Race Details 2026

Race Details

Maps

Friday middle maps tentatively 1:7500, 5 meter contour. Friday map scale is still subject to change, please check back.

Saturday classic maps are 1:10,000 , 5 meter contours for all courses. Most courses are on letter size paper, blue course is on legal.

Sunday classic maps will be 1:10,000, 5 meter contours for red and blue courses. 1:7500 for white, yellow, orange, brown, green. ALL Sunday maps are on tabloid (11x17) paper.

Courses

All standard USA courses and classes will be offered.

Control Descriptions

Control descriptions are printed on your map. Loose description sheets may be picked up when you enter the call-up area, 2-3 minutes before your start. Descriptions for white and yellow courses are in English only. Descriptions for orange course and above are in IOF symbols only.

Control Markers

Control markers will be IOF standard orange and white flag. Control markers will have a blue stripe, either diagonal or vertical.

Start Procedures

Clear and check your SI card when you arrive in the start area.

You will be called up 3 or 4 minutes before your scheduled start.

2 minutes before your start, you will move forward and may pick up loose control descriptions. White and yellow may pick up their maps, mark name/number on the map, and preview the map.

1 minute before your start, you will move forward to the map line. You may mark your name / number on the back of the map. Do not look at your map (white/yellow may preview map). You may ask the starter to check that it is the correct course.

When the beeper sounds, you punch “start” and pick up your map.

There may (or may not) be a short streamered run to the start triangle shown on your map (to be determined). You must run to the triangle. There is a flag but no punch at this point. At this point you may begin navigating to your first control.

Drinking Water on Courses

There will be limited water stops on courses longer than 3 km. Water at controls will be shown with a cup symbol on your descriptions. If water is not at a control, it will be shown with a cup symbol on the map.

Time Limits

Time limit will be 2 hour for the Middle on Friday, 3 hours for the Classics on Saturday and Sunday.

Carry a Whistle! 3 blasts for serious emergency only, repeat as needed. Whistles are not to be used if you are simply lost unless you are over the course time limit.

Check for Ticks! Several varieties are common at both parks.

Course Length (km) and Climb (m) Table

Lengths are straight line, climb is along “optimal” route.

Course

Classes

Friday – Middle

Hueston Woods

Saturday – Classic

Mounds SRA

Sunday - Classic

Mounds SRA

Course Setter

Shin Shimizu

Dylan Poe

Mike Minium

1 White

F-10, F-12, F white, ISPF, ISPM, M-10, M-12, M white, Group white

2.0 km,

40 m

2.3 km,

50 m

1.7 km,

20 m

2 Yellow

F-14, F yellow, ISIF, ISIM, M-14, M yellow, Group yellow

2.3 km,

50 m

3.4 km,

80 m

3.0 km,

60 m

3 Orange A

F-16, F orange, ISJVF, M orange, Group orange

2.7 km,

125 m

4.1 km,

170 m

3.4 km,

90 m

4 Orange B

M-16, ICJVF, ICJVM, ISJVM

2.9 km,

145 m

4.4 km,

180 m

3.9 km

90 m

5 Brown A

F65+, F70+, F75+, F brown, M 75+, M brown, all 80+ classes

2.6 km,

90 m

3.3 km,

100 m

3.1 km,

80 m

6 Brown B

F-18, F55+, F60+, ISVF, M65+, M70+

2.9 km,

100 m

4.5 km,

200 m

3.7 km,

100 m

7 Green A

F35+, F40+, F45+, F50+, F green, M green

3.1 km,

135 m

4.7 km,

225 m

4.9 km,

180 m

8 Green B

M50+, M55+, M60+

3.4 km

155 m

5.4 km,

240 m

5.4 km,

190 m

9 Green C

F-20, ICVF, ISVM, M-18

3.8 km,

155 m

5.3 km,

230 m

5.8 km

220 m

10 Red

F-21+, ICVM, M-20, M35+, M40+, M45+, M red

4.2 km,

200 m

7.4 km,

300 m

7.4 km,

320 m

11 Blue

M-21+

4.8 km,

200 m

9.6 km,

320 m

9.7 km

380 m

Friday – Hueston Woods State Park, Ohio

Maps: Middle Distance. Hueston Woods was completely re-mapped by Vladimir Zherdev in 2020. There have been a few updates by Mike Minium and Shin Shimizu.

Parking is in the paved parking lot at Hueston Woods Lodge, 100 m to registration, 100-250 m to starts, 100-200 m to finish. Please leave the row closest to the building open for lodge guests.

Finish The finish will be close to registration.

Restrooms Modern restrooms are inside the lodge. Enter the lobby and turn to the right. Additional restrooms are located downstairs, go down the spiral staircase in the center of the lobby.

Walk to the start – There will be 2 start areas. White and Yellow will start just off the north edge of the parking lot. Orange and higher will have a 100-200 meter walk through moderately sloping terrain to the northeast of the lodge parking lot.

Clothing Return Warm-up clothing may be left at the call-up areas, and will be returned to the finish area.

Course notes and special symbols

North lines on Hueston Woods are 250 meters apart. (not the newer standard of 300).

All courses will pass through an area that is heavily used by disc golfers. Golf tees are shown as a very small rectangular paved area, and targets as a black circle. Please be alert for flying discs and show courteous respect to golfers.

All courses will use or cross popular hiking trails. Please be courteous to other trail users.

Most courses (orange and above) will use or cross horse trails. If horses are encountered, please move off the trail (preferably on the low side, if the trail is on a slope), slow to a walking speed, and talk in conversational tones to the horses and riders.

