2018 The Teanaway Navigation Race

06/02/2018

2, 4, & 8-hour Nav Race

Saturday, June 2nd, 2018

MerGeo Nav Races is hosting a navigation race in the open pine forests of the Teanaway Valley, near Cle Elum, WA! Beautiful terrain, an accurate orienteering map, free idyllic riverside camping minutes away, wildflowers, and typically beautiful weather will make this a weekend to remember. Thanks to Cascade Orienteering Club for use of its Teanaway maps.

Are you new to nav racing? That’s okay! Check out the “First Time?” section to learn how it works. Also, Cascade Orienteering Club is hosting navigation events in the same area on May 14th & 15th! Cascade offers Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced-level courses, plus free beginner instruction before you begin. Attending either of Cascade’s events are a great way to get acquainted with an orienteering-style map, which uses special colors and symbols to provide more detailed information than the typical USGS map. You can also review this orienteering map legend. And finally, be sure to show up to the free Introduction to Navigation session at 8:00am on event morning! We’ll provide an introduction to the map, reading contours, basic navigation, and how to use the compass to orient the map.

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Results
Registration
Schedule
The Teanaway Trail Run
Map & Terrain
Driving Directions & Parking
Lodging & Free Camping
Safety & Etiquette

Results

2018 Results & Photos

2017 Results & Photos

2016 Results

2015 Results

Registration

	Open (through 4/26)	Early (through 5/10)	Regular (through 5/31)	Day-of-Event
2-Hour Adult (22+)	21.00	27.00	30.00	35.00
2-Hour Adult w/ Child (12/under)	16.00	22.00	25.00	30.00
2-Hour Youth (13-21)	13.00	16.00	19.00	25.00
2-Hour Child (12/under)	10.00	14.00	16.00	20.00
4-Hour Adult (22+)	32.00	39.00	45.00	50.00
4-Hour Adult w/ Child (12/under)	27.00	34.00	40.00	45.00
4-Hour Youth (13-21)	22.00	28.00	34.00	40.00
4-Hour Child (12/under)	14.00	19.00	24.00	30.00
8-Hour Adult (22+)	49.00	56.00	63.00	70.00
8-Hour Adult w/ Child (12/under)	44.00	51.00	58.00	65.00
8-Hour Youth (13-21)	39.00	44.00	52.00	60.00
8-Hour Child (12/under)	25.00	29.00	31.00	35.00

Cascade Orienteering Club Discount
*Members of Cascade Orienteering Club may take off $5 by using code COC#member

Washington Trails Association Discount
*Members of Washington Trails Association may take off $5 by using code WTA#member

Search and Rescue Discount
*Search and Rescue volunteers may take off $10 by using code SAR#thanks

*Discount codes may not be combined.

Online pre-registration closes Thursday, May 31 at 11:59pm.

Day-of-event registration is available by cash, card, or check made payable to MerGeo Nav Races.

Schedule

SATURDAY, JUNE 2nd

7:45am – Registration opens
8:00am – Introduction to Navigation (free!)
9:00am – Map handout
10:00am – Start!
12:00pm – 2-hour Finish
2:00pm – 4-hour Finish
6:00pm – 8-hour Finish

The Teanaway Trail Run

SUNDAY, JUNE 3

Stay another night and join us the next day for The Teanaway Trail Run! Featuring a 5k, 10k, half marathon, and marathon, you can enjoy more time in this beautiful pine-filled valley!

Map & Terrain

Map scale will be 1:15000

The Teanaway Navigation Race is a unique nav race, because instead of being held on a USGS map with moderate detail, the event will be held on several of Cascade Orienteering Club’s highly detailed orienteering maps of the Teanaway area.

In addition to more accurate contour lines, orienteering maps also provide color-coded vegetation mapping to let the orienteer know how passable an area might be. Open grassland (yellow) for instance, is far more passable than dark green (thick forest). Orienteering maps are also field-checked by the map maker, providing an additional level of human interpretation and insight that USGS maps cannot provide. However, the map is approaching 20 years old, and even though it has had periodic updates, vegetation and trails may appear different than mapped in some places.

