On Sunday, September 24, more than 200 orienteers took on the challenging terrain of Big Basin State Park. Below are the complete results. Also be sure to check out the e-punch splits for the advanced courses (Brown through Blue).
The number of Orange orienteers particularly surprised us; we ran out of Orange maps, and had to recirculate maps to the remote start. The more than 60 Orange orienteers may have been drawn by the promise of an intermediate clinic, or the promise of an appropriately difficult Orange course. Whatever the reason, their turnout was welcome, and I'm sure the experience of orienteering in Big Basin will carry them a significant step closer to doing advanced courses in the future.
Congratulations to all orienteers who tried the courses at Big Basin; as I'm sure you discovered, Big Basin has a rare combination of low visibility, intricate detail, and unusual mapping conventions (not to mention some mapping inaccuracies) that make the orienteering very challenging.
The WinSplits results showed a curious phenomenon on Blue: Almost everbody who finished the course had a first leg that was flagged as "time lost" (that is, the program determined that the orienteer had a poor result on that leg), while almost everyone who had a good first leg didn't finish the course. I don't know exactly what this shows. It could indicate:
Events like this depend on lots of volunteers. I'd like to thank Nick Corsano for setting the advanced courses. By a combination of map editing and rerouting he was able to avoid the worst problems of the Big Basin map and to create challenging courses with accurate control placement. I'd also like to thank Mark Rice for setting the beginning and intermediate courses; he did particularly well at one of the more difficult course setting tasks: getting the level of difficulty correct for the Orange course.
In addition, I'd like to thank Bob Cooley for printing the maps, the Scarboroughs for pre-running, Jean and Ev Beuerman and Esther Heller for registration, Neal Barlow for beginner's clinics, Abby Wolfe for intermediate clinics, Robert Lewis for organizing the e-punch results, Matthias Kohler for helping with the starts, and Alan Glendinning and Meg Gerstner for helping with the beginning course finishes and results. Finally, at the end of the day it was great to have a full crew to pick up controls: Gary Carpenter, Harold and Penny DeMoss, David Dreyfuss, Parag Gupta, Theo Verhoeven, and Kelly Wells.
White
1 Gary, Jim Hafly 20:07
2 Kesly Wyatt-Mair 32:07
3 Ed Landerfeld 33:40
4 Candice Tuttle, Susan Williams 34:58
5 Peter, Jack Rexer 40:19
6 Sarah, Richard, Kyle Asano 48:28
7 Lee Salazar 49:54
8 Mitchell, Christopher Benedetti, Daniel Dill, Ryan Lee 50:05
9 Andrew, Karen Lekashman, David, Nancy Lindskog 58:01
Yellow
1 Susan Petrick 37:44
2 Malcolm Wyatt-Mair 43:43
3 Cecilia Kendall, Ben Foley, Thomas Dietiker 49:40
4 Stephen & Janine Faelz 50:45
5 Greg Favor, Leslie Weise 56:18
6 Kathy Devoy 63:19
7 Greg & Shelly Heironimus 64:40
8 Galina Shakhmovsky 65:16
9 Jim & Gary Hafley 66:33
10 Becky & Adam Redfield 72:07
11 Tyler & Nathan Jones, Brian Toulouse 72:45
12 Mike Christenson, Kathy Tegtmeier 76:00
13 Garrett Pitsenbarger 79:53
14 Joel Stepanek 80:41
15 Ed Landefeld 81:31
16 Rachel Care 83:14
17 Doug Dodge 85:44
18 Jennifer Lautz, Brad Hightdudis 86:01
19 Roy & Susan & Hannan & Beckey Want 90:53
20 John Turner, Michelle Dick 94:14
21 Roni Dodson, John Schuyler 98:57
22 Ryan Dave Chris Mitchel 100:13
23 Kristen & Roberta Pitsenbarger, Diane Hall 100:26
24 Ann Trautwein 111:35
Ethan Dreyfuss MSP (33:27)
Katherine Anthony MSP (74:35)
Jim Martin MSP (97:19)
Ed Richards DNF
Orange
