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Urgent News for Hemlock Overlook Today

All roads through the town of Clifton, VA are closed today. Please find an alternative route.

Hemlock Overlook and Dorey Park Results Available

Results and Route Gadget (where you can draw your route or view those of others) are now posted for the Hemlock Overlook event. In case you missed it, results from the Oct. 3 Dorey Park meet are also posted. Great job by both volunteer crews! Here are direct links to the Dorey Park and Hemlock Overlook Park results.

QOC Board Meeting

Some people will do anything to avoid a meeting, but really, at least the ones we hold beat many alternatives! The next QOC Board of Directors meeting will be held this coming Tuesday, Oct. 19 in Fairfax, at the house of Gary Smith, our VA VP of Competition. Food will be served starting at 7pm, and the meeting will go from 7:30 - 9:30. Please let Gary know by Monday if you will be attending; he'll email you address details.

QOC Medalists from US Classic Champs

Running amidst beautiful fall colors and on a very challenging new map, QOC members brought back 9 medals from last weekend's Classic Champs orienteering competition, hosted by EMPO. The terrain bore little resemblance to any of our local venues; it featured highly complex contour and rock detail, quite indistinct trails, many marsh/reentrant drainages, and yet was often surprisingly fast and runnable. A touch of Scandinavia right in upstate New York! Based on combined times from the Saturday and Sunday courses for their age classes, congratulations are very much due to the following QOC…

Mo-vember's a-Comb'ing!

Yes, that's right - we're almost at the end of this month, which means Movember is almost hair! QOC member David Onkst would like to invite fellow Y-chromosome carriers to take advantage of the once-a-year chance to be part of the QOC Team in the worldwide Movember charity event. Full details are best appreciated via this link to a PDF document of his explaining what it all means. Rogaine anyone?