GPS/Orienteering Event in N-East Ohio

[+SherwoodForest]

there is a GPS-Orienteering course at an upcoming NEOOC event, this coming Sunday October 27th, 2002 in Hinckley Reservation of Cleveland MetroParks. The event starts at noon, and you can contact me for any further information.

 

"You will kneel before her in her altar in the trees" - Tara MacLean, Let Her Feel The Rain

[Team HSKK GPS]

So how did this event turn out? Was it a success? I would like to set a course in SW Ohio for OCIN and would like to know how your event was set up.

 

My thoughts would be to give participants a blank map and a few distant waypoints (4 of 9 green course controls) and have them mark the locations on the map. Most accurate wins.

 

Any information would be appriciated.

[+collinsorienteer]

I like your idea of having the geocachers mark the location on the map. It sounds like advanced trail-o. How would the GPS receiver be used?

 

The Chicago Area Orienteering Club just held an event which integrated geocaching and orienteering.

 

The geocachers downloaded the coordinates to the same 22 controls that the orienteers were looking for. Only, instead of a map with the control locations pre-marked, the geocachers just received a blank map of the park, and a list of the control descriptions (including code numbers / waypoints).

 

It was a 6-hour ROGAINE, so everyone had 6 hours to get to as many of the locations as they could. The orienteers (as might be expected) tended to go faster and, therefore, collected a greater number of controls. None the less, the geocachers had a lot of fun figuring out the best way to get from point to point, while watching the orienteers dash through every now and then.

 

Snowgaine results

 

The terrain at the meet location was very challenging to both orienteers and geocachers. We plan to hold at least one more combination event in 2003.

 

The next event will likely involve loop courses, not scattered controls. So, the course will basically be a multi-cache with all of the locations specified ahead of time. The difference is that you can only log a multi-cache once; you can log a o-cache once per control that you find. Also, the controls are almost ridiculously easy to find for a geocacher: you can't miss an orange-and-white nylon bag hanging three feet of off the ground.

 

I encourage you to try out your idea. Let me know how it goes. I might even drive down from Chicago to join you for the event.

[+dwmurphy]

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=54531

 

We didn't finish the course, but had a blast anyway.

 

Also check out

 

http://www.ocin.org

 

is where you can get the results of the meet.

 

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