Race
Details
Maps
Friday Middle maps will be 1:10,000,
5 meter contour for red and blue courses. 1:7500 for white, yellow, orange, brown,
green.
Saturday and Sunday classic maps
will be 1:10,000, 5 meter contours for green, red and
blue courses. 1:7500 for white, yellow,
orange, brown, green.
See the description of each day
below for more specifics.
Courses
All standard USA courses and classes
will be offered.
Control Descriptions
Control descriptions are printed on
your map. Loose description sheets may
be picked up when you enter the call-up area, 2-3 minutes before your
start. Descriptions for white and
yellow courses are in English only.
Descriptions for orange course and above are in IOF symbols only.
Control Markers
Control markers will be IOF standard
orange and white flag. Control markers
will have a blue stripe, either diagonal or vertical.
Course Length (km) and
Climb (m) Table
Lengths
are straight line, climb is along “optimal” route.
|
Course |
Classes |
Friday
– Middle Cub
World at Camp Friedlander |
Saturday
– Classic Hueston Woods |
Sunday
-
Classic Hueston Woods |
|
, |
Course
Setter |
Shin
Shimizu |
Dylan
Poe |
Mike
Minium |
|
1
White |
F-10,
F-12, F white, M-10, M-12, M white, Group white |
2.0
km, 30
m |
1.9
km, 10
m |
2.1
km, 60
m |
|
2
Yellow |
F-14,
F yellow, M-14, M yellow, Group yellow |
2.7
km, 60
m |
2.7
km, 25
m |
3.0
km, 130
m |
|
3
Orange |
F-16,
F orange, M-16, M orange, Group orange |
3.1
km, 100
m |
3.7
km, 75
m |
4.7
km, 200
m |
|
4
Brown A |
F65+,
F70+, F75+, F brown, M 75+, M brown, all 80+ classes |
2.9
km, 60
m |
2.4
km, 45
m |
2.6
km, 120
m |
|
5
Brown B |
F-18,
F55+, F60+, M65+, M70+ |
3.1
km, 90
m |
3.1
km, 70
m |
3.0
km, 140
m |
|
6
Green A |
F35+,
F40+, F45+, F50+, F green, M green |
3.7
km, 140
m |
4.2
km, 85
m |
4.8
km, 220
m |
|
7
Green B |
F-20,
M-18, M50+, M55+, M60+ |
3.9
km 140
m |
4.6
km, 100
m |
5.2
km, 240
m |
|
8
Red |
F-21+,
M-20, M35+, M40+, M45+, M red |
4.7
km, 175
m |
8.2
km, 140
m |
7.3
km, 320
m |
|
9
Blue |
M-21+ |
5.4
km, 250
m |
10.0
km, 210
m |
9.4
km 390
m |
Start Procedures
Clear and check your SI card when
you arrive in the start area.
You will be called up 3 or 4 minutes
before your scheduled start.
2 minutes before your start, you
will move forward and may pick up loose control descriptions. White and yellow may pick up their maps,
mark name/number on the map, and preview the map.
1 minute before your start, you will
move forward to the map line. You may
mark your name / number on the back of the map.
Do not look at your map (white/yellow may preview map). You may ask the starter to check that it is
the correct course.
When the beeper sounds, you punch
“start” and pick up your map.
There may (or may not) be a short streamered run to the start triangle shown on your map (to
be determined). You must run to the
triangle. There is a flag but no punch
at this point. At this point you may
begin navigating to your first control.
Drinking Water on
Courses
There will be limited water stops on
courses longer than 3 km. Water at
controls will be shown with a cup symbol on your descriptions. If water is not at a control, it will be
shown with a cup symbol on the map.
Time Limits
Time limit will be 2 hour for the Middle on Friday, 3 hours for the Classics on
Saturday and Sunday.
Friday – Camp
Friedlander, Cub World
Maps: Middle Distance
Parking
is a large grass field, 100 m to registration, 200 m to finish
Finish The finish will be close to registration.
Restrooms
will be modern, indoor near registration and finish. No facilities at the start. Look for a grey restroom building between the
cabins on the hill northeast of check-in and east of the finish.
Walk
to the start is 300 meters, with a steep uphill, 35 m climb. Allow at least 10 minutes, follow pink
tape. PINK tapes will mark the route to
the start. Ignore orange pin flags which
mark the route of a 5 km run which will take place on Saturday.
Clothing
Return Warm-up clothing may be left at the call-up
areas, and will be returned to the finish area.
Course notes and special symbols
Courses will not cross
any public paved roads, but will cross the gravel camp roads. There should not be any traffic on these
roads, but be alert in case of service or emergency vehicles.
