[roc-info] Next ROC orienteering meet

[Richard Detwiler]

The next ROC meet will be this coming Saturday, Oct. 18, at Dryer Road 
Park in Victor. You can start any time between noon and 2 pm.

While the meet starts at Dryer Road Park, some courses will also utilize 
adjoining Fort Hill and Ganondagon.

Directions from Rochester:

- Take I-490 east to the Victor exit (last exit before the Thruway).
- Take Rt. 96 into Victor.
- When coming into the village of Victor, turn right onto School Street 
(which seems to eventually change its name to School Road). This will be 
the second stop light as you come into the village, and the one just 
before the main intersection in town.
- Take School Street about 1 mile to Dryer Road.
- Turn right on Dryer Road for about 0.8 miles. The park entrance is on 
the left side of the road.

There will be five courses offered:

- White 1.7 km (all within Dryer Road Park)
- Short Yellow 2.7 km (includes Dryer Road Park and Fort Hill)
- Yellow 3.3 km (includes Dryer Road Park and Fort Hill)
- Orange 4.0 km (includes Dryer Road Park and Fort Hill)
- Green 6.8 km (includes Dryer Road Park, Fort Hill, and Ganondagon; 
involves two crossings of a busy road)

The “Green” course is really more like a long Orange course – it was 
difficult to find control placements that were truly at the Green level 
of difficulty.

The Orange is the same as the Green but with all of the controls in 
Ganondagon eliminated, for those who want to explore Dryer Road Park and 
Fort Hill but may not have the time or energy for a 6.8 km course.

Also, the Short Yellow is the same as the Yellow but with the two most 
distant controls in Fort Hill eliminated.

Dryer Road Park has an incredibly complex (and potentially confusing) 
network of trails, mainly established for mountain biking. Although 
Dryer Road Park is only approximately 0.5 km2 in area, there are 18 km 
of mapped trails in the park. It appears that there are some trails that 
were not there a year ago, when the map was made, so there is actually 
more trail distance than 18 km. Fort Hill and Ganondagon have a more 
“normal” network of trails.

There are areas of thick vegetation in all three areas, but control 
locations have been chosen to avoid any particularly nasty areas. All 
controls are either on trails or in areas of good visibility (either 
open woods, or open or rough open fields). The Orange and Green courses 
both will involve visiting some control locations in rough open fields, 
which typically have vegetation that is knee high or a bit higher, so 
leg covering is highly recommended for these courses, and is a good idea 
(but not as essential) for the Yellow courses.

Note that the Green course crosses School Road twice. This is a busy 
road with fairly fast car speeds, and people in cars are not used to 
seeing people on foot in this area. Runners must take responsibility for 
getting themselves safely across this road.

If you have any questions about the courses or the park, please contact 
me at RLShadow at aol.com.