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Sunday
Nov. 16, 2003 - San Rafael, CA.
Meet director:
Joan
Roos, 510-526-9071
Course setter: Evan Custer
The China Camp Club Championships went very smoothly.
First, the weather was perfect.
The
footing was excellent.
The rangers
were happy.
Second,
Evan managed the Course Setting, e punch, and many other troublesome
details that presented themselves. He also guided Rob Clima and Laura
McKeegan in their white and yellow course setting. Rob and Laura worked
long and hard before and during the meet doing many, many tasks. All
these
efforts were well received and admired.
Third, we had plenty of volunteer help
which makes light work for all. Some folks
were sent away without enough to suit them.
Penny and Harold did major tent duty and then did major control pick up duty.
Bob Cooley made his frequent and extensive remapping, vetting, and printing contribution.
We missed him and Patty at the meet.
Tom and Sandy Guldman did white and yellow starts almost all day.
Judy Koehler and Brad Wetmore did the beginnner's clinics.
James Wilson and Vivian Lee managed registration.
The
rest of these names did several jobs a piece, many of which came up unexpectedly
during the meet.
Bud Laird
Ian
Tidswell
John
Brown
Shirley
Pierce
Bill
Papendick
Charlie
McCarthy
Leslie
Minarik
George
Minarik
Gary
Kraght
Nancy
Lindeman
Anne
Gorby
Trinka
Gillis
Bjorn
Widerstrom
Mark
Prior
Cheryl
Madson
Joe Papendick
Rebeca Ramirez
Matthias Kohler
Francois Leonard
Steve Gregg
Wes Erck
Wendell
Doman
Vladimir
Gusiatnikov
You
see what a long list this is and they all smiled. They
made being meet director easy. It was wonderful. Anyone
who helped but is missing from this list also deserves thanks.
- Joan
At China Camp, there are a large
number of nests on the ground made of sticks, usually near the base of a tree.
Here's a picture of one.
These nests or lodges are made by the Dusky footed wood rat, or Neotoma fuscipes,
also called a pack rat. They can be up to 2 meters wide and 2 meters tall.
It seems like something that big deserves to be mapped. ;-) I don't know
how long a lodge lasts, however, and then one would have the problem of what size
one would have to be to be mapped. Both Bob and I think that there are a lot more
lodges in the park now than there were several years ago. I wonder if there
is any relationship to the increase in the wood rat population and the sudden
oak death syndrome.
The dusky footed wood rat is a nocturnal animal,
and is around 40 cm long, half of which is the tail. It is only found along
the Pacific Coast from Washington to California, and they prefer oak forests.
Their main predators are owls, coyotes, skunks. They can harbor the organism
for Lyme disease.
-
Evan
As a former docent
at Big Basin, I can verify: dusky-footed wood rats (aka 'pack rats') make big
nests. And they can be thousands of years old - no kiddin'! I don't have my docent
manual handy (probably pitched it when I moved north) so can't give you the exact
quote. Doubt if any in China Camp qualify, but there you have it.
- Abby
Indeed, packrat middens ("nests") are a valuable paleoecological tool. By examining the fossil animal bits, wood, bark, leaves, seeds, and pollen (my favorite) found inside the preserved nests one can build a picture of the past ecology of the area. The neat thing about packrats is that they don't go very far from their nest. If you've got a midden in a cave you can be pretty sure that that's where the packrat lived 2000 or 10000 years ago. And the best part - the preservation of these middens is made possible by the existence of crystallized urine.
Anyhoo, I'll leave this to someone else to find a way to bring this back to orienteering. ;-)
- Cristina
Indeed, packrat middens ("nests") are a valuable paleoecological tool. By examining the fossil animal bits, wood, bark, leaves, seeds, and pollen (my favorite) found inside the preserved nests one can build a picture of the past ecology of the area. The neat thing about packrats is that they don't go very far from their nest. If you've got a midden in a cave you can be pretty sure that that's where the packrat lived 2000 or 10000 years ago. And the best part - the preservation of these middens is made possible by the existence of crystallized urine.
Anyhoo, I'll leave this to someone else to find a way to bring this back to orienteering. ;-)
- Cristina
If you
want to compare splits across courses, here is the list of common
legs.
