When forecasts early in the week predicted rain, Werner Haag prayed to the Sons of Odin for dry weather. Due to his prayers or not, the rains held back just long enough for us to hang controls and conduct the meet.
The sunshine brought out 282 participants for the standard 7 courses, plus several more for Start-O and Radio-O. With e-punch registrants topping 100, Robert Lewis said we may have set a record for a non-A meet. We hosted 3 or 4 scout groups, including a group of about 40 from Palo Alto that camped in the park Saturday night.
Werner designed Start-O and the advanced courses, Brad Wetmore designed White and Yellow, and the two collaborated on Orange. We had three different starts: White/Yellow near registration, Orange/Green/Brown in the northwest part of the map (which had not been used for a meet in 12 years), and Red/Blue in the northeast. Folks enjoyed visiting the outer reaches of the map. The whole park boasted a spendid display of wildflowers, especially California poppies. One club veteran was so focused on the flowers that he ran right past one of his controls and had to backtrack.
As for results, junior Jukka Karras came in first on White, beating first-timers Courtland Prestemon and his dad Eric by 32 seconds. David Miles was first on Yellow.
Matt Holman won on Orange by a whopping 37 minutes. Newcomer William Strauss did quite well, leading the pack until the 7th control where he made a parallel reentrant error. He still finished a respectable 4th. Top female finisher was Cheryl Madson in 7th place. This course was a bit too difficult technically, evidenced by lots of DNFs and a winning time of over an hour. At least one first-time Orange team quit partly due to the poison oak, which was heavier than average for our events.
Penny DeMoss cleaned up on Brown. She usually runs a longer course, but wanted to return in time to try Bob Cooley's Radio-O, where she performed well also. Second on Brown, 25 minutes behind Penny, was Patty Clemo. To keep the course short Werner omitted a GO control, having Brown finish from a completely different direction than the other courses. None of the 32 entries seemed to have a problem, thanks partly to the setup crew's expert finish chute design.
Steve Gregg finished first on Green, and Yelena Krasnov, placing fourth, was top female on Green. On Red, Matthias Kohler beat out Tapio Karras by a mere 2 seconds, and the lead changed hands 7 times among 4 runners on the 10-control course. Vivian Lee, the only woman to attempt Red, finished 11th. Vadimas Masalkovas came in first on Blue, with Brian Moore of RMOC finishing second, 13 minutes behind Vadim.
Self-start and carpooling for Red/Blue worked well. The only hitch was that many stubs never made it back to the e-punch station. With careful planning this can be corrected next time.
Sharon Evans took excellent command of the experimental carpool/transit award program, granting Scarborough Orienteering coupons to 31 orienteers who reported arriving in a full vehicle or a vehicle with 3 or more adults. Only one orienteer, Matt Strother, reported taking public transit to the meet, starting in Berkeley and taking BART and two busses before hitchhiking up Mt. Hamilton Rd.
At course closing time of 2:30--a half hour later than usual--several individuals and teams had not yet returned from intermediate and advanced courses. Two or three were still out at 3:30 and small-scale search efforts were initiated by the club. Searchers carried the club's radios; this lessened anxiety about compounding the problem. Everyone returned or was found by 4:00.
Most of the latecomers--including two teams on Blue--felt they couldn't help being late. They didn't know they should constantly monitor their progress, bailing out to a trail or road when tardiness becomes inevitable.
Brad and I were novices at BAOC event production, and Werner had never set using e-punch before, so we relied on plenty of guidance from club veterans. Marsha Jacobs mentored both Brad and me. Others providing significant hand-holding include Abby Wolfe, Evan Custer, Robert Lewis, and Bob Cooley. Finally, the club's published guides on event production was of invaluable assistance.
Thanks to Vladimir Gusiatnikov for armchair vetting, to Syd Reader & Doug Masiel for field vetting, to Jimmy Chung for setting out water, and to Emily Farrah for results tabulation.
