[roc-info] Orienteering meet at Lincoln Park, Sunday, June 5

[Richard Detwiler]

IMPORTANT: Please note that the time of the meet has changed, due to an 
event that the Bayview YMCA is holding which will make parking very 
tight until mid afternoon.

The new times of the event are as follows:

3:00-4:30 p.m.: Sprint and White course start

4:00 p.m.: Score-O (mass start) (one hour time limit)

5:15 p.m.: All courses close, control pickup begins.

This meet will utilize Lincoln Park (formerly Irondequoit Bay Park 
East), as well as the YMCA grounds which adjoin Lincoln Park. We will be 
starting at the Bayview YMCA in Webster, in a building in the field west 
of the YMCA building. The Bayview YMCA is located off of Bay Road, a few 
tenths of a mile north of the intersection of Bay Road and Empire Blvd. 
The entrance is at a traffic light near Flaherty's Three Flags Inn and 
Wegman's.

The YMCA tells us that parking will be tight up to at least 2:45 p.m., 
so it is suggested that people avoid coming any earlier than necessary. 
Also, they request that orienteers park in the lot EAST of the YMCA 
building (note that this is not the lot closest to the actual starting 
location; it is about a 300 meter walk).

Three courses will be offered:

    *

      Sprint: 1.6 km, 90 meters of climb

    *

      White: 1.8 km, 60 meters of climb

    *

      Score-O: One hour time limit to visit as many controls as
      possible. There are 24 possible controls, some White difficulty,
      some Yellow difficulty, and some Orange difficulty. Controls have
      point values ranging from 10 to 40. One route (one of many
      possible routes) to hit all of the controls is about 7 km
      straight-line distance (exception to straight line distance is
      that any private land is avoided) with about 340 meters of climb.

The terrain:

This park is small (a little less than 1 square km in area), but it is 
not easy, either navigationally or physically. It is extremely hilly, 
with a lot of trails but few that go straight for very long, so the park 
feels much bigger than it actually is. Also, it is almost completely 
undeveloped (exceptions being the YMCA grounds; a boathouse and dock 
with a dirt road leading to them; and a new playground area on Empire 
Blvd). This tends to make the navigation more challenging, without 
things like roads, buildings, athletic fields, etc. to navigate (and 
re-locate) with.

There are a number of streams in the park, often with fairly steep 
banks. Where trails cross them, there is no problem getting across, but 
in many areas away from trails, it can be very difficult to cross them, 
not because of too much water in the streams, but because of the steep 
banks, the steepness of which is not always obvious from the contours. 
In the next major revision of the map, we'll attempt to do a much better 
job of using the "earth bank" symbol to indicate the (very many) areas 
where crossing is difficult or impossible.

The new playground on Empire Blvd has not been mapped accurately. There 
is an extensive set of trails in the playground area, and these have 
been mapped more or less accurately, but the whole area right now is 
just mapped as "open land with scattered trees" (a major 
oversimplification of what is there), and no playground equipment is 
show on the map. This should not create any problems; no controls are in 
the playground area. The most important thing to know is that it is 
possible to get out to Empire Blvd if anyone chooses to use that as a 
route choice during the Score-O (it wouldn't come into play for the 
White or the Sprint, unless someone is WAY off course!), and the map 
does an adequate job of showing how to navigate to Empire Blvs.

For the most part, the trails and woods are amazingly dry, considering 
what a wet spring we've had. There is a section of a flat, grassy trail 
near the YMCA grounds which has, as of Wednesday of this week, some 
standing water and mud, and this trail will be used by the White course, 
and possibly (depending on route choices) on the Sprint and Score-O 
courses. So don't expect shoes to stay totally dry and mud-free, but I 
would say 99% of the terrain is dry.

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