Lake Accotink
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Welcome to the first event of QOC's Sept. - June season! We've got quite a full season, including a national championships hosted by our club in November in a part of the Quantico Marine Base normally closed to the public. So start getting your orienteering skills back up to par at our season opener right here at Lake Accotink.
Event timing will be standard - register at the event anytime between 10:45am - 1:15pm, start your course any time between 11am - 1:30pm, and be sure to be back no later than 3pm. The courses will be less standard - there will be classic white, yellow and brown courses on offer but all advanced and intermediate orienteers, who may feel they've done Lake Accotink to death, are invited to try it freshened with a twist on the familiar score-O format.
New to orienteering? We always hold (free) beginner clinics from 11:00 - 1:00 upon request; just tell the friendly folks at registration if you'd like to be part of one. Also, make sure to check out our Your First Event and For Beginners webpages, and if they don't answer any question you have, just use our Contact Us form and ask away!
Group Leaders: please see our For Group Leaders webpage and then contact us so we can get you registered in advance.
Additional Information:
- All Orienteers: White and yellow courses will start within a stone's throw of the registration area. All other courses will start and finish near the dam, a few hundred meters walk away from parking and registration. Please plan accordingly. Also, note which pavilion we are using and how to get there (below); it is not the flat parking area near the train overpass that we more commonly use.
- The score-O time limit will be 75 minutes, and all controls will count equally.
- Contour interval for all maps is 5m.
- The hours for the Lake Accotink carousel, boat rentals, miniature golf, bike rentals and snackbar are likely to be Noon - 7pm at this time of year. More park details are here.
- Dogs are welcome in this park but must be kept on leash at all times.
| Location | Lake Accotink Park, McLaren-Sargent Pavilion, Springfield, VA (Classic and Score-O) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Registration | No advance registration required. Just show up and have fun! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Start Times | You may start your course at any time during the start window listed below for your event. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Schedule | Sunday, September 10
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| Course Details | Classic and Score-O
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| Course Notes | Classic and Score-O White and yellow will be conventional point-to-point courses, with start and finish close by the registration and parking. Brown and the score-O course will have start and finish located adjacent to the dam at the south end of Lake Accotink, a few hundred meters west of parking and registration. You may use the white and yellow start and finish if you like, of course, but this will definitely not confer an advantage. The score-O course will be offered in plain vanilla format - find as many controls as possible within the time limit, in any order - for intermediate orienteers and any advanced orienteers who prefer that format to the alternative - a dogbones score-O. We're importing this format from the storied Vancouver Sprint Camp - a distant origin at the even more storied Barebones Orienteering Festival is suspected but unconfirmed. It's score-O except that the controls must be taken in pairs, the control circles for each set of paired controls being linked by a line. Therefore, once you've punched a control, you must head to the other control it is paired with in order to get credit for finding them both, before you can proceed to another pair of controls. Be careful to check codes before punching, the scoring will assume that if you punch any other control before completing a pair, you did so with the intent to abandon the pair you were working on and move on. Controls will all be worth one point each. The time limit will be 75 minutes, with a one point penalty assessed for every 2 minutes over the time limit. It is likely but not yet absolutely settled that white and yellow will be printed at a scale of 1:5,000; all other courses at 1:7,500. The contour interval for all maps will be 5 meters. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Entry Fees | Individual Entries
Note: juniors = under 21
Team or Group Entries Participants are welcome to compete together as a single team entry. Teams containing one or more nonmembers are charged the nonmember individual rate. Teams containing one or more adults are charged the adult individual rate. For teams to receive member or junior rates, all members of the team must be members or juniors, respectively. Each extra team map beyond the first is an additional $2. Individuals or teams desiring to compete on a second course can do so for a reduced fee of $2/map. Important Notes
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