Calero County Park
Date: (Sun.) Oct. 2, 2005
Location: San Jose, CA
Event Directors: 
- 408.732.4818, - 408.688.4482
Course Setters: Dan Greene, Tapio Karras
Type: B; Regular 7-course BAOC event
Event Directors' Notes
Welcome to the Bay Area Orienteering Club's annual event at beautiful Calero Park. This year's event has a standard set of 7 courses (White through Blue):
Course Distance Climb Navigation Terrain
White 3.3 km 100 m Beginner Trails Yellow 2.8 km 100 m Adv. Beginner Mostly Trails Orange 3.9 km 240 m Intermediate Off-trail, Moderate Brown 2.9 km 225 m Advanced Off-trail, Moderate Green 4.1 km 300 m Advanced Off-trail, Hard Red 5.3 km 350 m Advanced Off-trail, Very Hard Blue 7.1 km 405 m Advanced Off-trail, Impossible
The Start and Finish are both short walks from the parking area. This will be the first time that we have used Zoron Krivokapic's new map in the near part, and it is loaded with new detail that you will not remember from the old map.
Calero is a great place for route-choice legs, and we hope we have included plenty of challenging route choices. However, with the new map we have also been able to use more technical features than usual, so we expect some of the controls to be very challenging, although there are still large open stretches that should produce fast times, especially on the Red and Blue courses.
Allow approximately 10 minutes to get to the Start. Registration, beginner's clinics, and e-punch download will all be in the parking area. The intermediate and advanced courses (Orange through Blue) will be using electronic punching, so don't forget your e-sticks. You can rent an e-stick at registration, if you don't own one.
Course participants should expect the usual schedule for local events. That is, registration opens at 9:00 am and closes at noon, starts from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm, short beginner's clinics from 9:30 am to 10:30 am. Courses close at 2:00 pm.
Important: Please remember that courses close at 2:00 pm. Even if you don't finish the course, please be sure to check-in at the finish (if you are on White or Yellow) and download your e-punch (if you are on Orange through Blue) so that we know you have finished and do not initiate a search for you.
New Map
Most of the Calero map has been remapped by Zoron Krivokapic. All the courses will be entirely on the new map, except the Blue course will have three controls on the older map. The maps are printed at a 1:10,000 scale with 25-foot (~7.5 m) contour intervals. Control descriptions are printed on the front of the maps.
The new map follows IOF mapping standards with the exception of Zoron's innovative "green T" symbol to mark fallen trees. The symbol is oriented to point the direction of the fallen tree trunk. You will find this useful in identifying down trees. Note that the "green T" symbol is fixed size, thus it only indicates the direction of the trunk, not its length. On the control description this will appear as a lone tree modified by the "ruined" symbol.
Blue Course Map
On the Blue course, the three northernmost controls are on the older part of the map. The mapping is still very good in this area, but you will notice differences in quality and in mapping conventions. On the older parts of the map a fallen tree showing roots in the air is mapped as a "brown X". A fallen tree without visible roots or a standing dead tree is mapped as a "green X". Many of these have deteriorated with time and may not be large enough to warrant mapping.
Warnings
With the dry weather, the grasses and loose soils can be slippery. Please be careful. We recommend O-shoes or cleats on the intermediate and advanced courses.
There is a moderate amount of poison oak in the park. It is very dry this time of year, which will reduce the risk of getting an allergic reaction, but without leaves poison oak can be hard to identify. If you have doubts, we recommend that you wash with something like Tecnu after the event.
The wild turkeys and deer are not participants in the event and should not be followed. They will not lead you to controls.
We hope you enjoy the courses!
Your event organizers,
Dan Greene
Tapio Karras