Teanaway Cup (Sept 28-29)

COURSE NOTES

Safety: All participants must carry a whistle on the courses.

Teanaway Cup takes place around Teanaway North Fork river, near the 29 Pines campground (free but Discover pass needed). All starts and finishes are from walking distance (but rather long) from the campground. Finish is relatively closer to the campground.

The venue is mostly forested where the vegetation ranges between open pine forests to dense thickets of vine maple and salal. The area is hilly and a long walk to start is needed to avoid too much climb on the course. The forest has burned two years ago and made the terrain in most cases more accessible. The forest has thorny underbrush in places; we recommend long pants and shin guards.

All courses have remote start: follow flagged route from the map issue point (start punch) to the start triangle (just flag, no punch there). Note: you have to follow the marked route to the start triangle flag, free route choice begins thereafter.

For successful navigation on all courses, except White, you should understand landforms and how these are represented on the map with contours. In particular, you should know what are re-entrants and spurs, how these are represented on the map and on the control description.

There are free-range cattle in the forest (and occasionally on roads!). Please be careful and try not to disturb them!

Day 1

Safety bearing: go west, down the hill, to the main road (North Fork Teanaway road).
Maximum time on course is 2 hours. You have to return to the finish after 2 hours from your start punch, even if you haven’t completed the course, and even if the course is not closed yet.
Map: The map for Day 1, Jack Creek North, is a completely new although small area. It covers a hillside that is rather flat and open near the campground at its western edge, and a lot of interesting landforms elsewhere. The lower part of the landscape is mostly open forest and wide open areas, elsewhere it ranges between open forest on spurs to dense vegetation in narrow valleys. The orienteers can encounter a few trails and a single forest road. It uses the ISOM 2017 symbol set with 1:10,000 scale and 5-meter contours.
Special Symbols: Green X is used most often for rootstocks, but also for stumps and logging debris piles. Green O is used for distinct trees.
Terrain and Vegetation: The map has fast and open meadows mixed with some open forest on a terrace near the main road, steeper slopes with some open runnable forest, and some less runnable terrain.
Courses: The courses are White-Blue Middle-distance courses according to OUSA guidelines. There is a marked route between two consecutive controls on the Beginner (White) course. Follow the tape, marked as a red dashed line on the map. The Advanced courses will have plenty of climb mixed with fast running in the flat part of the map. There is no water on the courses but there is water at the Finish.
Starts: The Starts are remote. Day 1 has a hike-in of 1.3 km (about 15 min walk) from the exit of the campground. The M21+ and F21+ classes will possibly have assigned start times with no start punch. Please check back on the event page for updated information. All starts will be run-in starts to the start triangle that will have a control but no punch. See the route to Start here.
Finish: The Finish is located on the east side of the paved turnaround near 29 Pines campground.

Day 2

Safety bearing: Go south in the Northern part of the map; go east in the Southern part of the map. Follow roads to finish.
Large swaths of the forest burned two years ago. Many stumps have completely burned out leaving large holes in place of roots. Be careful!
Maximum time on course is 3 hours. You have to return to the finish after 2 hours from your start punch, even if you haven’t completed the course, and even if the course is not closed yet.
Map: The map for Day 2, Jungle Creek is in most part the one used in Fall 2016, but it is somewhat extended to north-west, and updated because of the forest fires. In particular, a large number of dense brush, rootstocks, stumps, and fallen logs have burned away in places. The terrain offers a lot of different landforms from large open hilltops to partly overgrown depressions. The vegetation ranges between open forest to dense (dark green) brush, the latter is often in wetter areas but not exclusively so. The scale is 10,000 and the contours 5 meters.
Special Symbols: Green X is used for rootstocks or logging debris piles. Green O is used for a distinct tree or large stump/snag. A green filled circle is a small bush. A Ride symbol is used for various older roads that are sometimes overgrown and sometimes hard to follow.
Ugly undergrowth (happens sometimes) – in some cases salal (or similar) is obstructing the way. When it is nearly impossible to cross, the darkest green color is used. Undergrowth symbols are used when salal is close, or when need to run around salal. Usually navigation around is possible.
Courses: There are marked routes between some consecutive controls on Beginner (White) and Yellow courses. Follow the tape, marked as a red dashed line on the map. The rest of the courses will have a middle feel to it – there will be some longer legs, but the Long will have a Middle feel to it; the courses are designed to maximize the control count. There are many controls on the map. Check the control codes and make sure you punch the correct one.
Water: The Green, Red, and Blue courses have 2 water locations. Brown and Orange have one water station. Orange and Yellow courses have water in a checkpoint close to finish. White has water available at finish only.
Starts: Start is roughly 30 minute walk from the campground (and largely uphill). The Starts are remote. Day 2 has a hike-in of about 2 km from the exit of the campground. See the route to Start here.
Finish: The Finish is located about 0.5 km northwest along the road from the campground.

Course details:
Day 1

Day 2