Bedwell Bayfront Park
Date: (Sun.) Jun. 15, 2014
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Event Director: 
- 650.281.5280
Course Setter: Phillip Hoare
Type: C; Variety of courses for beginners to advanced
Course Setter's Notes
By Phillip Hoare
The White, Yellow, and Orange courses use a standard orienteering map of the park.
The Brown, Green, and Red courses, however, use a "trail-less" version of the map. That is, a map where all of the various types of roads and paths, and other man-made objects, that are normally represented in black have been removed. We've done this because the extensive trail network at Bayfront makes navigating too easy. Without the trails on the map, you will have to rely on contours, vegetation, and point features. In addition to the man-made objects normally shown by black symbols, the following symbols are omitted from the Brown, Green, and Red maps:
- Brown triangle – Knoll or manhole cover
- Blue × – Gas well
The Bayfront map uses some non-standard symbols and uses some standard symbols in unusual ways. Be sure to read about this in the separate Map Notes (60KB/PDF). In particular:
- Boulder clusters and knolls are much smaller than one would expect, and thus are often difficult to see until you are very near them.
- Vegetation takes some practice to distinguish forest from distinct trees, light green from dark green, etc.
There is very little climb on any course.
Here are the details of the courses:
Course Distance Controls White 1.7 km 9 Yellow 2.7 km 12 Orange 4.2 km 16 Brown 4.4 km 18 Green 6.0 km 19 Red 8.4 km 22
Beginners should note that the course distances are measured along the straight lines between controls. You might not be able to, or want to, travel along those straight lines, and you might make mistakes, so your actual distance will likely be longer.