: Sat Oct 15 - Note the EARLY mass start time of 8:00!
Location: Sauvie Island Pumpkin Patch - big thanks to them for hosting!
Courses: Mass start, score-O format (find controls in any order you want within a time limit)
Meet director: Sue Grandjean
Event Overview
Come on out and try CROC corn maze orienteering at the Pumpkin Patch on Sauvie Island! It’s probably the smallest scale map we’ve ever used, but DANG there’s a lot of route options! It's all the fun of a corn maze but with an extra competitive edge. Family and beginner friendly, as always.
Driving time from Portland city center is about 30 minutes.
#1 rule: Stay ONLY on existing paths in the maze and do NOT cut through standing corn.
This event starts MUCH earlier than our usual meets, so we can be finished with the course by the time the corn maze opens for business.
MASS START time of 8:00am. Aim to arrive by 7:30 or so to have time to get ready.
This event will have a map exchange. Complete the main course to find 20 controls in any order you like. If you want some more excitement, you can go back in and try to find some more. Either way, you need to be finished by 9 am, or you lose one point for each minute you're late.
Corn maze orienteering tips
Using a highlighter pen to mark your route on the map can be helpful, hint hint.
A compass can be useful - it’s very easy to get turned around and lose your reference to North.
The map scale will be approximately 1:1200, a much larger scale (more “zoomed in”) than a normal orienteering map. Controls will accordingly be very close together, some just a few seconds apart, so don’t overrun your objective.
The orienteering skills of thumbing the map where you move your thumb along to indicate the “you are here” position), and orienting the map (by rotating it to match the terrain in front of you) will be very useful. Read about these two important skills in more detail on our “Beginner’s Guide” page.
Please bring: a change of clothes/shoes. Corn mazes can get muddy!
Times
Map handout - 7:00-7:45 (Yes, it's early! )
Instructions - 7:50am
Mass Start - 8:00am
Course Closes - 9:00am
Costs - (prices include the $8 entrance fee into the Pumpkin Patch maze)
$25 base price - individuals
$30 base price - groups of 2 or more
- Subtract $5 for membership in CROC or other O-club
Directions and map to event site
45.6415, -122.7895
Latitude longitude coordinates of the event site. Copy and paste these into a mapping app on your phone or Google maps to get a map and driving directions to this location.
Driving time from Portland city center is about 30 minutes.
16511 NW Gillihan Rd, Portland, OR 97231
From Portland City center:
Drive west on Highway 30 about 9.7 miles.
Take a right turn and cross the bridge across Sauvie Island.
Take an immediate left, circle under the bridge, and go about 2.3 miles on NW Gillihan Rd to the Pumpkin Patch.