McCarthy Woods Summer Orienteering

Map: McCarthy Woods

Meet Director: Anne Teutsch | Controller: Eric Teutsch

Hello Orienteers!

Event #5 of 6 in our Summer Sprint Series is next Tuesday, August 10 at McCarthy Woods. View the meeting location. The map has a new added section to it, which the long course will explore a bit. The map is not mapped to sprint standards, but we’ve tried to set some fun fast courses for our evening event. The short course will keep to the nice open woods with its busy trail network on the west side of McCarthy Road. The long course uses both that same section of forest and an urban park on the east side of McCarthy. With apologies to some and “you’re welcome” to others, there are somewhat longish legs to get from one section to the other and then back again. Due to Wild Parsnip having staged a coup on much of the open land, we won’t be using the semi-open fields on the western portion of the map.

Distances (straight line distances)

• Short course: Approximately 2.2 km
• Long course Approximately 3.6 km

Dress code: You will be in the forest for all of your race for the short, and about half of the course for the long. We have avoided most of the wild parsnip but there is a bit along the edge of one trail on the long. We would recommend long pants, but wouldn’t say it’s a must.

Don’t forget to register online by Monday end of day!

Anne and Eric Teutsch

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