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| Meet Director and Course
Setter: Michael Collins
Schedule:
| 9:00 a.m. |
Beginners' Clinic |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Registration and Start |
| 12 p.m. |
Registration closes |
| 2 p.m. |
Courses close |
(Maximum time on course: 3 hours)
Cost: (per individual or team)
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Event Day
Registration |
Online
Pre-Registeration |
| CAOC members |
$10 |
$7 |
| non-member |
$15 |
$10 |
| additional maps |
$3 |
| rental compass |
$1 |
| rental e-Punch |
$5 |
| purchase e-Punch |
$35 |
| Canoe Rental |
$15 |
(We suggest a maximum of four people per group.)
On-line registration is now closed. Please pay on-site. If you have a group coming, please contact the registrar.
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Details:
Please join us for the seventh annual Chicago Area Orienteering
Club Canoe-O. This event is designed to test your paddling skills
as well as your orienteering skills.
As a reminder, as a special group event, the Canoe-O is not included in the season pass.
The controls will be scattered around the south pool, with its
many inlets and islands.
We will be using ePunch, so bring along
your SI chip/card/stick. Sticks can be rented for $5 for the day,
or purchased for $35. The course can be done without ePunch, but
you will not have your time recorded or posted on the web site.
You still need to check in and out so that we know you have safely
returned.
There will be three courses; a long course (~6
km) which should take the fastest paddlers about 75 minutes to complete,
a medium course (~3.5 km) which should take just
under an hour, and a short course (~2 km) which
should take the fastest paddlers about a half hour to complete.
Of course, your results may vary.
We will also have a Sprint course this year, for those of you wanting a little more time in the woods. When registering, watch for the option to select a Sprint course in addition to a Canoe-O course length. The Sprint course is 2.3 km, and is designed for intermediate or advanced orienteers.
We will be keeping track of the number of people on each team,
as well as the type of watercraft, but there will not be
separate classes for single/double/canoe/kayak, etc.
Bring shoes that you don't mind getting dirty. You will
need to get out of your boat to punch at a few of the controls,
and you may need to wade for very short distances. A change of clothes
for afterward is highly recommended.
Canoe rental will be available at the start/finish. We have
arranged for 20 canoes to be guaranteed for our use. These will
be available for $15 (flat fee per boat) on a first-come-first-served
basis. Boat rental includes paddles and personal flotation devices
(PFDs). At this time, there are only boats available at 11:30 a.m. To help us use the rental canoes most efficiently, please arrive at least 15 minutes before your time-slot. If you missed the pre-registration, and you need to rent a boat, please arrive after 10 a.m., as all of our boats have been reserved at 9:30. You can arrive earlier, if you'd like to start with the Sprint course.
Competitors are welcome (nay, encouraged) to bring
their own canoes, kayaks, or rowboats. Please have your current
Illinois boat license already affixed.
Here are a few rules specific to Canoe-O (subject to change without
notice):
- For safety reasons (and canoe rental rules), no more than 2
adults may be in a rented boat, and every person must be wearing
a personal flotation device (PFD) at all times. If you
are in your own boat, you may have up to 3 adults.
- Competitors start and finish with all crew members and equipment.
One or all teammates may leave the boat during the event, but
at the finish line the crew, boat, and all equipment must be back
together again. This means that one teammate could run between
controls while another paddles.
- No swimming is allowed. Many controls
may be designated as "wet" controls, which means they
must be visited in a boat. If you have
any questions about whether a control is "wet" or "dry,"
please ask at the start/finish before you begin.
- No boat may be portaged along or across Higgins road, for safety
reasons. The courses have been designed to make this a very unfavorable
choice, anyway.
Hints:
- There will be some legs where paddling might not be your best
option.
- Running the entire course is not allowed. Some of the controls
will be on islands, and forest preserve rules prohibit swimming
in the reservoir.
- Controls (especially on the long course) will probably not be
visible from across the the water. However, other competitors'
boats will be visible.
Directions:
Take I-90 (Kennedy Expwy and Northwest Tollway) northwest of the
Loop 23 miles. Exit at I-290 / Route 53 southbound. Go about 1 mile
and exit at Higgins Road. Turn left and go about a quarter mile
to the first forest preserve entrance on the right. Watch for the
red and white orienteering signs to direct you to the registration
area, which is near the boat rental.
Public Transportation:
The Pace #208 bus runs every half-hour starting at 8:43 from the
Davis stop on the Purple Line in Evanston, or at 8:03 from the Des
Plaines Metra station. Twenty minutes after that the bus travels
along Golf Road which borders Busse Woods on the north. Another
option is the #606 Pace bus that leaves the Rosemont stop on the
Blue Line at 8:15 and 9:45 Sunday mornings and also takes twenty
minutes to get to Golf Road. Get off either bus near the I-90 overpass
over Golf. Walk west on Golf Rd and then south along the Salt Creek
embankment and into the fields and woods of the forest preserve,
and use an old orienteering map for guidance to get to the shelter
where the event is being held. On the way back to the City, I like
to stop for a hamburger and beer at Portillo’s or Chili’s
on Golf Road near the bus stop. An alternate route if you don’t
want to bushwhack is to get off the bus at Arlington Heights Road
and walk south to the bike path where it crosses Higgins Road.(under
1 mile of walking from the bus to the meet location)
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