Crooked Compass Adventure Trek
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| Crooked Compass Adventure Trek : |
| Adventure Race : 8 Hour |
- Race Date: Saturday, April 2, 2016
- Start Time: 8:00am
- Entry Fee:$50 until March 19, $60 thereafter (no race day registration)
- Location:Weiser State Forest
- Address: 523 W Ellet Street
- City/State/Zip:Aristes, Pennsylvania 17920
- Country: USA
- Registration Website:
- Race Website http://rootstockracing.org/ind...
- Telephone: 2153175835
- Email: [email protected]
The Crooked Compass Adventure Trek is part-adventure racing, part-rogaining, and part-walk in the woods! Solos and teams of 2-4 will travel by foot, on-trail and off, using pre-plotted maps and compass as they locate as many checkpoints as possible within the time allotted. The course will be linear in format with certain mandatory points and a number of optional ones for stronger, faster, more experienced teams. In addition, there will be some embedded navigation challenges in the course including:
- A mini-rogaine or two (i.e. a small area of the course with a number of closely-packed controls, maps of which will be distributed on the course)
- A short, easy memory-O
- A navigation challenge relying on directions rather than a map
To complete the entire trek and find all the checkpoints, racers can expect to cover approximately 18-20 miles. There will be a fair bit of travel on trails, with most of the checkpoints hidden off of them. The more adventurous will have opportunities to travel off trail more if they choose.
- Team Size: 1-4 racers
- Divisions:
- All-Male
- All-Female
- Coed
- Solo
Course Information:
Maps will be pre-plotted and provided on water-resistant topographic maps. This year’s race takes place in historic coal country, so pace-counting/distance-estimating and compass use will be important since the unique terrain offers countless mounds, pits, and depressions from the coal miners. You don’t have to be an expert to have fun on this course, but some of the points might be more challenging if you don’t pay close attention to the maps! That said, it’s an amazing, beautiful landscape, reclaimed by nature after a long history of mining, and we hope you come out to explore it with us in April!
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