If you are not familiar with orienteering maps, this legend will be helpful in learning what all the colors and symbols mean.

TERRAIN
The terrain is predominantly open pine forest, spotted with clearings. The forest varies in its passability, ranging from sandy soil with ankle-high grass and woody shrubs to low grass with hidden sticks and small logs to bushy thickets. Service roads tend to be hard packed dirt, with some gravel roads. Most mapped trails are simply former logging roads that have become less distinct, although many new single-track trails have also appeared. Widespread timber harvest has given the forest a semi-open character over much of the area.

Driving Directions & Parking

teanaway-openland
The start, finish, and registration area is located on W Fork Teanaway Road, just past the split with Teanaway Road Middle Fork (stay left to keep on W Fork Teanaway Road).

PARKING
Parallel park along the south side of the road to the east of the start. Drive about 50m past the start and turn around in the gravel roundabout, so that you will be facing east to find parking. This roadside parking will fill, at which point you should park as directed by event staff, who may direct you to find parking in the campground or in another overflow parking location.

Be prepared to not have cell reception while you’re approaching the venue! You may want to print directions.

DIRECTIONS

Approximate driving times, without traffic:
From Seattle: 1hr 40min
From Spokane: 3 hours
From Portland: 4 hours
From Bellingham: 3 hours

Google Map

From the West (Seattle):

Take I-90 East
Take EXIT 85 for WA-970 N toward Wenatchee
After you exit, turn LEFT onto WA-10/WA-970
Shortly thereafter, turn RIGHT to stay on WA-10/WA-970
In 6.5 miles, turn LEFT onto Teanaway Rd
Admire the scenery
In 7.3 miles, turn LEFT onto W Fork Teanaway Rd
Continue for about a mile until you see registration tents in a gravel parking lot
From the East (Spokane):

Take I-90 East
Take EXIT 106 for US-97 N toward Wenatchee
After you exit, turn RIGHT then immediately LEFT to stay on US-97 N
Continue to a T intersection, then turn LEFT onto WA-970 W
In 3.4 miles, turn RIGHT onto Teanaway Rd
Admire the scenery
In 7.3 miles, turn LEFT onto W Fork Teanaway Rd
Continue for about a mile until you see registration tents in a gravel parking lot

Lodging & Free Camping

CAMPING
Make it a beautiful weekend by camping at West Fork Teanaway Campground, less than a mile from the start! This is a free campground with pit toilets and no running water or power. There are not designated camping spots, just a lot of flat, open space for you to pitch your tent. West Fork Teanaway Campground (showing as “Teanaway Campground” on Google Maps) was formerly operated by American Forest Resources and was recently transferred to the state within the new Teanaway Community Forest designation.

Google Map

HOTELS
If you prefer warmer and softer accommodations, Cle Elum is just a 30-minute drive from the start, and offers numerous hotel options.

Safety & Etiquette

OTHER USERS
The trails will be open to other users during the event, including pedestrians, cyclists, and equestrians (horseback riders). Please be courteous. Horses have the right of way, and if you encounter a horse in your path, stop running and talk to the rider; you will probably need to step to the side of the trail to let the horse past, but sometimes the rider will tell you it is okay to walk past. The amount of trail traffic will depend upon the weather.

Some dirt roads used by the course have traffic. You may see local property owners driving to and from their cabins, so be alert for vehicles.

DOGS
Dogs are allowed on-leash at this event. Since not everyone is comfortable interacting with dogs, please only bring your dog with you on the course if you can ensure that it does not approach or otherwise interfere with other participants.

EMERGENCIES
Participants are responsible for their own safety while participating, and the organizers are neither qualified nor equipped to render medical care in the event of a serious injury. In case of an emergency, call 9-1-1. You are encouraged to bring a cell phone with you as a safety precaution, if you wish; though know that you may not have cell reception while out on the course or even at the start/finish area.