Many thanks, too, to our day-of-event helpers, many of whom had never
volunteered at a meet before:
Assistant Meet Director: Van Boughner
Setup: Jeff Lanam, Dean French, Peter Graube, Danielle Cassley,
Jake Kirshner, Thorsten Graeve
Clinics: Nancy Lindeman, Steve Gregg, Peter Graube, Jeff Lanam
Start-O: Robert Strauss, Dean French
Central Start: Kathy Tegtmeier, Thomas Bastis, Danielle Cassley,
Jake Kirshner
Remote Start: Cheryl Madson, Brad Wetmore
Finish: Dayle & Rick Lavine, Cathy Bolger, Theo Verhoeven, Galena
Shakhnevsky, Mike Fleishman, Bill Wright
Pin-punch results: Thorsten Graeve
Control Pickup: Andrew & Vadim Masalkovas, Harold & Penny DeMoss,
John Pagendarm, Werner Haag
Registration: Ev & Jean Beuerman, Sharon Evans
Epunch: Robert Lewis, Jeff Lanam
Below are the results. Also be sure to check out the e-punch splits for the advanced courses.
Results for ARDF Event
2 meters
Pl Name Foxes Time
1 Jay Hennigan 5 63:54
2 Hiroshi Izuta 5 77:00
3 Dean Dods 5 93:59
4 Penny DeMoss 5 95:40
5 Bill Wright 5 120:50
6 Bill Smathers 5 260:00
7 Art Jury, Peter
and Evan Goldstein 5? 240:00 ?
8 Jack and Philip Myers 3 150:00 ?
9 Carl and Aleene Reisinger 2 90:00
10 David Modiano 2 151:00
80 meters
About 5 people got the single 80 meter Fox.
Start-O Course
Pl Name Controls Time Age
Without Help
1 Toby Wong 10 8:00 11
2 Stefan Lowenstein 10 11:56 13
3 Matthias Koal(?) 10 18:45 11
4 Ronald Sajor 10 20:20 12
5 Sahil Doshi 10 20:42 11
6 Aryen Furman 10 30:50 7
7 Ben Wexler 9 28:30 8
8 William Torrey 9 32:10 7
9 Courtland Prestemon 8 22:32 9
With Adult Help
10 Darby 10 10:59 7
11 Brian Twiggs 10 13:15 6
12 Ryoko Izuta 10 21:15 5
13 Johanna Karras 10 22:45 3
14 Katie & Sarah Petersen 10 27:15 3
15 Jimmy Chung 10 55:00 11
16 Alex Evez 8 21:03 7
17 Adam Coquia 8 29:30 12
Pl Name Time
White Course (2.9 km, 50 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Jukka Karras 24:09
2 Eric & Courtland Prestemon 24:41
3 Carol & Jeremy Brouillet 27:02
4 Richard & Eva Koch 27:40
5 Daniel Kopisch 30:14
6 Joanna Pisanski, Paul Rollinger 36:25
7 Nicholas & Julia Kao, Laura Kidder,
Jenny Anderson 36:42
8 Stefan Lowenstein 38:48
9 Matthew Koral 39:02
10 Lauren Fior, Lilliana de los Reyes,
Ashlee Lambert, Alyssa Chandler 40:48
11 Jake, Sam, & Colman Hartinger,
Daniel Brouillet 41:27
12 David & Ezra Van Gelder, Ben Wexler,
Arieh Furman, Dave Torrey 42:33
13 Megan & Liz McElligott, Vicki Kao 45:00
13 Ylena & Alexander Erez 45:00
13 Erin & Laurie Kelm, Nora Kovaleski 45:00
16 William Torrey, Ben Wexler 45:25
