Advance online registration is required for this event.
Registration opens March 8.
Quick info
Advanced online registration required, deadline March 27, 11:00pm
Courses: Five different courses for all skill levels.
Times: Map handout opens at 10:30. Start your course anytime between 11:00am and 1:00 pm. All courses close at 3 pm.
Everyone welcome, members, nonmembers, families, pets, and youth groups.
Courses set by: Mike Holliday and Anndy Wiselogle
Event director: Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Event Overview
Stub Stewart State Park is hilly and very forested and one of the meet director’s favorite local maps. The navigational and physical challenges for this event are higher than our typical local CROC meets, so choose your course with this in mind, and start early, especially for the advanced courses.
We use an electronic scoring and timing system known as “e-punch”. Each entry or team needs to have an e-punch stick. If you don't have your own e-punch stick, the rental cost is included in your registration fee. Using e-punch is easy. You can learn how at the event, or read about e-punch here.
CROC thanks our land management partner Oregon State Parks.
Courses
Preliminary Course Distance / Climb (color codes)
White: Beginner 1.8 km / 45m
Yellow: Beginner / Intermediate 2.6 km / 85m
Orange: Intermediate 3.7 km / 140m
Brown: Advanced Short 3.3 km / 120m
Green: Advanced Medium 4.3 km / 180m
The map scale is 1:10,000 with 5 meter contours and was recently re-field-checked by Mike Bruns and Nick Applemans so it is fresh and friendly and ready to go!
New to Orientering? Welcome!
Our events are open to both members and non-members. Beginners, families and dogs are welcome.
Have a look at our “New to O?” webpage, which covers just about every question you may have.
At most events, we offer free beginner clinics (they take about 10 minutes) to teach you everything you need to know. These are typically at half-hour intervals; choose your time slot on the registration page.
If you'd like to get reminders about upcoming events, sign up at our newsletter page. (No more than a couple of emails per month, we promise!)
Thanks for coming out and trying something new, we think you'll like it!
Times
Beginner clinics: 11:00 am and 11:30 am. Choose your preferred time when you register.
Course starts: anytime between 11:00 am - 1 pm
All courses close: 3:00 pm (controls will be picked up). Everybody must punch in at the finish and download their times even if they do not finish their course. This is how we make sure that everyone returns safely.
Venue Notes
This venue is a very hilly, forest park with lots of vegetation and stumps from past logging operations. The longer courses have substantial amounts of off-trail navigation often through areas with vegetation or debris from past forest thinning operations. Areas with vegetation are shown with different shades of green on your map; lighter green areas are easier to go through and darker green areas are typically best avoided as they are often impassable. Undergrowth areas are shown with parallel green lines; you can go through the areas with widely spaced green lines, but you should probably avoid the areas with tightly spaced green lines. Fortunately, much of the vegetation is still low to the ground from winter dormancy and snow pack, so it is somewhat easier to go through the vegetation in the early spring compared to the summer.
The eastern portion of this park is closed for forest thinning operations. The trails leading into that area are marked as closed. Do not use any closed trails.
The advanced courses are very physical so they were designed a bit shorter than normal. Anyone doing one of the advanced courses will navigate significant distances off trail. If you are doing the green course and prefer shorter off-trail routes up hills instead of longer trail routes, we recommend wearing shoes with studs.
Because of the heavy vegetation, we recommend that you wear long pants, long sleeves, and gaiters for doing intermediate and advanced courses.
Park ONLY in designated areas. Do not park along the side of the road, you probably will get a ticket, no fun. If the main day use parking area is full, continue about half a mile farther to the overflow parking at the end of the road.
When (not if!) you encounter pools of mud on the trail, please go around the mud. The park requests that we not make the mud pools worse by walking or running through them.
If you often take more than 2 hours to do your course, please start between 11 am and noon to be sure that you finish well BEFORE 3 pm. We recommend that anyone running an advanced course start before noon.
Registration and other costs
Park Fee: Oregon State Parks charges $10 for day use, $30 for a 12 month pass and $50 for a 24 month pass. The day pass fee may be paid at either the welcome center (one mile after entering the park) or at the "iron ranger" fee box in each parking lot (exact change required.)
Event Cost
$17 base price - individuals
$22 base price - groups of 2 or more
- Subtract $5 if you’re a member or CROC or other O-club (Join CROC)
- Subtract $5 if you have your own e-punch (Buy your own epunch)
Online registration link coming here soon
Livelox: GPS tracking and route reviewing tool
CROC uses Livelox, which is an interactive web based tool that enables you to see your exact route/track on the orienteering map, and compare them with other competitors.
Volunteers
All CROC events are put on by volunteers, and the meet director can almost always use some extra hands. Please keep in mind:
No prior experience is needed for many of the tasks
You can help out AND still run your course of choice
Typical ways to assist are: helping with starts and finishes, handing out maps, and picking up control flags after the course closes. Typical shifts are one hour.
If you'd like to help, you can choose a task and time shift when you register online. Thanks!
Results
Results are posted to the Events & Results web page a day or two after the event.
Driving directions and location
Latitude longitude coordinates of the event: 45.7414, -123.1864
Copy/paste these coordinates into Google or your smartphone mapping app to get a map and driving directions to the event.
Take Oregon Highway 26 23.8 miles from the intersection of Oregon Highway 217 in Beaverton to Oregon Highway 47 N (see the signs for Vernonia/Clatskanie).
Turn right onto OR-47 N and go 4.1 miles to the entrance to Stub Stewart State Park.
Turn right into the state park and go about 0.5 miles to the Welcome Center where you can purchase a day, 12-month, or 24-month parking pass for your car. If you already have a parking pass, continue to the next step.
Continue another .6 miles to the Hilltop Day Use parking area and park your car.
Note: If the Hilltop parking area is filled, drive .5 miles further to the Clayhill Horse Staging parking area (park along the side of that area and leave the center area open for horse trailers).