Advance online registration is required for this event.
Register before Wed Mar 25, end of day (11:59pm)
Quick info
Courses: Classic point to point orienteering format. Five different courses for all skill levels.
Times: Check-in opens at 10:30. Start your course between 11:00am and 1:00 pm. All courses close at 3 pm.
Intermediate Member Training: Offered before the meet on the topic of Five Techniques for Intermediate and Advanced Orienteers.
NEW: CROCodiles Hangouts at 1pm for all the kids!
NEW: Maps for Orange, Brown and Green courses will be handed out at the start instead of at check-in. Making route decisions on the fly is a challenging and fun element of orienteering that we want to be part of our events.
This is the first of our 2026 Classic Series competition! Take the best 5 of 7 races throughout the season and see how you compare to others in your category!
Event director: Sarah Vitak
Event Overview
Stub Stewart State Park is hilly, very forested and rugged terrain. The physical challenge for this event is higher than our typical local CROC meets. All courses, including White and Yellow are shorter in length but include more climb and steepness than usual. All courses include climbing over or around fallen logs. It’s a great adventure! So, choose your course with this in mind.
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.
CROC thanks our land management partner Oregon State Parks and Aaron Raines, our incredibly supportive Stub Stewart Park Manager.
Courses
White: Beginner 1.8 km, 10 controls, 40m climb
Yellow: Beginner / Intermediate 2.6 km, 11 controls, 85m climb
Orange: Intermediate 3.8 km, 16 controls, 130m climb
Brown: Advanced Short 3.0 km, 14 controls, 100m climb
Green: Advanced Medium 4.2 km, 18 controls, 160m climb
Courses set by: Anndy Wiselogle, Marsha Holliday and Mike Holliday
COURSE NOTES
Advanced Brown & Green
Welcome to another spring orienteering event at Stub Stewart! Be prepared for wet and muddy conditions, deadfall and vegetation crossings and plenty of stumps. The amount of blackberries and prickly vegetation is minimal but leggings or gaiters are recommended. Many of the mapped seasonal water channels do not have running water. In working on the courses, the wildlife encounters have been fun. Plenty of deer, a few native ground frogs and I was in the middle of a barred owl conversation one day.
Logging operations in the park continue and so there are restrictions on areas and routes that we could use for courses. In addition, the Park has opened the second campground earlier than usual, so it is important to understand and respect the out of bounds markings on the maps.
Overall, the navigational challenge is on the lower side of the scale, but the advanced courses all finish with an uphill tilt, so make sure to save some energy for a strong finish!
Intermediate Orange
Conditions and out of bounds have the same considerations as the advanced courses. You will want to pay attention to contours, features and vegetation changes to determine your attack points from the trail to controls. Make sure you know your pace count, it can be helpful. And the Orange course also finishes with an uphill tilt, so save some energy!
Member Training - Five Techniques for Intermediate and Advanced Orienteers
March 28, 2026, 10:00-11:00 a.m; Before the courses start
Learn essential techniques beyond map and compass reading for intermediate and advanced courses. We’ll be sitting at a table looking at maps and discussing best approaches for a variety of legs.
This training is for CROC members only; there is no cost. Register here by March 25 and we’ll send you the exact starting point. For questions and suggestions contact trainer Anndy.
CROCodiles Hangouts for youth, 1pm!
Youths gather at 1 pm! Kids can share with each other how their courses went, throw a disc back and forth, and just hang out. There may be snacks. CROCodiles coaches will be on hand to get things going. We may also bring in one of the activities from the CROCodiles Field Days to have another fun thing for kids to do.
Families and kids, if you’re going on your course as group, or you are running on the White or Yellow course on your own, plan your start time so that the young people are back in time for the CROCodiles hangout.
New to Orientering? Welcome!
Our events are open to both members and non-members. Beginners, families and dogs are welcome.
Have a look at our “New to O?” webpage, which covers just about every question you may have.
At most events, we offer free beginner clinics (they take about 10 minutes) to teach you everything you need to know. These are typically at half-hour intervals; choose your time slot on the registration page.
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 and map pick-up: 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Intermediate Workshop for CROC Members: 10:00am - 11:00am
Beginner clinics: Usually 11:00 am and 11:30 am
Course starts: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
All courses close: 3:00 pm (controls will be picked up)
All participants must punch in at the finish and download their times even if they do not finish their course, or if they return after the course closes. This is how we make sure that everyone returns safely.
Venue Notes
Park ONLY in designated areas. Do not park along the side of the road, you probably will get a ticket, no fun. If the main day use parking area is full, continue about half a mile farther to the overflow Clayhill Horse Staging parking area. Park along the side of that area and leave the center area open for horse trailers.
Registration and other costs
Park Fee: Oregon State Parks charges $10 for day use, and $60 for a 12 month pass. The day use fee may be paid at either the welcome center (one mile after entering the park) or at the "iron ranger" fee box in each parking lot (exact change required.)
Event Cost
$17 base price - individuals
$22 base price - groups 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 your own epunch)
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.
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!
Results
Results are posted to the Events & Results web page after the event.
Driving directions and location
Latitude longitude coordinates of the event: 45.7414, -123.1864
Copy/paste these coordinates into Google or your smartphone mapping app to get a map and driving directions to the event.
Map example
Here's an example of a map from this venue. (See all maps from previous events here.)