17 Jenny Calleros 46:14
18 Elaine Sang, Amanda Lee,
Mary Stoering 47:00
19 Toby Wong, Sahil Doshi 47:38
20 Mark & Darby Oldham 51:00
21 Tom, Kenton, & Tim Stutz; Michael
Riedlin, Karen Allen 52:15
22 Anthony Chu, Galen & Ken Poulton 52:23
23 Orin & Tyler Kinneen, Brent Paulson 53:15
24 Peter, Tony, & Andy Kidder;
Brad & Christian Gates 57:40
25 Larry & Oliver Johnson 1:00:18
26 Steph, Chris, Brian, & Anna Twiggs 1:01:00
27 Ian Henry, Alex Baker, Joseph Suh,
Alex Sutherland 1:02:42
28 John & Karen Albrecht; Paul Owen;
Fritz, Max, & Gretch Wagenesht;
Kyle Noonon 1:05:23
29 Ron & Dakota Baker, Dena McLerran,
Talya Furhman 1:11:02
30 Robert, Elizabeth, Jordan, &
Joshua Franco-Lee 1:16:00
31 Ryoko & Yuko Izuta 1:17:37
32 Nancy & Debbie Wetmore 1:19:00
33 Jack, Peter, & Emily Rexer 1:21:10
34 Linda Ferguson, Sara Kinney 1:22:15
Ronald Sajor MSP 48:53, #8
Adam Coquia MSP 1:03:00, #3
Lisa Booth, James & Ron Danczak DNF Got 7 of 10
Yellow Course (3.3 km, 150 m climb, 12 controls)
1 David Miles 37:00
2 Erel Milshtein 40:00
2 Zbigniew Pisanski 40:00
4 Dean Dods (LAOC) 42:05
5 Vlad Bolshakov, Jenena Belova 44:00
6 Tim & John Kelm 47:00
7 J. Hennigan 54:56
8 Tom Rollinger, Przemek Mazur 55:07
9 Mike Christensen, Kathy Tegtmeier 1:03:51
10 M, Y, P, & T Rabuzzi;
D, R, & J Fisher 1:07:38
11 Sean & Bernhard Hiller 1:09:08
12 Carl & Aleene Reisinger 1:11:08
13 Stephanie & Frank Perez 1:12:00
14 Ron & Emily Thumann 1:14:24
15 Jack & Philip Myers 1:15:11
16 Clare Livak 1:15:20
17 Dan & Keith Veditz 1:16:38
18 Jules Brouillet 1:20:40
19 Galena Shakhnovsky 1:30:00
20 Jane Phillips 1:30:16
21 Janeen & Jeff Swan 1:36:00
22 Robin Pomerance 1:41:29
23 Lauren, Chris, Shirlee, &
Kristen Wemmer (GCO) 1:47:00
24 Hong Lu, Matt Horrell,
Adam Wisnewski 1:50:51
25 Elena Livak 2:08:00
26 Jean Shattuck 2:13:04
27 Georgia Xuereb, Karlie Clima,
Jamie McKeegan 2:33:43
Second Course
Jeremy & Jean-Luc Brouillet 58:23
Stefan Lowenstein 1:07:27
Jenny Calleros 1:33:00
Anthony Chu, Galen & Ken Poulton 1:40:40
Larry & Oliver Johnson 1:41:00
Orange Course (4.38 km, 170 m climb, 12 controls)
1 Matt Holman 1:03:00
2 Steve Rubin 1:39:51
3 Chris List 1:48:38
4 William Strauss 1:51:23
5 Mark & Kathy Turner 2:24:29
6 Chen group 2:27:29
7 Cheryl Madson 2:31:31
8 Poon group 2:39:24
9 Ken Livak 2:58:10
10 Don Gee 3:13:15
11 Brouillet 3:44:04
Cossley & Kirshner DNF
Jaakko Karras DNF
Debbie Clima, Mike Headley DNF
Peter Barberi DNF
Nicole & Libby Cronin DNF
Kevin & Lisa Haugh, Cary Laird DNF
Becky Wong DNF
