Fôret Limbour Forest Fall Series

The last foot-orienteering meet of the local fall season is Sunday, Nov 9^th on the new Forêt Limbour map, developed by Jeff Teutsch for Collége St. Alexandre. The start / finish / registration will be at Centre communautaire Limbour in Gatineau QC map (288 Chem. Lebaudy, Gatineau, QC J8V 2H2) . The courses for the event are:

• Novice: 2.2km and 10 controls,
• Intermediate: 3.1 km and 12 controls,
• Advanced Short: 4.5 km and 12 controls, and
• Advanced Long: 7.3 km and 16 controls with a map flip.

All maps are printed at 1:7.500 with 5m contours.

See you on Sunday!

Peter Laurich (meet director) and Rikard Andersson (controller).

Here is some more information about the map and terrain (generally) extracted from Jeff’s notes:

The Limbour forest terrain is quite varied with woods ranging from very fast to completely impassable. There are a lot of trails in the area due to the proximity to the suburban neighbourhood. There are some large ravines and a verity of nice point features (rocks, constructed features, etc.) that make for very nice orienteering.

Boulders and cliffs follow a 1m standard. Those that are less than ~1m are not included on the map.

There are some small vegetation patches (particularly clearings in thick green areas) smaller than the minimum standards in ISOM 2017. The thick areas are drawn relatively accurately in case anyone decides to go through but the insides of thick areas with a mix of medium and dark green is mostly based on lidar.

There are lots of big erosion-based earth banks that are drawn to shape without the tags because the tags would overlap and look messy. Where it fits, the banks are shown with a couple of tags. In extreme cases only and in a few spots along the river the earth banks are shown as cliffs. The earth wall symbol has been used for a variety of pseudo earth wall features in addition to more traditional ‘earth wall’: a beaver dam and a wooden stick wall type feature.

There are lots of trails of all kinds including some old atv/dirt bike tracks. A wide variety of symbols have been used to show these trails depending on what they look like in the woods. There are many examples of deep ruts and sunken trails filled in with water that are drawn in as streams or water pits and a break in the trail symbol.

A white or yellow cut-line background line is used behind trails that are full speed runnable when the surrounding forest is thicker. Trails in green that are overgrown don't have that white or yellow background symbol.

The olive-green symbol has been reserved for private property that looks visually like private property. Many residential properties extend into the forest. Those cases are shown in purple out-of-bounds hashing to limit confusion and risk of someone running into private property that they don't realise is private. The boundary of the olive-green areas matches what is visible in the terrain – a fence or hedge where there is one and solid black line where the edge of the property is obvious otherwise no specific edge of boundary symbol is used.

Sections of the various streams running though the map are shown in one of three shades of blue. The lightest shade of blue indicates that the stream is easily crossable. Medium blue without a black line at the edge of the stream indicates that the stream is crossable. Dark blue with a black line at the edge indicates an uncrossable section of the stream. Wherever a trail is shown crossing a stream, there is a bridge at the stream crossing.

Fall Series

Will this be the first time at one of our meets for the year? We will need contact information and signing of a waiver. By providing your personal information here in advance of the event, we can include you in our on-site database, give you a better chance to read the waiver before online acceptance, make the registration process faster for you and speed up registration for all. There is no charge at this point - the final registration and payment will be on-site on the day of the event. This must be done 48 hours before the event to ensure time to get it uploaded to the on-site database.

Recycle your map bag Drop your clean map bag into the recycle box below the download.

Meeting Point: The map below indicates only the general area of the event. In the week before the event, the map will be adjusted to display the exact details of our meeting point and other meet specifics will be posted.

Registration: 10am - 11:00am (Registration closes at 11:00 so the volunteer registrars can get out on course!)

Starts: 10:30 - 11:30

Finish: Courses close and controls are collected at 2pm. All participants must report to finish by 2pm.

Safety and Ethics: We encourage you to read our Safety and Ethics page to ensure a safe and enjoyable run.

We run rain or shine but if you have any doubts check this site for last minute changes.

New at orienteering or a bit rusty? Think you may need a quick review of map reading or some help with route planning? Join us at 10:30 for a 15 minute Mini-Intro to Orienteering. We ask that you arrive early enough to register for the event first so you have a map in-hand. The instructor will cover the event type, general procedures (SI stick, Clear and Check, finish process etc), safety information and basic map reading/navigation pointers. Look for the sign near the registration table and we'll see you there.

Water: Please bring your own water bottles. We will provide water, but limit the use of disposable cups. Please have your water bottles at the finish.

As always, make sure you do a careful tick check when you get back.

The following day visit our Route Gadget page to enter the route you took and compare to others or just have a look at how others tackled the course. -- a great learning tool.

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