Orienteering!

Now that the spring is getting close, orienteering is starting to look more attractive again! Here's an upcoming meet that's pretty close to home.

Emerald Hills

Redwood City, CA
Sunday, March 9, 2008

Event Type: (C) Street courses: White course and Score-O (Western
Massachusetts rules [i.e., find x of y controls])

Contact: Steve Haas, 650-281-5280, stephen.haas@jda.com

Latest Information: http://www.baoc.org/wiki/Schedule/2008/Emerald_Hills

Join us for a Street-O in the hills above Redwood City. You'll enjoy
the crooked streets and terrific views. We will have a standard easy
White course for families and beginners, and a more-advanced course: a
Western Massachusetts Rules Score-O.

The White course for families and beginners will be about 2.2 km long.

The Score-O will use the "Western Massachusetts Rules"--that is, there
will be 26 controls in the Emerald Hills neighborhood, and you will need
to collect a certain number of the controls in any combination. There
are five length categories that determine how many controls you'll need
to get:

Short any 5 controls
Medium any 10 controls
Long any 15 controls
Longer any 20 controls
Longest any 25 controls

You won't need to decide which category you are in until you finish.
But note that there is no bonus for visiting more controls than you need
(i.e., 9 controls puts you in the Short category with all those who
found only 5). The results for each category are based on time.

You can start either course any time between 10:00 AM and 12:30 PM.
Everyone must be back by 2:00 PM.

This is a good event for beginners, and short beginner's clinics will be
offered on request between 9:30 and 10:30 to give you enough information
to be able to complete the White course. Groups of 8 or more, adventure
race navigation training groups, scouts, home school groups, JROTC,
etc., please let us know at least a week in advance so that we'll have
enough maps printed.

Volunteers are needed for the clinics, Start, Finish, and results.

Come out and enjoy a winter day with us.

Driving Directions

Roy Cloud Elementary School (3790 Red Oak Way, Redwood City) is located
at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Emerald Hill Road. The entrance
to the main parking lot is off Red Oak Way. There is also a parking lot
off of Jefferson Ave, northeast of Emerald Hill Road.

From 280: Take the Farm Hill Boulevard exit, and go northeast (toward
the bay). After one mile, turn left onto Emerald Hill Road. Drive 0.3
miles, and turn right onto Red Oak Way. The school is on your left.

From 101: Take the Woodside Road (84) exit, and drive southwest (away
from the bay) on Woodside Road. Go about 1.3 miles. Follow signs to
CA-82 (El Camino Real) and drive north on El Camino Real. After 0.5
miles, turn left onto Jefferson Avenue. Go 1.7 miles, and turn left
onto Farm Hill Blvd. Continue on Farm Hill Blvd for one mile. Turn
right on Emerald Hill Road. After 0.3 miles, turn right onto Red Oak
Way--the school will be on your left.

Public Transit

SamTrans bus #274 runs hourly, leaving the Redwood City Caltrain station
at 35 minutes past the hour, and arriving at Farm Hill Blvd. and Emerald
Hill Rd. at 49 minutes past the hour.