Grand Beach Middle & Bike-O Wilderness
June 23rd 2012 1:00pm
Organizer: Pat Connors (Organizer)
Map: Grand Beach
There will be a Bike-O event in addition to a standard Middle Distance Foot-O event. Preregistration is required. Entries can be accepted up to and including Thursday, June 21. Call the organizer at 421-2465 (home) or 250-8634 (cell) and leave a message, e-mail to patrick.connors@shaw.ca or use the online registration through the side bars.
Map Scale: 1:10,000
Contours: 2.5 m
All competitors are required to have a whistle and SI timing chip. A limited number of these can be borrowed from the organizer at the time of on-site registration.
Travel north from the East Gate and follow the orienteering signs to the trail parking area. On-site registration will be from 12:00 noon to 12:30, with the first starts beginning by 1:00 pm. Park admission fees apply in addition to event fees of $10.00 for adults, $5.00 for juniors and $20.00 maximum per family.
There are shelters and toilets adjacent to orienteering parking lot.
Water will be available at the start/finish and at indicated controls on all courses.
Notes for Bike Orienteers:
-- Be prepared for a course over 10 km in length.
-- Due to the height of control stands, you will have to dismount at most controls to use your SI stick.
-- The printed map size is 11x17 (28 x 43 cm). If you are using a map plate on your bicycle, you will have to affix it there on your race time.
-- Recent heavy rains have caused severe erosion on some of the trails going down slopes. USE CAUTION.
-- There are deadfalls on some of the trails that may not be cleared by race time.
More information will be posted soon
