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, March 28, 11:00pm
Courses: Seven 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. All courses close at 3 pm.
Everyone welcome, members, nonmembers, families, pets, and youth groups
Event director: Mike Holliday and Marsha Holliday
Event Overview
The navigational and physical challenges for this event are higher than our typical local CROC meets. Choose your course with this in mind, and start early, especially for the advanced courses. More details below.
In the nearby coast range, Stub Stewart State Park is hilly and very forested.
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.
Courses
Course Distance / Climb / Climb%
White: Beginner 1.8 km / 45m / 2.5%
Yellow: Beginner / Intermediate 2.6 km / 85m / 3.3%
Orange: Intermediate 3.7 km / 140m / 3.8%
Brown: Advanced Short 3.3 km / 120m / 3.6%
Green: Advanced Medium 4.3 km / 180m / 4.2%
Red: Advanced Long 5.6 km / 235m / 4.2%
Blue: Advanced Very Long 7.2 km / 310m / 4.3%
Note: We recommend that anyone running an advanced course of any length start before noon. All courses close at 3:00 pm and control pick-up will begin.
The map scale is 1:10,000 and has 5 meter contours.
Course Setter’s Notes (by tony Pinkham)
This venue is a very hilly, forest park with lots of vegetation and stumps from past logging operations. The longer courses have substantial amounts of off-trail navigation often through areas with vegetation or debris from past forest thinning operations. Areas with vegetation are shown with different shades of green on your map; lighter green areas are easier to go through and darker green areas are typically best avoided as they are often impassable. Undergrowth areas are shown with parallel green lines; you can go through the areas with widely spaced green lines, but you should probably avoid the areas with tightly spaced green lines. Fortunately, much of the vegetation is still low to the ground from winter dormancy and snow pack, so it is somewhat easier to go through the vegetation in the early spring compared to the summer.
All courses go through or close to the Hares Canyon Horse Campground, which is closed to horse campers but open for us to use. The advanced courses will also go through the East Dairy Creek Campground which is closed to campers but open for us to use The West Dairy Creek Campground is open to campers so closed for our use and is shown as out-of-bounds on your map.
The eastern portion of this park is closed for forest thinning operations. The trails leading into that area are marked as closed. Do not use any closed trails.
Parking is in two lots. When we fill up the Hilltop parking by the check in area, then everyone else has to drive further up the road to the Clayhill parking lot and walk 3/4 mile along the road back to the Hilltop area. No parking is allowed on the road side. There is a day use parking fee of $5--if you need a day use parking pass, one can be purchased at either the ranger office shortly after entering the park or at a kiosk located by the restrooms at the Hilltop parking area.
The red and blue courses are very physical so they were designed on the shorter than normal. Anyone doing one of the advanced courses will navigate significant distances off trail. If you are doing the green, red, or blue course and prefer shorter off-trail routes up hills instead of longer trail routes, we recommend wearing shoes with studs.
Because of the heavy vegetation; we recommend that you wear the following for doing intermediate and advanced courses:
Eye protection (glasses or safety glasses)
Long pants and long sleeves
Gaiters
If you encounter pools of mud on the trail, please go around the mud. The park prefers that we not make the mud pools worse by walking or running through them.
Some of the other park users might be horseback riders. Their horses have very sensitive hearing and are easily startled by people stepping on branches. To keep from startling the horses, do the following:
If encountering horseback riders on trails, step aside to let them pass you.
If you are passing horseback riders, call out to them and let them know that you need to pass. Listen for and follow any instructions given by the horseback riders.
If you are off trail with horseback riders in sight, call out to the horseback riders to let them know that you are a human (not a bear) in the woods. Often it helps to keep talking until they are out of the area.
Fortunately, this event is scheduled when there are expected to be few horseback riders (the Hares Canyon horse campground is closed in March), so there will probably not be many horseback riders on the trails.
The courses close at 3 pm and we begin picking up controls at that time.
If you often take more than 2 hours to do your course, please start between 11 am and noon to be sure that you finish well BEFORE 3 pm.
If you realize that you cannot finish your course by 3 pm, immediately go to the finish as quickly as possible (BEFORE 3pm). Controls will be picked up at 3 pm so you cannot punch at controls after the closing time. Also, anyone not back by 3 pm is assumed to be hurt so we have to organize search parties to look for them.
Everybody must punch in at the finish and download their times even if they do not finish their course. This is how we make sure that everyone returns safely.
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.
Again, if you are doing an advanced course, please try to start before 12 noon.
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.)
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 if you’re a member or CROC or other O-club (Join CROC)
- Subtract $5 if you have your own e-punch (Buy your own epunch)
Livelox: GPS tracking and route reviewing tool
CROC uses Livelox, which is an interactive web based tool that 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).