Annual Golden Goat and Golden Kid
Tilden Regional Park
Date: (Sun.) Mar. 29, 2009
Location: Berkeley, CA
Event Director: 
- 925.516.7622
Course Setter: Martin Kunz
Type: C; Extra long and strenuous courses; NO BEGINNER COURSES
Related Event Information
Course Setter's Notes Lifetime Goat Points through 2008 Last Year's Golden Goat Last Year's Tilden Park Event
Note: There will not be beginner courses at this special event. We apologize to those who would have liked to participate at the beginner level.
The annual Golden Goat and Golden Kid will be held this year on the Berkeley hills, at Tilden Regional Park. Martin Kunz will be the course setter for this event. Please be prepared for an interesting and challenging Goat.
Note: This event is for intermediate and advanced orienteers only. Be assured that plenty of drinks and snacks will be available at the Finish to replenish your energy.
This is a traditionally untraditional, long and hilly, mass-start event that is freely modeled after the traditional BillyGoat (http://www.billygoat.org/FAQ.html). Unlike regular Orienteering events, everybody starts at the same time on the same course, which considerably shakes up the strategies to be taken. In order to spice up the strategies, little map-candies, such as butterflies or optional forks, are thrown in.
The Golden Kid is a shorter version of the Goat. Typically, competitors can decide part way through the Goat course if they want to opt out of the Goat and do the Kid.
Location
Tilden Regional Park (new start location, please see directions below). The Assembly Area is in an open space off Lone Oak Road.
Note: This is not the location of previous events at Tilden Park.
There is a map here that has a "pin" marking the approximate location of the event. (To zoom in, click on the "+" icon three or four times, drag the map to place the Tilden Park "pin" near the center, and click on the "+" some more times.)
Courses
- Golden Goat – 11.6 km, 575 m climb
- Golden Kid – 6.6 km, 275 m climb
More information about the courses is available in the Course Setter's Notes.
Note: There will not be beginner (White/Yellow) courses at this event. We apologize to those who would have liked to participate at the beginner level. Please attend one of our "regular" events.
Event timetable
- 10:00 AM – Registration opens
- 11:00 AM – Mass start for Golden Goat and Golden Kid
- 2:00 PM – Awards ceremony
- 3:30 PM – Courses close
Fees
- Entry fee for club members – $10
- Entry fee for non-members – $15
- Compass rental – $1
- E-Stick rental – $3
Awards
Awards will be given to the first male and first female in both the Goat and the Kid.
Also, bragging rights will go to those who place well (or even just move up) in the Lifetime Goat Points ranking.
Driving Directions
Note: This event is not at the location of previous events at Tilden Park.
There is a map here that has a "pin" marking the approximate location of the event. (To zoom in, click on the "+" icon three or four times, drag the map to place the Tilden Park "pin" near the center, and click on the "+" some more times.)
From Hwy 24:
- Take the Fish Ranch Road Exit and go north on Fish Ranch Road for approximately 0.7 miles. Turn right on Grizzly Peak Blvd, and drive approximately 5.2 miles.
- You will arrive at a large intersection with Woodmont Ave on the right and Spruce street on the left. You need to take a small street at one o’clock, parallel to Grizzly Peak Road. This is Canon Dr.
- Follow Canon Dr for approx. 0.4 miles
- Turn Right onto Central Park Dr, and drive for approx. 0.1 miles
- Turn Left onto Lone Oak Rd, the assembly area will be right there.
- Park in the designated areas in front of the assembly area, or up the road.
From Hwy 80:
- Take the Buchanan (from 80 East) or Albany (80 West) exit.
- Follow Buchanan towards the East for 0.6 miles.
- Cross San Pablo, where Buchanan becomes Marin, and drive 1.5 miles.
- Marin passes a round-about and then gets very steep. Keep driving on Marin for 0.3 miles.
- Take a left onto Spruce, and drive 1 mile.
- Cross Grizzly Peak Blvd, and take a left immediately after it onto Canon Dr.
- Follow Canon Dr for approx. 0.4 miles
- Turn Right onto Central Park Dr, and drive for approx. 0.1 miles
- Turn Left onto Lone Oak Rd, the assembly area will be right there.
- Park in the designated areas in front of the assembly area, or up the road.