Advance online registration is required for this event.
Makes things fast and easy for YOU on event day (no paperwork or payment)
Simplifies processing the results
Helps meet directors know how many maps to print
See who’s attending, maybe plan a carpool
Quick info
Advance online registration required, deadline Thursday, June 15, 11:00pm
Courses: Four different courses for all skill levels. Classic point-to-point orienteering format
Times: Map handout opens at 10:30. Start your course anytime between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm
Everyone welcome, members, nonmembers, families, pets, and youth groups
Event director: Brian Hauck
Event Overview
In the nearby coast range, Stub Stewart State Park is hilly and very forested. The new map of this park shows many detailed vegetation updates. There’s a $5 State Park day-use fee; annual passes are also available.
Note: to minimize our impact on the one main parking area, we will probably be running a car shuttle from a overflow lot a few minutes away. This of course is free and will just add a few minutes to your day, so please plan accordingly.
We have started using a competitor tracking system called LiveLox. To use it, you need to record a GPS track of your route during the event, and then upload the .gpx track file to the LiveLox website after the event. Then you can compare your exact route with other competitors on your course, very cool. This is entirely optional, but fun to use.
We use an electronic scoring and timing system known as “e-punch”. Each entry or team needs to have an e-punch stick. If you don't have your own e-punch stick, the rental cost is included in your registration fee. Using e-punch is easy. You can learn how at the event, or read about e-punch here.
CROC thanks our land management partner Oregon State Parks.
Course Setter’s Notes
Stub Stewart State Park has many areas with vegetation and deep piles of deadfall branches. Your map indicates these areas with different shades of green for high vegetation/deadfall and parallel green lines for undergrowth. As with any venue, you can do a slow run or fast walk through the light green areas or areas with spaced green lines but you probably should avoid the areas with medium or dark green colors or crowded green lines as going through them will be very difficult or impossible.
If you are doing the intermediate or advanced courses, wear full length pants and, if possible, gaiters. Shoes with cleats are also recommended for going cross country on steep hillsides.
You will be sharing the park with horseback riders. Their horses can typically hear you before their riders hear you and they can be easily frightened when you step on and break branches or jump suddenly onto trails from off trail areas. If you encounter horseback riders, call out to them to let them know you are there and then keep talking so their horses know that you are a human being, not some dangerous animal. If you encounter horses on trails, it is typically best to step aside and keep talking to the horses (or their riders) until they pass.
NEW TO ORIENTEERING? WELCOME!
Our events are open to both members and non-members. Beginners, families and dogs are welcome.
Have a look at our “New to O?” webpage, which covers just about every question you may have.
At most events, we offer free beginner clinics (they take about 10 minutes) to teach you everything you need to know. These are typically at half-hour intervals; choose your time slot on the registration page.
If you'd like to get reminders about upcoming events, sign up at our newsletter page. (No more than a couple of emails per month, we promise!)
Thanks for coming out and trying something new, we think you'll like it!
START WINDOWS
For this event we’re using assigned 30 minute start windows between 11 AM and 1 PM. This spreads participants over the entire two hour start window instead of a big rush at the beginning, easing the workload on event volunteers.
Please choose your start window during registration. The earlier you register, the better chance you have of a preferred window. If you arrive early for your start window, you may be asked to wait. If you're late, no worries, we’ll allow you to start when we have an opening. It's a guideline, not a firm rule.
TIMES
Beginner clinics: 11:00 am and 11:30 am. Choose your preferred time when you register.
Course starts: anytime between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm
All courses close: 3:00 pm (controls will be picked up)
(All teams must check out through the course finish area before leaving, even if the team does not finish the course or returns after the course closes.)
Courses
White: Beginner (about 2 km, on trail)
Yellow: Beginner / Intermediate (about 3 km, on-trail and near-trail navigation)
Orange: Intermediate (about 4 km, easier off-trail navigation)
Green: Advanced medium distance (about 5 km technical off-trail navigation)
REGISTRATION AND OTHER COSTS
Park Fee: Oregon State Parks charges $5 for day use, $30 for a 12 month pass and $50 for a 24 month pass. The day pass fee may be paid at either the welcome center (one mile after entering the park) or at the "iron ranger" fee box in each parking lot (exact change required.)
Event Cost
$17 base price - individuals
$22 base price - groups of 2 or more
- Subtract $5 for membership in CROC or other orienteering club
- Subtract $5 if you have your own epunch
Become a CROC member - Buy your own epunch
Livelox: GPS tracking and route reviewing tool
CROC is experimenting with Livelox. This is an interactive web based tool which enables you to see your exact route/track on the orienteering map, and compare them with other competitors.
By seeing the routes other people took, where you went, and where things went good or bad for you, you can learn and become a better orienteer.
To use this tool, you need to record a GPX track while you are on the course. This can be done with many phone apps and GPS watches. After the event, you can log into your free account, upload your track, and review your course.
See a link to the Livelox tracks from the Results page.
Questions? Email John Crowther
VOLUNTEERS
All CROC events are put on by volunteers, and the meet director can almost always use some extra hands. Please keep in mind:
No prior experience is needed for many of the tasks
You can help out AND still run your course of choice
Typical ways to assist are: helping with starts and finishes, handing out maps, and picking up control flags after the course closes. Typical shifts are one hour.
If you'd like to help, you can choose a task and time shift when you register online. Thanks!
Results
Results are posted to the Events & Results web page a day or two after the event.
Driving directions and location
Latitude longitude coordinates of the event: 45.7414, -123.1864
Click these coordinates for a Google map link, or copy/paste these coordinates into Google maps or your smartphone mapping app to get a map and driving directions to the event.
Take Oregon Highway 26 23.8 miles from the intersection of Oregon Highway 217 in Beaverton to Oregon Highway 47 N (see the signs for Vernonia/Clatskanie).
Turn right onto OR-47 N and go 4.1 miles to the entrance to Stub Stewart State Park.
Turn right into the state park and go about 0.5 miles to the Welcome Center where you can purchase a day, 12-month, or 24-month parking pass for your car. If you already have a parking pass, continue to the next step.
Continue another .6 miles to the Hilltop Day Use parking area and park your car.
Note: If the Hilltop parking area is filled, drive .5 miles further to the Clayhill Horse Staging parking area (park along the side of that area and leave the center area open for horse trailers).