Wesley Clover Parks Ski-O/Snowshoe-O Winter Series
January 28th 2023 10:00am - 2:00pm
Map: Wesley Clover Parks - Corkstown Rd
Meet director Andrew Cornett, Controller Cherie Revells
Dust of your ski-O map holder, Orienteering Ottawa's first event of the winter season is on Saturday Jan 28 at Wesley Clover Parks! The old ski-O map of WCP has been expanded and updated for this event. The terrain offers a fairly compact network of ski trails, mostly groomed for both skate and classic technique, plus a separate network of snowshoe trails. The 20cm of new snow falling as I write this should yield excellent conditions on Saturday.
Five courses will be waiting for you to discover:
- Ski-O Shortest - 2.7km - good for youngsters!
- Ski-O Short - 4.0km
- Ski-O Medium - 6.1km
- Ski-O Long - 8.4km
- Snowshoe - 4.1km
All courses will use a map with 2.5m contours printed at 1:7,500 scale.
Snowshoers are not permitted to use the groomed ski trails, whereas skiers may use all trails.
On-site registration will be available from ~9:45 inside the heated Kanata Nordic cabin. The Start window will run from ~10-11:15am. All courses will close at 12:30pm to make way for the Kanata Nordic youth program. All participants must return to the finish and download by 12:30.
Parking is available at 411 Corkstown Road, just east of the entrance to the Wesley Clover campground. Look for the red Kanata Nordic banner and the Orienteering sign at the entrance to the parking lot. Note that due to LRT construction, 411 Corkstown Rd. is only accessible from March Road in Kanata. Do not try to approach 411 Corkstown from Moodie Drive as Corkstown Rd. is closed to westbound traffic!
Looking forward to seeing you at WCP this Saturday