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| # Posted 2008-05-20 03:55:01 | |
| jtorranc: | Small enough to have escaped any consideration on my part, though I hope to have a look at Fort Washington Park across the river sometime soon. Are you thinking just summer series and other low key uses or full-blown QOC events? |
| # Posted 2008-05-21 04:55:42 | |
| TimGood: | When I have been walking with Bev on the road in the park, I have often thought the area would make a good sprint map. I have seen it pretty crowded though. |
| # Posted 2008-05-21 20:37:18 | |
| Nadim: | For the immediate future, the aim is to use Fort Hunt Park for a Summer Short Series sprint or short course. It can get pretty crowded some days though when I was there, I saw very few people. When growing up I used to see big office picnics often. Greg had actually talked with the park managers about using the park when he put the base map together. The park managers had concerns about us disrupting others but I think I think we'll get a chance for a QOC regular event.
I've been in Fort Washington Park too. It's much steeper making it difficult for orienteering. You can see the difference from the topo maps in the links. There is a trail that loops Fort Washington and there are some fields too. As I recall it's got a somewhat thick forest. Piscataway Park, further south of Fort Washington has some potential too though there is a lot of marsh to deal with. There's a big area of Piscataway further SW of the link that I've not explored. Even further south is Cedarville State Forest which will one day make a fine O-map. I never gotten around to checking out Children's Farm in Oxon Hill which is just above the Wilson Bridge but that seems like it could be fun. |
| # Posted 2008-05-23 03:36:51 | |
| peggyd: | I vote for Cedarville! It's pretty cool. In a southern Maryland kind of way.
Old timers in the club will tell you that there once was a b&w map of C'ville. I've never run on it (or even seen it, for that matter). Must be pretty old. |
| # Posted 2008-05-23 20:12:24 | |
| Nadim: | I didn't know that there was an O-map of Cedarville (see the map further down in the link). I've been there only 1 or 2 times. The area is about 2x1 miles, mostly wooded. It has relatively flatter than average terrain but still has a good mix of relief. I recall that the woods varied with green and light green along water ways and white on the flatter places--particularly in the north. There were many trails when I toured in 1999. Cyclists were already aware of and active in the area then. I think there were plans to change the trail routings so I imagine that there could be even more now. There was a nominal access fee for the park. |
| # Posted 2008-05-23 22:21:46 | |
| jtorranc: | I wonder if it was anything more than an improved (or not) USGS map, like the one Peter Gagarin has of a race he did once on Mason Neck. The current DNR map would probably be better, if so (not sure whether I bought a copy when I purchased my maps of Cunningham Falls, Rosaryville and Seneca Creek State Parks or not). Hopefully, when we get around to it, we'll find that the Charles County Lidar data is better than the PG county data. |
| # Posted 2008-05-24 00:46:36 | |
| peggyd: | Probably not any better than USGS, given the age. Not sure who would remember it (I think Hilary Cane told me about it) -- Don Davis, maybe.
I've done a bunch of trail runs there, including a memorable one where I got turned around & ended up way outside the park & had a loooong run back, at dusk, along a narrow road. Good times. |
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