A brown dashed line on the map which indicates a visible ridge or mound which is not high enough to be shown with the map's contour lines.

Map Features

Climb

An event conforming to the highest United States Orienteering Federation standards. Performance in "A" meets counts in determining national rankings of competitive orienteers. &q [..]

A Bike-O is a variation of a normal Orienteering event. Instead of walking or running, you ride a bicycle. Instead of through the woods, you travel on the streets. As with regular orienteering the obj [..]

A free standing rock, large enough to be distinguished from its surroundings. It is mapped as a black dot. "C" Meet A local event which does not count in the rankings.

A vertical or nearly vertical feature. Ordinarily a cliff less than two meters high isn't mapped. A mapped cliff is shown on the map by a black bar with teeth—it looks like a comb.

The amount of uphill climbing (ignoring downhill travel) that must be done to complete a course. Some routes may minimize climb, but be quite long. Others may be short, but have a lot of climb. The co [..]

A brown line on the map that is at constant altitude. When you cross a contour line on the map, you are going up or down hill—you must use other evidence to determine which (for example, if y [..]

A nylon marker hung at each feature on the course. It has three sides, divided diagonally between white and red (or orange) halves. A punch for marking your control card is attached to the control, or [..]