This course is a little different in that you have to not only navigate to the right spot but you also have to identify the correct answer to the clue. Not all are very straightforward so pay close attention!
Keep track of your answers on a sheet of paper and submit your time and answer to contourline@stlouisorienteering.org and we will “grade” and post them.
Thanks for running the course. I left it open for a couple of more weeks at the request of some members. Results were tricky. It was harder to get you to think and see what I was thinking and seeing than I thought it would be. I went ahead and did a point for finding it and venturing a guess and then a second point for getting it correct. Congrats to Team Freiper for taking home the victory.
Hope you all enjoyed it. See you at a meet soon.
Because the club has turned this into a permanent course I have removed the answers from this post. You can find the map and clue sheet on our permanent course page here. If you have completed this course, you are also now a part of the record of results on our new permanent courses page found here.                           Â
The first records of this course date to 1976 from the Orienteering Resource Agency with additional field work and drafting completed in 1985. The original course control markers were iron stakes with 3D triangular iron tops. Over the years the stakes fell into disrepair. Beginning in 2022, with the permission of the Park, the St. Louis Orienteering Club (SLOC) restored the original course by replacing the iron stakes with brown carsonite markers. Along the way, another set of white carsonite stakes were found, and with no known map of that course, these additional seven controls were added to the permanent course represented on this map, totaling 27 total controls.
If you would like to post your time, please send an email to contourline@stlouisorienteering.org and we will post it. Please send us a link to a GPS track, with your time, the date, distance, and the name(s) of those who completed it. You are welcome to run this as many times as you would like.
You can purchase the map and clue information for this course on our maps page here.
Greensfelder Permanent Course 27 Controls
Name(s)
Time
Nathan Graves 2-9-25, 4.96mi
1:14:57
Zdennek Palachek 2-1-25, 4.77mi
1:17:23
Tommy, Jen, Sierra Doias 1-1-26, 6.24mi
2:13:43
Note – official time is the total time elapsed while on the course including any stoppages, not moving time as recorded on some devices.
There are permanent courses in St. Louis allowing you to go out and practice with real controls in the woods. The Rockwoods Range course map can be purchased through this webiste here.
FULL PERMANENT COURSE
For those up to the challenge, there are a total of 34 controls located on the Rockwoods Range map. To have a little fun with this, SLOC is maintaining a database for those who have completed the full course.
If you would like to post your time, please send an email to contourline@stlouisorienteering.org and we will post it. Please send us a link to a GPS track, with your time, the date, distance, and the name(s) of those who completed it. You are welcome to run this as many times as you would like.
Rockwoods Range Permanent Course Full Course 34 Controls
Name(s)
Date
Time
Controls
Distance (miles)
Nathan Graves
1/10/21
3:00:44
34
11.74
Nathan Graves
10/18/20
3:24:25
34
12.39
Nathan Graves and Brian Rodenbeck
2/21/15
3:46:39
34
12.18
Zdenek Palachek and Todd Dohogne
1/17/21
3:50:27
34
11.97
Note – official time is the total time elapsed while on the course including any stoppages, not moving time as recorded on some devices.
OTHER VARIATONS
Not everyone wants to bite off the whole thing. That is OK too, we have designed a couple of shorter courses for those who want to try their hand at a shorter version. Send your final time to cavemelon@hotmail.com and feel free to run it as many times as you like. The Rockwoods Range course map can be purchased through this webiste here.
Rockwoods Range Challenge Course #1: Start at the gate at the AP Greensfelder Monument/Dogwood trailhead off of Allenton just south of Hencken Rd, proceed to numbers: 6, 27, 31, 9, 28, 13, 29, 16, 15, then back to the gate for the finish.
Rockwoods Range Permanent Course Challenge Course #1
Name(s)
Time
Josh Borgmeyer
56:13
Eric Buckley
57:00
Nathan Graves
1:00:59
Greg Schott
1:07:13
Jeff Ryan
1:07:43
Nathan Graves
1:15:02
Bryan Niehaus
1:20:00
Mark Geldmeier
1:34:04
Gary Thompson
1:43:24
Tim Gutersloh
1:48:11
Jeff and Carrie Sona
2:02:00
Geisen Family
2:22:01
Emily and Erl
2:30:00
Rockwoods Range Challenge Course #2: Designed by Dave Frei. Start at 11, then go 10, 8, 26, 25, 24, 4, 5, 7, 34, 33, 32, and end at 13.
We recommend parking at the south Greenrock TH gravel parking lot and walk to the start at checkpoint 11. Then once you’ve completed the course at 13 enjoy your cool down hike back to your vehicle. The Rockwoods Range course map can be purchased through this webiste here.
Rockwoods Range Permanent Course Challenge Course #2
Name(s)
Time
Nathan Graves
1:17:00
Josh Borgmeyer
1:24:00
Mark Geldmeier
2:11:00
ARE YOU A COURSE DESIGNER?
Do you have an idea for a set of controls from the Permanent Course that would make a great segment course for others to run? Great! We welcome that. Send us your course, any instructions, and your completed time and we will add yours to another chart just like the ones on this page. We love to have new ideas and challenges.
The In Person registration has closed but you can still register for the virtual event and it will be open until April 3rd. If you are a member, you will need your member coupon code that should have been sent to you via email to get your free registrations by inputting the code when you checkout of the shopping cart on the web page.
In Person Event: This will occur on March 27th. Registration starts at 9:00 with start times running until 11 AM. Course closes at Noon. Registration will be online only, and will close on March 24th. There will be 2 course – a beginner course and advanced course.
Virtual Event: This will occur anytime (on your own) between March 25th and April 3rd. It will be the same courses offer in the In Person event (beginner and advanced) and the controls/flags will be out the entire time. The virtual event registration will also be online only, and at registration completion, you will be send a downloadable pdf of the course to print at home.
Course Format for Virtual and In-Person: David Fisher has designed a beginner’s 2.7 KM course and an advanced 5 KM course to take you through the lesser known areas of this awesome park. The course format is point-to-point which means that you must get each point in order. If you can’t find a point, then you can move on to the next one. Bring a stopwatch and keep your own time. There is no time limit. Please share your times as desired to Josh Borgmeyer at jb.balancedbody@gmail.com and all results will be posted to the website following the event. Have fun!
Please wear a mask for the in-person event which can then be removed once you start the course. Thank you.
