I just received notice that Sunday will be another Orienteering meet at the Topanga State Park. The directions to get there are as follows (taken from the LAOC web page):
Topanga Canyon State Park
Trippet ranch, Topanga State Park, in the Santa Monica mountains. To get there from the 101 in Woodland Hills, go south on Topanga Canyon Blvd about 8 miles. From PCH go north on Topanga Canyon to just past Old Topanga Canyon Rd. Either way, watch for a "Topanga State Park" sign and turn east onto Entrada. Go about a mile, bearing left at the fork. Registration will be at the end of the parking lot in the shaded picnic area. Start times are from 10:00 to noon. Expect a warm, not hot, sunny day with a cooling afternon breeze.
There is a $5 parking fee inside the park so you may want to car pool. Some free roadside or turnout parking spaces from 1/2 to 2km from the entrance exist. From there you can walk or hitch a ride with other orienteers. Come early.
The terrain is very diverse. Lots of open land with oak forest, slow to runable. Typical of the Santa Monicas, dense chaparral covers much of the area, but you will be able to avoid the fight unless you choose to travel through it. . Deep river gullys slice through the old ranch. If you haven't been to a meet here in a few years, you will be delighted by the 5 color map, recently field checked in 95 and further upgraded in 97. Cartography is o-cad.
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Sunday, April 16th
Starts between 10am and noon, Registration opens at 9:30am. 3 hour limit on any course, Control pickup will begin at 2:30pm.
Offering most excellent White, Yellow, Orange, Green and Red point to point courses.
This time of the year the foxtails are still green, so your socks will survive!
See you in the woods, Sue Johnson, Topanga Meet Director