Sunday September 4, 2022
Sutton area (100 km east of Montreal), Quebec.
(For both Middle and Long terrains)
Parking
Parking is at the closed golf course on route 139. This is not the original location. It is in the same embargo area. Details will be in the second bulletin which will be released soon. The long arena and courses have not been affected.
Washrooms
Portable toilets will be situated near the arena.
Maps & Terrain
The Middle and Long events will use a new map of the terrain near Sutton. The terrain was used for the
Canadian Championships in 1997, organized by John Charlow, the long-time former president of Ramblers OC.
All the forest is private property, whose landowners graciously allowed us to hold an event there. The few
who rejected our request are shown as “out of access” areas on the map.
The forest is mixed, with some areas that look like a park to some that are very dense. There is significant
number of swamps.
There are areas with a lot of dead falls and uncleaned after the logging activities of the past. These are shown with green stripes.
A fixture of many Quebec forests is rootstocks. They are shown as green crosses. There are few hundreds of them on each map.
Some slopes are quite steep, pay attention. After a rain, they can be very slippery. Cliffs mapped as passable are 1 – 2 m high, with various degrees of slope and shape. Impassable cliffs (mapped
with a thicker black line) are 2 – 10m high. As some are high and potentially dangerous, please stay away from the edges. Good route choices should not go via dangerous cliffs.
Water features (marshes, streams) may look a little different than mapped, depending on the amount of the rainfall leading up to the event.
Most trails on the terrain are made by tractors and SUVs, and are wide. The symbols used to show them
depend on how they look. Some barely visible old logging tracks are shown with indistinct trail or narrow ride symbols. There are only few trails that are made by walking and therefore are narrow.
Emergency bearing is east (both for Middle and Long races, TBC).
Old Maps of Sutton
Course setter Notes
The course setter notes are now available!
Middle Courses
Map scale 1:7500 to 1:10,000, see the table below. Contour interval: 5 m; map size: 8.5 x 11 inches.
Distance from Arena to Start: approximately 100 m. There will be limited water provided on the course.
Course Time Limit: 90 minutes.
|
Function |
Person in Charge |
|
Course Setter |
Anna Fichman |
|
Event director |
Dmitri Golovanov |
|
Controller |
Richard Guttormson |
|
Map |
Dmitri Golovanov |
Classes & Recommended Winning Times (RWT)
|
Course |
TD |
Classes |
Scale |
Length km |
Controls |
Climb, m |
RWT Middle |
|
1 |
1 |
M10 F10 Open1 |
1:7500 |
25 |
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|
2 |
2 |
M12 F12 Open 2 |
1:7500 |
25 |
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|
3 |
3 |
M14 F14 Open 3 |
1:10000 |
25 |
|||
|
4 |
4 |
M16 F16 Open 4 |
1:10000 |
30 |
|||
|
5 |
5 |
M75 M80 M85 M90 F75 F80 F85 F90 Open 5 |
1:7500 |
35 |
|||
|
6 |
5 |
M65 F18 F45 F55 F65 Open 6 |
1:10000 |
35 |
|||
|
7 |
5 |
M18 M45 M55 F20 F21 F35 Open 7 |
1:10000 |
35 |
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|
8 |
5 |
M20 M21 M35 |
1:10000 |
35 |