Discussion: Maps and courses

All maps will be printed on high quality white non-glossy paper with high resolution and will be put into map bags.
Sprint all courses 5000:1, 2.5m contours
Long and middle M/F-20 and M/F-21+ classes 10000:1, all other classes 7500:1, 2.5m contours all.

Preliminary course stats:

Sprint
Course Distance Climb Controls
Blue 3.5km 10m
Red 3.0km 10m
Green 2.5km 10m
Brown 2.0km 10m
Brown Z 1.5km 10m
Orange 2.5km 10m
Yellow 2.0km 10m
White 1.5km 10m

Long
Course Distance Climb Controls
Blue 9.8km 300m 25
Red 8.1km 250m 19
Green 6.7km 200m 15
Brown 5.0km 150m 15
Brown Z 3.0km 70m 12
Orange 3.6km 50m 9
Yellow 2.6km 50m 9
White 2.3km 50m 11

Middle
Course Distance Climb Controls
Blue 3.5km 100m 16
Red 3.2km 90m 13
Green 2.8km 80m 13
Brown 2.2km 70m 12
Brown Z 1.7km 50m 12
Orange 3.0km 30m 10
Yellow 2.4km 30m 10
White 2.1km 30m 9

How readable is the sprint map at 1:5000? Are gaps and stairwells and all visible at a run for older people? If not, is 1:4000 for 50 and up a possibility?

Sergey, Long winning Blue time shell be ~90-100 min, course looks to be short, unless it is 10 min/km terrain.

10000:1 is going to be a huge map! Will we be navigating around a microprocessor die?

(Just getting in here before tRicky has a chance...)

It is tough terrain, indeed. It will test all your orienteering skills, as well as speed, strength, and endurance (for long). There is only one road and one trail on each map so any mistake will be costly :)

I am personally testing all courses to comply with the requirements. As these are preliminary stats they may be revised before map printing, of course.

5000:1 is adequate for BSU Campus. Sprint will be fun and furious :)

Sounds interesting; looking forward to it.

Why does a click on the event website take us to an event that took place in 2015 in Boise and Idaho City?

Try this one: http://www.pnwof.org/goldrush2017/

There Have Been 296 Earthquakes Near The Yellowstone Supervolcano Within The Last 7 Days

I hope it is nothing to be worried about

If there is, it probably doesn't matter much where you are.

So you may as well be enjoying the Idaho terrain.

I liked the days before the media felt the need to prefix everything with 'super' and I could look forward to retiring and spending my annuation in peace.

That's a super idea tricky.

Côte de Soleil could be the only habitable place then, as avg temp is expected to drop more than 20 degrees. If this physicist is right, 10% probability of occurrence in the next 100 years is in fact huge, this should be the headline news

If it is going to happen, what do you recommend we do about it, other than take advice from Jimmy Buffet?

JJ, I am not taking chances, will be moving in August to the Gulf Coast, which will be still comfortably warm after that expected temperatures drop.

Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
So let's sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again

If it is true, then this is THE BEST thread hijack ever!!