Online registration link coming here soon
Quick Info
Online pre-registration required, no event-day registration
Registration deadline: Thursday, June 19, 11:00 pm
Location: Reed College, SE Portland Map
Courses: One course for all skill levels. One-person relay with multiple maps.
Check-in: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Start: Mass start at 11:30 am
Event Director: Virginia Church
Event overview
The Reed College campus features a complex mixture of buildings, passageways, paths, and diverse urban features: the perfect setup for sprint orienteering. In this style of orienteering, participants are faced with many route choices and are called on to make quick navigation decisions.
The course, designed by Ali Crocker, is the same for all entrants: a series of short loops with controls in a different order for different runners and teams. Focusing on your own maps will be the challenge.
For competitors who have an SI-AIR+ e-punch, the controls will have that capability. See explanation below.
CROC thanks Reed College for permission to use the campus for this event.
E-Punch
We use an electronic scoring and timing system known as “e-punch”. Each entry or team needs to have an e-punch stick. If you don't have your own e-punch stick, the rental cost is included in your registration fee. Using e-punch is easy. You can learn how at the event, or read about e-punch here.
SI-AIR+ We've enabled the air punch capability on our controls. This will only change things for folks with an SI-AIR+ e-punch (none of our rental e-sticks have this capability). If you have your own e-punch and aren't sure if it is air+ compatible, check if your e-stick number is between 8,000,001 and 8,999,999.
So what does this change? E-punches that are compatible should register arriving at a control about 1ft away from it. Once it registers, the e-punch, rather than the control, will beep and flash to let you know you have punched the control. The recommended technique is to place your hand with the e-Punch on the control, then bring it up to your ear to listen for the confirmation beep. Our hope is that this will enable our competitively inclined participants to practice running through controls, particularly the finish.
New to Orientering? Welcome!
Our events are open to both members and non-members, and beginners are welcome.
Have a look at our “New to O?” webpage, which covers just about every question you may have.
A free beginner clinic will be offered at this event.
If you'd like to get reminders about upcoming events, sign up at our newsletter page. (No more than a couple of emails per month, we promise!)
Thanks for coming out and trying something new, we think you'll like it!
Times
Check-in opens at 10:30 am
Beginner clinic time TBA
Mass start at 11:30
Course closes 2:00 pm
(Please check out through the course finish area before leaving, even if you do not finish the course or return after the course closes.)
Volunteers
All CROC events are put on by volunteers, and the meet director can almost always use some extra hands. Please keep in mind:
No prior experience is needed for many of the tasks
You can help out AND still run your course of choice
Typical ways to assist are: helping with starts and finishes, handing out maps, and picking up control flags after the course closes. Typical shifts are one hour.
If you'd like to help, you can choose a task and time shift when you register online. Thanks!
Registration
Advance online registration is required. There is no event day registration.
Registration deadline: June 19, 11:00pm
Refund policy: full refund if requested more than 48 hours before the start time of the event. Email CROC Registrar to request a refund and we’ll work it out.
Event Cost
$17 base price - individuals
$22 base price, teams of 2 or more
- Subtract $5 if you’re a member or CROC or other O-club (Join CROC)
- Subtract $5 if you have your own e-punch (Buy own epunch)
Online registration link coming here soon
Livelox: GPS tracking and route reviewing tool
CROC uses Livelox, which is an interactive web based tool that enables you to see your exact route/track on the orienteering map, and compare them with other competitors.
Results
Results are posted to the Events & Results web page a few days after the event.
Driving directions and map to event
Latitude longitude coordinates of event: 45.4835, -122.6310
Copy/paste these latitude longitude coordinates into Google maps or your smartphone mapping app to get a map and driving directions to the event.
Park in the North parking lots accessed at SE 33rd Ave and SE Steele Street and follow directions to the event center. If the lots are full, you can park on the sides of SE Steele St.
The running track south of Steele St. provides a good place to warm up.