Rootstocks are mapped
with the older brown X symbol. We’ve had some strong storms, so it is possible that there
are some new un-mapped ones, and some of the mapped ones may be deteriorating.
From Shin Shimizu, Course Setter:
There are so many controls in this
small area. Please make sure to check the control number every time when
you get to the control.
Saturday and Sunday –
Hueston Woods State Park
General
Notes for both days –
There are NO rootstocks
shown on the Hueston Woods map (even gigantic ones).
The terrain is mostly
typical Midwest ridge and reentrant, surrounding a man-made lake, with mostly
deciduous forest.
There is very little
surface rock. Almost all mapped boulders
are smaller than 1 meter.
Saturday’s area is
generally greener (thicker vegetation) than Sunday, although you will find both
thick and open areas on both days.
On Saturday, all courses
will experience a maze of twisty mountain bike trails.
On Sunday, all courses
will pass through the disc golf area. In
several places, the fairways through the woods are very open and are mapped as
white woods. Some fairways may have a
visible track on the ground, which is not mapped, but can easily be confused
for a mapped footpath.
Saturday
Classic –
Maps: Classic
Distance
Event Check-in Check in
(and recreational registration) will be outdoors near parking and finish.
Finish The finish will be
close to parking and registration.
Parking Park head-in or
backed in along the road on the roadside gravel or grass. Watch for soft spots.
Walk to the Start There
will be a roughly 1 kilometer walk,
beginning with a steep grass uphill segment, then mostly flat on trails.
Restrooms Pit toilets and
portable toilets are near parking, no restrooms at the start.
Clothing Return Warm-up
clothing may be left at the call-up areas, and will be returned to the finish
area.
Course notes and
special symbols
All courses will use
heavily used mountain bike trails.
Please be alert for bikers and show them courtesy.
Longer courses (orange
and above) may also use or cross horse trails.
If horses are encountered, please move off the trail (preferably on the
low side if the trail is on a slope), slow to a walking speed, and talk in
conversational tones to the horses and riders.
Longer courses (orange
and above) may cross a larger stream. In
most places, in normal conditions, the stream is ankle deep or less, but there
are deep pools to be avoided. A road
bridge is an optional route choice. If
there is heavy rain and stream conditions are deemed unsafe, the road bridge
may become mandatory, which will be posted at the start.
All courses will cross
the main park road at least twice.
Please be exceptionally careful of vehicle and bike traffic when
crossing. We expect very heavy use of
the park this weekend. Parts of the main
road also get some short-cutting use from local and commuter traffic.
Sunday Classic –
Maps: Classic
Distance
Event Check-in Check in
(and recreational registration) will be in the lodge parking lot.
Finish The finish will be
close to parking and registration.
Parking At the lodge, Please leave the parking spaces in the row closest
to the lodge for lodge guests.
Park in the parking lots farther out from the lodge. At present, there is renovation work in the
lodge, and there are a number of large shipping
containers in the parking lots, so we may be directing you to fill in spots
amongst the containers. Update: the
containers are supposed to be removed this week!
Walk to the Start Start will be adjacent to parking and registration
Restrooms Modern restrooms
are inside the lodge. Enter the lobby
and turn to the right. Additional
restrooms are located downstairs, go down the spiral staircase in the center of
the lobby.
Clothing Return No clothing
return. Warm-up clothing should be left in your vehicle, at registration, or by
the finish.
Course notes and
special symbols
All courses will pass
through an area that is heavily used by disc golfers. Golf tees are shown as a very small
rectangular paved area, and targets as a black circle. Please be alert for flying discs and show
courteous respect to golfers.
All courses will use or
cross popular hiking trails. Please be
courteous to other trail users.
Most courses (orange and
above) will use or cross horse trails.
If horses are encountered, please move off the trail (preferably on the
low side, if the trail is on a slope), slow to a walking speed, and talk in conversational
tones to the horses and riders.
Courses yellow and above
will cross the lodge or cabin roads, and may cross the main park road. Please be exceptionally careful with road
crossings. White course will cross a service
road which should not have traffic, and will briefly go along side of the lodge
or cabin road. Please be alert for
traffic.
Black X can be junk, a
bench, a park sign, or an electrical utility box. Black O is used almost exclusively for disc
golf targets.
The major power line is
mapped as rough open with areas of dark green (impenetrable) and double
vertical green lines for very thick undergrowth. This is mostly very nasty
thorny vegetation. Look ahead for gaps
with no green lines or only single green undergrowth lines. These gaps will give you a much gentler
crossing of the power lines.
updated
2024-04-04 at 2119