There are NO rootstocks shown on the Hueston Woods map (even gigantic ones).

Boulders in this part of the country can be very small, and boulders well under one meter tall are mapped. There are very few boulders, and in general, if it looks too large for you to pick up, it is probably on the map. Only one mapped boulder is significantly over a meter tall.

Black X can be junk, a bench, a park sign, or an electrical utility box. Black O is used almost exclusively for disc golf targets.

The major power line is mapped as rough open with areas of dark green (impenetrable) and double vertical green lines for very thick undergrowth. This is mostly very nasty thorny vegetation. Look ahead for gaps with no green lines or only single green undergrowth lines. These gaps will give you a much gentler crossing of the power lines.

Please be exceptionally careful with road crossings. White course will cross a service road which should not have traffic, and may briefly go along side of the lodge or cabin road. Please be alert for traffic.

Our maps have a special symbol for “very ruined fence”. It has shorter dashes and longer gaps than the regular “ruined fence” symbol. This indicates an old wire fence that is so deteriorated that there are places you can cross without seeing it at all, while in other places you might trip over an ankle high to knee high strand of rusty wire. Ruined and very ruined fences may have occasional pieces of pink or orange flagging tape where course setters or vetters tripped over them.

From Shin Shimizu, Course Setter:

please check back for course setter’s notes.

There are many controls.. Please make sure to check the control number every time when you get to the control.

Saturday and Sunday

Mounds State Recreation Area, Indiana

General Notes for both days –

Mounds was mapped in 1995 by George Kuntsevitch, for the 1996 US Championships. Kuntsevitch used less green than Zherdev, so in general vegetation may seem a little thicker than mapped. Additionally, invasive amur honeysuckle has continued to spread, especially on south and west facing slopes. Mike Minium and Dylan Poe have done significant vegetation updating, but vegetation is usually generalized for an area. For example a large area of “slow run” light green will likely have small patches that seem thicker and perhaps some that seem lighter.

There are NO rootstocks shown on the Mounds map (even gigantic ones).

There are a few prominent single trees mapped with a green circle. In the forest, these are generally ones with a trunk diameter significantly greater than most surrounding trees.

Black X is usually junk, sometimes just an old wire coil. Not all junk is mapped.

The terrain is mostly typical Midwest ridge and reentrant, on the east side of a large man-made lake, with mostly deciduous forest. There are many small erosion gullies, and remains of a few old wire fences from the land being farmed, prior to the creation of the lake and park nearly 60 years ago. A few upland fields are still leased for farming, but these are ok to cross, and may have corn or soybean stubble from last year’s crop. Over the last couple decades, some of these fields have been abandoned, and ones that have vertical green lines indicating undergrowth may be rather thorny.

There is very little surface rock. Almost all mapped boulders are smaller than 1 meter. On your description sheet, boulders with a height of less than 0.5 meter are modified with the “low” symbol.

There are a few dense areas of multiflora rose and briars, and many widespread patches of thorny vegetation – full leg cover is recommended.

Our maps (both days) have a special symbol for “very ruined fence”. It has shorter dashes and longer gaps than the regular “ruined fence” symbol. This indicates an old wire fence that is so deteriorated that there are places you can cross without seeing it at all, while in other places you might trip over an ankle high to knee high strand of rusty wire. Ruined and very ruined fences may have occasional pieces of pink or orange flagging tape where course setters or vetters tripped over them.

The Mounds map (especially the Sunday section) often has a narrow strip of rough open land along the lakeshore. Depending on lake level, this may or may not actually exist. In any case, it is probably not a fast route choice due to mud and flotsam, and probably not an attractive choice for any course. Over recent weeks, the lake completely filled up from the low winter pool level, then has varied from completely covering this strip, to being a couple meters lower.

Saturday Classic –

Maps: Classic Distance

Event Check-in Check in (and recreational registration) will be outdoors near parking and finish.

Finish The finish will be close to parking and registration.

Parking Park in spaces in the “old” campground.

Walk to the Start There will be a flat walk of 100-500 meters depending where you are parked.

Restrooms One of the campground restroom buildings will be open. It may or may not be the one closest to start and finish.

Clothing Return Warm-up clothing may be left at the call-up areas, and should be picked up at the same place; they will not be moved to the nearby finish.

Course notes and special symbols

North lines on the Mounds map are 500 meters apart, not the new 300 meter standard.

The new blue asterisk symbol is used for wells and prominent sewage covers.

There are a couple hunter’s stands (black T) on the map. Stands were supposed to be removed at the end of deer season, so there is a chance that these could disappear but as of a month and a half after deer season, these were still there.

Sunday Classic –

Maps: Classic Distance

Event Check-in Check in (and recreational registration) will be near the campground store.

Finish The finish will be close to parking and registration.

Parking At the beach parking lot

Walk to the Start Start will be a 300 meter steep uphill walk through fairly dense woods (meaning that it may not be possible to easily run past slower walkers).

Restrooms Vault toilets will be open at a small parking area a couple hundred meters south of the beach. We also plan to add a couple portables near parking/finish. The beach shower house will not be open.

Clothing Return Warm-up clothing will be returned from a clothing drop where the walk to the start leaves the parking lot

Course notes and special symbols

North lines are 500 meters apart.

The new blue asterisk symbol is used for wells and prominent sewage covers.

White Course – After maps were printed, a prominent single tree used as a control was cut down. There is a stump and it is obviously recently cut down.

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