185 people showed up for the annual Big Basin event on September 28 for a rare day of Saturday orienteering. Fortunately, the weather was significantly cooler than the previous weekend at Montebello. In fact, it was a nice cool autumn day; making it ideal orienteering weather. Due to its steepness, Big Basin is always a challenging place to set courses. Due to its low visibility, intricate detail, and inconsistent mapping, it is also always a challenge to orienteer in. And this year was no exception. Congratulations to all who came out and wished this park a Happy 100th Birthday.
David Leach and Brian Jeffrey Allen were first in White; Justin Anderson was first in Yellow and Gary Kraght took first in Orange. Leslie Minarik had the fastest official time on the Green course. Werner Haag basically took the lead during the entire Green course while Tappio Karas led during the entire Red course. The Blue course however, was a close race with only a four-minute difference between first and fourth place; with Vladimir Gustiatnikov ultimately coming in first.
As I was a first-time Meet Director and Doug Stein was a first-time Course Setter, Dennis Wildfogel gave both of us a tremendous amount of assistance, as well as setting the White, Yellow and Orange courses. For several months prior to the event, Dennis continuously brought up details that needed to be addressed, but would have been overlooked by someone with no experience in directing an event. This included determining the appropriate number of maps to print; which resulted in us not running out of the White, Yellow or Orange maps at Big Basin for the first time in four years. And thanks to Doug, whom I think did a lot more than what a Course Setter is supposed to do. Gerry Goss, who as the Assistant Meet Director not only had to put up with me, but was also there to help with all things that need to be done on the day of the event; as well as filling in for gaps in the volunteer schedule.
Thanks to all those who responded to my request for assistance and helped out with this event:
Permit - Alan LaVergne
Vetting - Syd Reader, Trevor Pering (who also helped with course setting)
Map Printing - Bob Cooley
Registration - Jean & Ev Beuerman
Beginner's Clinic - Dan Greene
Starts - Peter Graube, Mike Fleishman, Philip Hoare, Meg Gerstner, Alan Glendenning,
Dean French, Susan Patrick, Eric Curl
Finishes - Louise Madrid, Bill Wright, Audrie Faust, Jascha Lee, Barbara Straka, Melissa Criqui, Steve Jankowski, Chuck Spalding, Terry Farrah
Control Pickup - Jim Waite, Matthias Kohler, Van Boughner, Terry Farrah, Kelly Wells, Chuck Spalding and Mutsumi Sugizaki
Results - Robert Lewis
Pl Name Time White (1.6 km, 10 m climb, 8 controls) 1 David Leach, Brian Jeffrey Allen 22:09 2 Carol Johnson 24:48 3 Maddie Key, Jackie Jones 25:02 4 Laura Ackeman, Amanda Chu 26:40 5 Alex Diaz, Stephanie McCain 27:44 6 Quinn Wildman 28:35 7 Jenny Keip, Kate Williamson 29:45 8 Sean & Bell Bentinek 30:40 9 S. Molina, R. Wiese, L. DeGuzman 30:46 10 Diane Hall 31.56 11 Penny, Kelly, Linda Martinez 34:37 12 Therese Campbell, Lindsey Seril 38:37 13 Stephen Cottrell, Eirene & Eugene Chen 39:40 14 Wet-Zhong, Rachel Zhang 44:11 15 Emily Triciat 45:32 16 Michele, Matthew, D & B Conway 48:09 17 Amanda & Ashley Hayton 52:25 18 Stan & Mary Patrick 52:35 19 Robert & Claudia Carvalho 62:42 20 Anita Johnson, Osiris Naranjo 89:50 21 Kleveland 100:00 Bill Haughney DNF Yellow (2.5 km, 60 m climb, 8 controls) 1 Justin Anderson 27:14 2 Gary Martinez 36:24 3 Ethan Dreyfuss 36:47 4 Chris Buchner 37:15 5 David Dippon, Renee St. Gerneise 44:38 6 Rachel Care 44:47 7 Oliver Pohl 44:48 8 Angerbauer 47:02 9 Susan Petrick, Eric Curl 48:40 10 J. Lautz, B. & N. Hightduddis 65:09 11 Jill Custer 66:38 12 Allison & Jasen Grandstedt 66:49 13 Roberta Pitsenbarger 67:00 14 Kelly McMillan, Kristen Pitsenbarger 67:25 15 Barbara Bunsey 67:28 16 Nicole, Libby, Helga Cronin 68:25 17 Ev & Jean Beuerman 69:40 18 Ernesto Rodrigues, Daniel Limon 72:48 19 Bob, Laura, Alex, Rachel Ward 73:28 20 Cameron Tulete, Jennifer Merris 73:57 21 Dan, Laurie, Sharon Evans 78:47 22 Galena Shakhnovsky 82:25 23 Mike Riley & Mark Bickerstaffe 85:44 24 Rebecca & Adam Redfield 90:10 25 Kate & Witter 94:08 26 Caitlin & Susie Hansen 96:23 27 Bob & Jared Hansen 108:50 28 Ed Cassada 114:57 Second Course Eugene Chen, Stephen Cottrell 45:58 Richard Wiese 68:46 Diane Hall 70:49 Alex Diaz, Stephanie McCain 71:15 Jenny Kiep, Kate Williamson 74:59 Quinn Wildman MP Therese Campbell, Lindsey Seril DNF Orange (3.2 km, 120 m climb, 10 controls) 1 Gary Kraght 42:33 2 Marie-Josee Parayre 45:58 3 Hardev & Robin Grewal 63:47 4 Chris List 63:48 5 Todd Bredehoft 64:49 6 Melissa Criqui 66:45 7 Dan Veditz 71:50 8 Chris Linn 73:33 9 Judy & Tom Cronin 81:08 10 Mark & Kathy Turner 81:48 11 Julie van Hoff, Mike Miller, Gary Gilman, Greg Ward 90:28 12 Helen Sabin 91:30 13 Barbara Straka 96:37 14 Jim Hayes 112:25 15 Audrie Faist 126:40 16 Stephen Manz, Marla Stein 134:55 17 Harry Hall, Garrett Pitsenbarger 154:38 18 Jen Oakes, David Higgs 156:53 19 Delana Parker, Nicole Iwo 174:02 20 J. & D. Hegarty, Becky Jones 175:25 Second Course Ethan Dreyfuss 42:37 Oliver Pohl 47:52 Brown (2.8 km, 150 m climb, 9 controls) 1 Dennis Wildfogel 1:07:29 2 Leslie Minarik 1:14:06 3 Elliott Delaye 1:21:52 4 Bill Wright 1:24:57 5 Oleg Shakhnovsky 1:44:13 6 Jascha Lee 1:58:43 7 Johanna Merriss 2:28:39 Laura McKeegan DNF Second Course Chris Buchner DNF Justin Anderson DNF Green (3.8 km, 200 m climb, 11 controls) 1 Werner Haag 1:05:12 2 Chuck Spalding 1:13:37 3 Evan Custer 1:17:49 4 Steve Jankowski 1:20:48 5 George Minarik 1:26:54 6 Blanquart Guillaume 1:33:59 7 Alan Glendinning, Meg Gerstner 1:49:11 8 Phillip Hoare 2:12:30 9 Jill Seaman 2:17:49 10 Mike Fleishman 2:37:45 11 Terry Farrah (RMOC) 2:42:44 Steve Beuerman DNF Jay Hann DNF Robert Lewis DNF William Straka DNF Byron Hann DNF David Bunsey DNF Red (4.9 km, 300 m climb, 15 controls) 1 Tapio Karras 1:10:23 2 Dan Greene 1:19:19 3 Kent Ohlund 1:28:07 4 Ian Tidswell 1:33:01 5 Matthias Kohler 1:45:55 6 Bill Papendick 1:53:17 7 Peter Graube 1:57:21 8 Johan Ovenby 2:11:29 9 Andresus Masalkovas 2:12:04 10 Vivian Lee 2:18:35 Rich Parker (SDO) DNF Jim Waite DNF Craig Huff DNF Mark Blair DNF Blue (6.5 km, 370 m climb, 19 controls) 1 Vladimir Gusiatnikov 1:36:00 2 Bruce Wolfe 1:38:05 3 Juha Heinonen 1:39:33 4 Van Boughner 1:40:15 5 Thorsten Graeve 1:52:50 6 Vadimas Masalkovas 2:14:22 7 Bisang Otti (BASEL) 2:16:47 8 Penny DeMoss 2:22:49 Francis Leonard DNF David Dreyfuss DNF _______________ MP = MisPunched DNF = Did Not Finish