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Meet Director: Charlie Shahbazian
Course Setter: Rich Gaylord
Schedule:
| 9:30 a.m. |
Beginners' Clinic |
| 10 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-Registration |
| CAOC members |
$10 |
$7 |
| non-member |
$15 |
$10 |
| additional maps |
$3 |
| rental compass |
$1 |
| rental e-Punch |
free |
| purchase e-Punch |
$35 |
(We suggest a maximum of four people per group.)
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On-line registration is open until
midnight Thursday October 3rd.
Details:
We will have our five standard courses (White, Yellow, Orange,
Green and Red) so there will be something for people of every skill
level, from beginners to advanced. It is also National Orienteering
Week, so there will be some special awards and prizes for the kids.
If you are not familiar with the Lakewood Forest preserve, please
review these mapper
notes before participating in the event. We will be starting
from Shelter A this time (instead of Shelter E which we used last
year). Please use the Ivanhoe Road entrance and parking lot.
Course Setter Notes: UPDATED OCT
3rd.
For the October meet we will be using approximately 2 square kilometers
of newly mapped area that include the Winter Sports section of the
preserve. The resulting new, larger map - Lakewood South - that
now encompasses all the Lakewood Forest Preserve South of Route
176. We will be using a small section of this larger map we’ve
dubbed “Lakewood East“. We will start at Shelter A*.
All of the courses (except for a few controls on the Red and Orange)
for the October meet will be mostly in the newly mapped section
of the map that is reached via an existing pedestrian tunnel under
Fairfield Road. The area is mostly reclaimed farmsteads with some
remnants of fences buildings/ruins, dams still remain. With the
exception of the sledding hill area, it is gentle rolling terrain
with a few small reentrants and streams and is mostly an equal combination
of marsh, forest (pine and hardwood) and semi-open land. The area
is not a designated horse trail area, however, some private land
owners bordering the area do ride their horses in the area. The
main trail is heavy used by hikers, runners, and bikers. The numerous
large marshes and ponds in the area make for some narrow corridors
with limited route choice options.
Some random observations:
- The area has a good trail system from large to small in size.
The Millennium Trail has been improved in this area to be as large
as a small road - you cannot miss or go wrong using, this trail!
A five meter cleared buffer on each side of the wooded sections
of the trail further makes it obvious.
- There are many fences to be very, very cognizant of as you
compete off the trails. Most of fences are marked as crossable;
however, they will slow you down. The Red and Green courses will
cross a ruined 4 foot fence that is laying flat on the ground
making it easy to trip on. This fence will be streamered where
a route choice could encounter.
- Not as much junk in the newly mapped area.
- Most of the marshes (crossable and uncrossable) are fairly
dry (now), but the larger sections of these are still difficult
to cross.
- The runability in the woods is general not very good - slow
run to difficult to run.: most due to thick brush and of course
brambles. While the same mapping standards were applied as for
the existing Lakewood West map the woods and semi-open areas are
just not as open. Most of the semi-open fields have some tall
grasses in the Fall, but are still passable, and the small trails
passing through are visible only when running on them.
- There is a large semi-open/forested area on the very East side
of the map that will not be used for this meet. This area is best
suited for use in the late Fall into Winter or early Spring -
before June.
*Shelter A is best reached by going west on Ivanhoe from the intersection
of Ivanhoe Road and Fairview Roads. Approx ¼ mile West from
the Fairview/Ivanhoe intersection there is a large parking area
on the north side of the road. Shelter A 50 meters north of the
parking lot.
Additional information about Lakewood can be found in the mapper
notes from last year.
Directions:
From Route 176, turn south on Fairfield Road. Go south to Ivanhoe
Road and turn right (west). Turn right into the first forest preserve
entrace. Look for the orienteering signs to direct you to shelter
A.
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