POCAR, or Purdue Outing Club Adventure Race, is a 48 hour orienteering race held over Martin Luther King weekend in Southern Indiana. This year’s race will be held in the Hoosier National Forest in the Hickory Ridge trail area. The race will begin at 12:00 p.m. Saturday, Jan 17, 2009 at Maumee Scout Camp, and end at 12:00 p.m. Monday, Jan 19, 2008. There will be ~2-3 fire/water checkpoints, as well as several mystery events. Teams will be given UTM coordinates for checkpoints, and must be able to plot and navigate to the points on their own! So make sure that there are at least 1 or 2 people on your team that can do this and are capacle of orienteering– no assistance will be provided on the day of the race! Volunteers will be constantly patrolling roads during the race in case a team is lost, hurt, or decides to drop out of the race. Trail Running/Walking Entry Fee( USD ) 45

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