Big Basin

Boulder Creek
Sept. 28, 2002

by Stacy Goss, meet director

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


Results

Also be sure to check out the e-punch splits for the advanced courses.

  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
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MP = MisPunched
DNF = Did Not Finish