BAOC Event: Stanford, 12/4/99

Stanford University, Palo Alto

Saturday, Dec. 4, 1999

At our annual Stanford holiday event, we'll have a full afternoon and evening of orienteering events. Starting at 2 pm, we'll have several Street-O courses, along with various orienteering clinics. In the evening, we'll offer Night-O courses and then the BAOC Social (potluck dinner) and Service Award. And, to top it all off, we're featuring the first annual Orienteer At Home tournament!

Schedule of Events

1:30-5:30	Orienteering clinics
2:00-4:00	Starts for White, Yellow, Orange, and Score-O courses
2:30-?		Orienteer At Home tournament
5:30 pm		Last finish for day courses
6:00 pm		Mass start for Night-O (50- and 70-minute courses)
7:10-10:00	Social (potluck dinner, BAOC Service Award, etc.)

The Social begins immediately following the end of the Night-O at 7:10. Please bring a dish of food to share, and enjoy sampling the contributions of others. The BAOC Service Award will be presented, and we'll have general merriment all around.

Volunteers are gratefully solicited for such tasks as registration, daytime control pickup, and Night-O control placement.

Orienteering Clinics

All clinics will be held in or near event headquarters, the Hartley conference room in the Mitchell Earth Sciences building.

1:30-3:30 Intermediate Skills Clinic - Aileen Abernathy

This clinic is for beginning and intermediate orienteers (White, Yellow, Orange) who want to improve their orienteering skills. We will cover effective map reading, route choice, navigation strategies (attack points, handrails, catching features, aiming off, etc.), compass use, pace counting, error detection and correction, and other techniques. Afterward, you can try your new skills on one of the day or night courses!

1:30-3:30 Map Making for Juniors - Nick Corsano, Vicki Woolworth

Learn how to make your own orienteering maps. It's a fun way to become better at orienteering. Recommended for children ages 12 and older.

3:30-5:30 Basic Training for Running - Ian Ramsey

Emphasis will be on helping inexperienced runners learn basic techniques to improve their running (specifically for orienteering).

3:30-5:30 Course Setter's Workshop - Evan Custer

This workshop is designed primarily for people who are interested in designing and setting courses, but feel that they do not have enough skills to do so. However, it might also be of interest to anyone who wants a review of basic course-setting principles. Topics to be discussed: the aims of good course planning, criteria for good legs and control placement, selection of the start and finish areas, developing complete and accurate control descriptions, guidelines for the beginning, intermediate and advanced courses, drawing board course design, field work, map preparation, course setter's notes, and hanging controls.

Approximately 50% of the session will be spent in reviewing the theoretical considerations of course design. The remainder of the session will be devoted to letting you design a few legs of beginning, intermediate, and advanced courses. We will then go over the course legs that you designed and critique them.

Upon completion of this workshop, you should be able to design and set the beginning courses at an orienteering event with the supervision of a more experienced course setter. If you have any questions, please contact Evan at evancusterhome.com or 925-254-5628.

Orienteer At Home Tournament

This year we are introducing the (hopefully!) annual Orienteer At Home tournament, beginning around 2:30. Come try out Dennis Wildfogel's orienteering computer game and test your skills against others for a nominal fee ($2). All proceeds go to BAOC.

The format: Practice for a few minutes on the Demo version, if you've never played the game before, then "run" your race on a new course with an expected winning time of around 10 min. We'll try to get several computers set up so people can play in parallel for some good head-to-head competition.

Directions

From Highway 101, exit at Oregon Expressway/Embarcadero Road and take Oregon Expressway west past El Camino (where the name changes to Page Mill Road) to Foothill Expressway/Junipero Serra Boulevard. Turn right on Junipero Serra and drive to Campus Drive East. Turn right and drive to Mayfield Avenue. Turn left and follow Mayfield around a 90 degree left turn to Lomita. Turn right and drive to Santa Teresa Street. Turn left on Santa Teresa and drive to Morris Way. Turn right on Morris and follow it as it turns left into Panama Street to Parking Structure 2. Park your car and follow the signs to the Mitchell Earth Sciences building. Registration will be in the vicinity of the Hartley conference room (look for signs), and the Start/Finish area will be on the patio outside adjacent to the SW corner of the main Quad.

From I-280, exit at Page Mill road and drive east to Junipero Serra. Turn left on Junipero Serra and drive to Campus Drive East. Turn right and drive to Mayfield Avenue. Turn left and follow Mayfield around a 90 degree left turn to Lomita. Turn right and drive to Santa Teresa Street. Turn left on Santa Teresa and drive to Morris Way. turn right on Morris and follow it as it turns left into Panama Street to Parking Structure 2. Park your car and follow the signs to the Mitchell Earth Sciences building. Registration will be in the vicinity of the Hartley conference room, and the Start/Finish area will be on the patio outside adjacent to the SW corner of the main quad.

We will try to have the key turns marked with orienteering signs.