1 Parag Gupta 41:00
2 Angelica Riley, Linda Spranz 55:19
3 Leon Berzins, Angie Niles 57:18
4 Quent Cordair 61:02
5 Lenny Woo, Tuyen Nguyen 64:40
6 Erin Krueger 66:30
7 Kristen McGuire 67:03
8 Mike Rogers, Scott Brown 73:45
9 Leena Ilmarinen 75:25
10 Melissa Criqui 76:14
11 Chris Day, Dan Zimmer 77:11
12 Barbara Straka 81:11
13 Mitch Pearlman, Darek Zieba, Bruno Plamenpol 85:44
14 Jeff Niemela, Ben Marguez 86:27
15 Colin & Garin Mazaika 87:47
16 Natasha Gelfand, Vaso Chatzi 88:15
17 Jack Myers, Paul Mazaika 94:14
18 Tom, Judy, Zoey, Nicole, & Libby Cronin 94:28
19 Grant Glouser 95:11
20 Elliot Young 101:50
21 Lauren Wemmer 107:22
22 Denise Wojtowicz 107:50
23 Kenneth Russell 120:42
24 Spencer King, sean Nowanc 136:41
25 Kevin Walker 136:43
26 Justin Toulousz, Kevin Brown 138:42
27 Mary & Eugene Moore, Shawn Macafery 148:11
28 Bob Joyce Lindsay Simon Steinfeld 158:46
Jamie Shkolnik, Catherine Golden DNF (86:18; missed #3)
Cathy Bolger, Ken Smith DNF (105:07; missed #2)
Ben Foley, Thomas Dieter DNF
Kathy Devoy DNF
Larry Heller, Sue Branson, Pat Jones DNF
Audrie Faist DNF
Brown
1 47021 Douhovnikoff Vladimir BAOC 1:01:03
2 46533 Kirschenbaum Leif BAOC 1:04:22
3 37764 DeMoss Harold BAOC 1:18:47
4 47011 Ilmarinen Heini BAOC 1:20:08
5 47016 Aster Scott BAOC 1:20:29
6 43873 Gerstner Meg BAOC 1:59:04
7 47008 Young Michael BAOC 1:59:51
8 47013 Chen Carol BAOC 2:10:37
9 47012 Hightower Jeff BAOC 2:13:42
43850 Scarborough Joe BAOC dnf
43884 Lindeman Nancy BAOC dnf
47009 Keeling Drew BAOC dnf
46543 Shirley Christine BAOC dnf
47017 White Susan BAOC dnf
47019 Allman Paul BAOC dnf
Green
1 46504 Jankowski Steve BAOC 1:05:13
2 46585 Minarik Sarah BAOC 1:09:09
3 47005 Papendick Joe BAOC 1:12:18
4 46514 Steuben Anneliese BAOC 1:13:03
5 47007 Martin Adrian BAOC 1:16:07
6 43872 Glendinning Alan BAOC 1:17:27
7 47020 Mueller Stefan BAOC 1:17:42
8 46537 Minarik George BAOC 1:20:21
9 47015 Brunzell Anna BAOC 1:21:27
10 47004 Durand Clare BAOC 1:33:11
11 43859 Wildfogel Dennis BAOC 1:48:54
12 46588 Parker Rich SDO 1:50:13
13 46534 Clemo Patty BAOC 1:52:12
14 43877 Wolfe Abby BAOC 1:59:13
15 46582 Madrid Louise BAOC 2:02:44
16 46521 Wojtowicz Debbie BAOC 2:04:02
17 46572 Goss Gerry BAOC 2:07:27
18 46536 Hoare Phillip BAOC 2:09:08
19 46573 Goss Stacy BAOC 2:09:10
20 47024 Straka Bill BAOC 2:19:03
21 47006 Marshall John BAOC 2:21:47
22 46538 Minarik Leslie BAOC 2:22:30
23 43883 Beuerman Steve BAOC 2:24:25
24 43876 Hintz Stew GCO 2:27:17
25 43867 Verhoevan Theo BAOC 2:30:59
26 47003 Duggan Jim BAOC 3:47:20 (OT)
46513 Johnson Rosemary BAOC dnf
47002 Kemp Raymond BAOC dnf
46617 Lanam Jeff BAOC dnf
46598 Shakhnovsky Oleg BAOC dnf
Red
1 43887 Karras Tapio BAOC 1:10:21
2 43857 Carpenter Gary BAOC 1:14:39
3 43865 Ohlund Kent BAOC 1:18:48
4 43882 Wells Kelly BAOC 1:37:23
5 43899 Kohler Matthias BAOC 1:43:47
6 43870 Weber Nick BAOC 1:47:26
7 47014 Bassett Bruce BAOC 1:53:34
8 43866 Haarma Hannu BAOC 1:54:47
9 46529 Green Russell BAOC 1:55:41
10 43858 Cooley Bob BAOC 2:01:13
11 47010 Taylor Chris BAOC 2:05:46
12 43898 Papendick Bill BAOC 2:08:42
13 46520 Schoenfeld Kevin BAOC 2:28:43
14 43854 Blair Mark BAOC 2:33:55
15 46574 Graube Peter BAOC 2:34:32
16 46604 Spalding Chuck BAOC 2:34:52
43869 Larsen Shawn BAOC dnf
46519 Pinkham Tony BAOC dnf
Blue
1 43875 Stein Doug BAOC 1:38:41
2 46592 Riley Wyatt BAOC 1:43:13
3 43888 Reader Syd BAOC 1:47:15
4 43856 Graeve Thorsten BAOC 2:36:09
5 43878 Wyatt-Mair Gavin BAOC 2:48:04
6 43855 Winterbottom Rex BAOC 3:14:12 (OT)
43851 Scarborough James BAOC dnf
47001 Jaehn Group BAOC dnf
43874 Boughner Van BAOC dnf
37963 DeMoss Penny BAOC dnf
43868 Gregg Steve BAOC dnf
47018 Dreyfuss David BAOC dnf
43890 Haaramo Panu BAOC dnf