Orienteering outing at Boyce Park

I just got back from a mountain bike excursion at Boyce Park.

The park is fantastic right now. It's been a dry spring, which is bad for kayaking and growing plants and the like, but actually makes mountain biking a lot more enjoyable (unless you're the type who enjoys getting muddy). So I encourage folks to get out to the park while the gettin' is good. See the updated information I've posted.

While rolling around, my brother and I bumped in to some folks from the Western PA Orienteering Club who were busy with some reconnaissance. It seems WPOC is going to be having an event the first weekend of June (That's June 2 - 3, 2007 for those of you reading through a time warp).

I've always been curious about getting involved with orienteering, as it seems like a lot of fun! But to make it more enticing, they claim there will be a mountain biking orienteering course that weekend, which is something I've never heard of before.

So I plan on attending. You should as well. Because I said so. It looks to be a good time.

While the directions provided by WPOC are good, the map on their site is lousy. For additional help, have a look at this map. The start location is at the extreme north-east of the park (top-right corner). Don't be fooled, you will be driving right past the main entrance to the park and making a wide loop around it to get to this entrance.