Ben Goldsmith DNF
David Dipper DNF
Dan Holman DNF
Brown Course (3.70 km, 170 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Penny DeMoss 49:41
2 Patty Clemo 1:14:43
3 Mark Irwin 1:18:28
4 Matt Strother 1:24:00
5 Johanna Merriss 1:30:27
6 Oleg Shakhnovsky 1:30:37
7 Bob Strauss 1:30:46
8 Al Phillips 1:31:00
9 Gregory Khanlarov 1:35:39
10 Alex Warshavsky 1:40:18
11 Alan Glendinning 1:43:06
12 Meg Gerstner 1:45:09
13 Arten Stemkovski 1:48:50
14 Ken Sheaffer, Richard Powell 1:58:17
15 Jennifer Kerr (GCO) 2:00:54
16 Alan Houser, Dave Shaw 2:00:59
17 Jeff & James Tait, Tim Switick 2:11:36
18 Natasha Gelfand 2:11:41
19 Rosemary Johnson 2:14:50
20 Erika Chuang, James Davis
(& Ponch the dog) 2:14:56
21 John Pagendarm 2:36:57
22 Niloy Mitra 2:41:21
23 Cathy Bolger 2:42:35
24 Finney group 2:45:57
25 Nancy Lindeman 2:53:57
26 Tom & Judy Cronin 3:10:30
Barbara Straka DNF
Dean French DNF
Gary Kraght DNF
Audrie Faist DNF
Scott Spears DNF
Bernard Hiller DNF
Green Course (4.92 km, 200 m climb, 13 controls)
1 Steve Gregg 57:47
2 Doug Bass 1:08:57
3 Mark Petersen 1:14:53
4 Yelena Krasnov 1:20:10
5 Joe Scarborough 1:20:28
6 Ian Tidswell 1:25:56
7 Rick Lavine (ROC) 1:27:46
8 Stew Hintz (GCO) 1:34:43
9 Manfred Kopisch 1:35:29
10 Theo Verhoeven 1:40:16
11 Chris Roper 1:42:15
12 Janet Petersen 1:45:58
13 Mike Fleishman 2:04:53
14 Jeff Lanam 2:09:11
15 Wes Erck 2:16:49
16 Phillip Hoare 2:33:07
17 William Straka 2:33:42
18 Svetlana Kopeikina 2:35:02
19 Dayle Lavine (ROC) 2:40:44
20 Laura McKeegan & Rob Clima 2:47:33
21 Vic Revenko 2:51:22
22 Steve Beuerman 2:56:59
Robert Lewis DNF
John Lunsford DNF
Red Course (6.45 km, 310 m climb, 11 controls)
1 Matthias Kohler 1:10:26
2 Tapio Karras 1:10:28
3 Juha Heinonen 1:17:50
4 Thorsten Graeve 1:18:41
5 Kent Ohlund 1:19:02
6 Andrejus Masalkovas 1:23:58
7 Alex Krasnov 1:31:37
8 Hannu Haarma 1:40:04
9 Eric Rosenzweig 1:44:14
10 Chuck Spalding 1:53:13
11 Vivian Lee 1:54:06
12 Mark Blair 1:55:12
Eddy Vromen (GCO) DNF
Blue Course (7.92 km, 380 m climb, 14 controls)
1 Vadimas Masalkovas 1:33:56
2 Brian Moore (RMOC) 1:46:46
3 Nik Weber 1:50:44
4 Matsumi Sugizaki 1:53:40
5 Van Boughner 1:56:51
6 Sunny Tam 2:21:19
7 Peter Graube 2:22:52
8 Oliver Pohl 2:24:00
9 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 2:36:09
10 Devin Prouty 2:52:01
11 Mark Irwin & Thomas Bastis 3:38:28
Kristi & Brian Ridgnos DNF
Dennis Wildfogel DNF
Bruce Wolfe DNF
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DNF = Did not finish
MSP = Mispunched (incorrect controls are noted)