Race
Details
Maps
Friday Sprint maps will be 1:4000, 2.5 meter contours for all courses.
Long and Middle Maps will be
1:10,000, 5 meter contours for most courses. Some courses (white, yellow, brown) at Carter
Caves (Sat and Sun only) may be printed at 1:7500 (to be determined).
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
(subject to change)
|
Course |
Classes |
Friday
– Sprint Morehead |
Saturday
– Long Carter
Caves |
Sunday
-
Middle Carter
Caves |
|
, |
Course
Setter |
Ben
Hart |
Shin
Shimizu |
Dave
Waller |
|
1
White |
F-10,
F-12, F white, M-10, M-12, M white, Group white |
km,
m |
km,
m |
km,
m |
|
2
Yellow |
F-14,
F yellow, M-14, M yellow, Group yellow |
|
|
|
|
3
Orange |
F-16,
F orange, M-16, M orange, Group orange |
|
|
|
|
4
Brown A |
F65+,
F70+, F75+, F brown, M 75+, M brown, all 80+ classes |
|
|
|
|
5
Brown B |
F-18,
F55+, F60+, M65+, M70+ |
|
|
|
|
6
Green A |
F35+,
F40+, F45+, F50+, F green, M green |
|
|
|
|
7
Green B |
F-20,
M-18, M50+, M55+, M60+ |
|
|
|
|
8
Red |
F-21+,
M-20, M35+, M40+, M45+, M red |
|
|
|
|
9
Blue |
M-21+ |
|
|
|
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, 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 at least one control
with drinking water on long courses of orange length and above. Please use the cups provided and dispose of
them in the bag or bin provided. There
will not be water on the course for the sprint or middle.
Time Limits
Time limit will be 1 hour for the
Sprint on Friday, 3 hours for the Long on Saturday, and 2 hours for Middle
Distance on Sunday.
Friday – Morehead State
University
Middle Distance, ALL maps will be
1:4,000
Parking
is TBD.
Restrooms
will be TBD.
Walk
to the start is TBD.
Course notes and special symbols:
ISSprOM
standards
Notes TBD
Saturday and Sunday –
Carter Caves State Park
Parking
TBD.
Parking will be tight, please
park close together and carpool if possible.
At the lodge, Please leave the parking spaces in front of the
lodge for lodge guests. Park
either in the lots to the right before the lodge, or continue past the lodge
through the turnaround circle, and up the hill to the golf course parking
lot. The Visitor Center parking lot
must also be left open for non-orienteering park guests. (You may use the visitor center parking lot
for X-Cave tours or visiting the Visitor Center, Please do not use the visitor center
lot for race parking).
Restrooms
TBD
Walk
to the start TBD
Saturday
Long – Preliminary: walk to start for WY is under
500 meters; other courses will have a walk of over 2 km, mostly road, but 600m
of trail. There are no restrooms at
either start.
Sunday Middle – Preliminary: walk to
start for all courses is around 750 m.
WY will have a separate start, but the call-up areas are within 150
meters of each other. There are no restrooms
at either start, and the woods are very open.
Map and Course Notes for both Saturday and Sunday
The Carter Caves map was made for
the 2015 U.S. Middle and Long Championships.
It had minor updates for another event in early 2019. The map is still excellent, with just a few
minor recent edits to vegetation, paths, and a few manmade features. The golf course was closed in 2018, and is
mapped as rough open, and except for a few small patches is not difficult to
cross.
Terrain is very steep and
rocky. In places, there are rock cliffs
as high as 20 meters or more. Be
extremely careful approaching any mapped cliff from above. There are also several natural arches, and
you may cross either over or under some of them on your courses.
Carter Caves is named for its many
caves. Some of them are huge openings in
the sides of hills; others are just holes in the ground, with the bottom of
unknown depth in the darkness far below.
A black “v” symbol (rocky pit) may be a large, visible pit, or it may
simply be a hole in the ground. In
either case, exercise extreme caution, as the pit may be quite deep. Some small depressions (brown u) and pits
(brown v) may also have openings in the bottom.
White and light green vegetation is
generally quite runnable. Medium green
may be younger, denser trees or patches of brambles, but usually is also not
too difficult to cross. There are a few
areas of rhododendron or mountain laurel, mapped as medium or dark green. Advanced courses may see some larger areas of
medium to dark green which may be scrubbier and thornier.
Embargo Note: After finishing Saturday’s Courses,
…TBD . Embargo will be lifted ONLY for the areas of…
TBD so that you may visit or re-visit these spectacular locations.
updated
2022-02-04 2318