PWF Pine Grove NRE

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Course Notes

Start: 600m from the event center.
Finish: Next to the event center.

From the park authorities:
“All participants, if they find anything of historical interest (other than modern trash) are to leave it be. If they want to take a picture, and note the location, and forward on to QOC that would be great.”

River crossing:

The Blue, Red, Green, Brown and Orange courses cross South Fork Quantico Creek. The courses are designed to have a bridge option for crossing it. There are sections of the river mapped with the uncrossable stream bank symbol. As on 11/4/2024 the water level was low and the sections of South Fork Quantico Creek that are mapped as crossable were easily crossable. In some areas you might get your feet wet but nothing dangerous, but caution must be taken since there are some areas with deeper pools of water. Any rain the days before or during the event might affect the river water level.

The Blue, Red, Green courses have river crossings where there is a road bridge that can be used. The bridge doesn’t have a separate section for pedestrians, so please watch out for traffic if using the bridge.

Most gullies, reentrants, and small streams were dry a week before the race, even ones that are mapped as a watercourse. Rain is expected on Sunday which might change that.

Road crossings:

The Blue, Red courses cross park roads; be careful when crossing.

The Yellow course has a section that goes on the road. Please be mindful of cars on the road. New Update: Yellow course orienteers might encounter a barrier along one of the paths; please ignore it and just go around it.

Refreshments: Water will be available on the courses. The Blue, Red, and Yellow courses have a refreshment point that is on another course's control, marked on the map as a cup symbol.

Clothes drop off: will be provided at the start.

Vegetation:

In some areas there is intensive deadfall. Most of the course legs avoid these areas but there are a couple of legs that cross such areas. Competitors will generally do best going around deadfall mapped as Slow Walk when possible.

Miscellaneous:

There is currently construction on the playground near the event center. It is mapped as out of bounds on the map and it does not affect any courses.

There are some instances of old telegraph wire on the ground. These have been flagged where found.

Several out of bounds areas (campground, maintenance area, ranger residence, other) have been designated by the park. They are shown on the map but are not flagged. Some may be sections in open forest. Under penalty of disqualification, please use the map to keep an appropriate distance from all of these areas, especially where there are easy to identify buildings and roads.

Map notes:

• Older, smaller rootstocks have been removed. Root stocks are 1.5 meter or larger when mapped and use the green X symbol. The majority of root stocks were checked in 2023. It only takes one root sticking up higher than 1.5 meters to be mapped. Mapped root stocks having small root balls but one root sticking up may appear below the mapping threshold from a distance. There are other root stocks close to 1.5m that are not mapped.
• Green Slash is mostly downed trees/branches. Some of the smaller areas are mapped as “walk” instead of “slow run” so they can be seen on the map. The smaller areas can be run through but the larger areas will slow a person down. A fallen trunk symbol is not used. Instead, the large difficult to cross trunks are mapped using green slash symbol. Virtually all of the deadfall was mapped as low vegetation. However, there are many instances of it being too tall to see over or too tall to run through.
• Mapped cairns in the park are typically well below 1m.
• Ditches tend to be shallow.
• Some mapped intermittent streams are predominantly dry unless in heavy rain.
• There are some old trails and road cuts. Generally, they are not mapped (as rides or roads) unless they are deep enough to be mapped as a ditch.
• Following current mapping standards, large steep earth banks use the Uncrossable Cliff symbol.
• There is an abundant use of form lines that makes the terrain look steeper than it is in reality.
• Leaf covered hillsides can be slippery. Spiked shoes are recommended.
• Telephone poles from old power lines were mapped with pieces of the powerline symbol but they look like small crosses (old grave symbols).
• Mapped rock follows ISOM 2017 standards of being at least 1m. Mapped boulders and cliffs are generally scarce.

Blue 1:15000 (M21)
Red 1:15000 (F21) 1:10000 (all others)
Green 1:10000
Brown 1:7500
Orange 1:7500
Yellow 1:7500
White 1:5000