By Dwight Freund

Welcome, Orienteers, to the low foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Friday's course is a typical urban Sprint course, to be held at the main campus of Sierra College, just off I-80 on the northeast outskirts of the Sacramento metropolitan area.

This is a relatively flat and compact map, and courses will frequently cross each other and themselves. There will be no water on these short courses, but please feel free to carry your own. Light refreshments will be provided to finishers. Restrooms are in the Theatre building next to the assembly area—please use only the south entrance to the building.

Map Notes ↑

The map will be printed at a scale of 1:4000 with 2.5 m contours. The typically urban vegetation is generally runnable, with only one small patch being out-of-bounds (olive color on the map). The swimming pool and corporation areas are likewise marked as out-of-bounds (again, olive color on the map).

The campus is littered ... erm, decorated ... with student artwork and statues. The larger of these are indicated on the map with the black O (man-made object) symbol, while the black × is used for the usual sorts of man-made objects.

The map uses the International Specification for Sprint Orienteering Maps (ISSOM). There are significant differences in the symbols used, and in their meaning, from a "regular" orienteering map. Lack of familiarity with these differences can lead to confusion or disqualification. You can find the Specification on the Internet here (290KB PDF). Please be sure to familiarize yourself with it.