Prince William Forest Classic Day Event
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Sunday
Our PWF Weekend concludes with a regular day event open to all, followed by the QOC Winter Meeting & Potluck, also not only open to all and offering day-of "at event" registration, but also where we hope to see you!
The Orienteering: a complete set of courses (including beginner, intermediate and advanced courses), with details posted below. In case you are wondering, these courses are completely independent of the Night-O courses and don't share controls. Event timing will be our standard: register any time between 10:45 - 1:15, start between 11 - 1:30, and be done in time for our Winter Meeting or at least by 3pm.
PARKING UPDATE: Please be aware that the the popularity of our training weekend is putting a severe strain on the available parking. Please carpool if possible. Do not park on the park roads themselves (or you'll get a ticket). When arriving at the event, please follow the instructions of any parking volunteer and give yourself enough time to walk from what could be a quite remote parking area.
Starting at around 2pm, the QOC Winter Meeting and Potluck will take place. Come celebrate many of our recent volunteers and hear about upcoming events, activities and opportunities. Even if you're not running, come for the party. Please bring your favorite dish/lunch food to share. There is a refrigerator for our use, as well as a stove if you need to heat up your food (just be sure to bring your own cooking dishes/pots). You can also bring crock pots. QOC will provide paper goods, non-alcoholic drinks, and desserts. And of course we'll recognize volunteers and have some cool door prizes (must be present to win!).
And if you're interested in staying overnight Saturday in the group cabins (whether or not you run the Night-O on Saturday night), make sure to register in advance - see the details on the Training Weekend webpage.
| Location | Prince William Forest Park, Camp 5 - Happyland, Triangle, VA (Day-O) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Registration | No advance registration required. Just show up and have fun! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Start Times | Start any time between 11am - 1:30pm. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Schedule | Sunday, February 28
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| Course Details | Day-O
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| Course Notes | Day-O Map scale is 1:7,500 for white and yellow, 1:10,000 for all other courses. All courses share a start adjacent to the dining hall. White and yellow also finish there. All other courses have a remote finish perhaps 600m away. After punching the finish, walk or jog east along the trail to the bridge over the creek, cross, and continue following the most prominent trail up to the cabin camp. Don't forget to download in the dining hall. White and yellow stay in or near Cabin Camps 2 and 5. All other courses head out for a tour of varying length of the western part of Prince William Forest Park, excluding the area occupied by Saturday's night-O. This is some of QOC's most technically interesting terrain. Runnability and visibility are usually good in winter but there are thicker areas, usually consisting of the normal mix of evergreen species for the area, that are still fairly accurately shown on the map. Although you may encounter some unmapped new deadfall and some areas of dense though not impenetrable saplings in the woods to the west of the west side of the park's Scenic Loop Drive, where a forest fire occurred approximately a decade ago. The terrain is generally less steep than the night-O terrain and other steeper areas in the center of the park so estimated climb numbers aren't specially high. The orange and advanced courses all cross the south fork of Quantico Creek north of Cabin Camps 2 and 5. Attempting such a crossing at random, or based purely on the original map, is likely to result in getting your feet quite wet. The brown course has been designed so that an obvious mapped bridge is the logical crossing point. For the benefit of participants on the other courses, easier crossing points of the creek have been marked on the map using the magenta crossing point symbol. Such points will feature either a log crossable by a reasonably surefooted orienteer or a shallow area where a crossing can be made with two or three running steps in water approximately ankle deep. You are advised to go to the westmost such indicated crossing point that looks like a sensible route choice and, if it doesn't suit you, to proceed eastwards until you find a crossing point that does. If none of them are your cup of tea, I apologize for your loss of time and you'll eventually fetch up at the bridge the brown course relies on. Jon Torrance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Entry Fees | Individual Entries
Note: juniors = under 21
Team or Group Entries Participants are welcome to compete together as a single team entry. Teams containing one or more nonmembers are charged the nonmember individual rate. Teams containing one or more adults are charged the adult individual rate. For teams to receive member or junior rates, all members of the team must be members or juniors, respectively. Each extra team map beyond the first is an additional $2. Individuals or teams desiring to compete on a second course can do so for a reduced fee of $2/map. Important Notes
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