106: Bl 3, R3, G3, Br3
104: R4, G4
103:
Bl 7, R5, G5
129: Bl 8, R6,
G6
101: Bl 9, R7, G7
102: Bl 10, R8
109:
Bl 15, R10
110: Bl 16, R11
111:
Bl 17, R12
200: Bl 18, R13
119: G10, Br5
53:
G11, Br6
120: G12, Br7
131:
G13, Br8
200: G14, Br9
- Evan
Results
China Camp State Park San Rafael, CA Sunday, November 16, 2003 Preliminary Results Pl Name Time White Course (1.52 km, 60 m climb, 11 controls) 1 Robin Leadbetter 14:08 Female Junior Winner 2 Jack & Tom Kendall 14:42 Male Junior Winners 3 Joanne Leadbetter 16:08 4 Katie Bettini, Nicole Rehder 19:23 5 Mary Dee, Jess Bailey 20:22 6 Ian Trimmer, Alex Mohr, group=homies 23:10 7 Alex Pugliese 23:31 8 Tom Soares, Nicole Weber, John Ludwig 24:51 9 Audrey Davis 26:58 10 Kate & Annie Worth, Molly & Tom Mitchel, Dosh McClendon 34:44 11 Chris, Mark & Steve O'Keefe 46:15 Rory & Steph Maclean MSP Yellow Course (1.88 km, 110 m climb, 12 controls) 1 Tom Soares, Nicole Weber, John Ludwig 25:22 2 San Rafael High School group 4 28:48 Male Junior Winners 3 Sandy & Tom Guldman 29:51 4 David & Sandra Kendall 30:15 5 Charles McCarthy 30:42 6 Kent Hetherwick 31:14 7 Kelsey Wyatt-Mair 32:13 Female Junior Winner 8 John M. Brown 33:42 9 Elizabeth Salsburg, Jonathan Frank, Rebecca & Zachary Salsburg-Frank 37:05 10 Craig King 42:37 11 Los Mysteriosos, aka Graham Rogers & Brian Allen 43:35 12 Mike Headley, Heather Foos 44:06 13 Sara Solli, Kyra Simon, Jane Evan 44:48 14 Lars & Honey Roost 45:31 15 San Rafael High School group 1 46:36 16 Matthew Mattson, Farah Mavandadi 46:44 17 Becky Wong 47:49 18 Chris, Mark & Steve O'Keefe 48:15 19 Stephanie Gilbert, Tamara Evan, Ron Stine 49:33 20 Ernest Gomes 49:44 21 San Rafael High School group 3 50:28 22 Doug & Makiko Bass 50:56 23 Will & Ian Lamers 51:16 24 San Rafael High School Group 2 52:36 25 Cathy, Pat, John, & Anna McKenna 52:52 26 Creighton & Colton Bell 52:59 27 Ngonyan Ng, Wanchung Cheung 56:32 28 Galena Shakhnovsky 59:53 29 Fla toast and Cats 60:16 30 Sami Chan, Elise Rheiner 64:51 31 San Rafael High School group 5 71:55 32 Carl & Gavin Williams, Sanelma Smith 82:28 33 Robert Cox 92:37 34 Therese Hutcheson 110:42 Karen Rehder MSP _______________ MSP = Mispunched (one or more incorrect controls) Preliminary E-Punch Results by Class Course Statistics Course Length Climb Controls Orange 2.85 km 165 m 8 Adventure Race 3.48 230 11 Brown 2.10 180 9 Green 3.35 245 15 Red 5.38 350 13 Blue 6.25 530 18 Pl Name Time Orange Course - Male - Junior 1 Malcom Wyatt-Mair 33:50 Orange Course - Female - Adult 1 Kamini Singha 1:17:23 2 Cheryl Madson 2:04:23 3 Marina Jaehn 2:50:27 Orange Course - Male - Adult 1 Lukas Gruendler 44:04 2 Eric Burris 2:05:59 3 Craig King 2:16:22 4 Jim Fish 2:44:56 Bryan Ritter DNF Orange Course - Female - Veteran 1 Judy Koehler 2:44:08 Orange Course - Male - Veteran 1 Charles McCarthy 1:13:54 Orange Course - Group 1 Kendall Group 1:05:01 2 Pokman Chung, Kenny Yu 1:33:24 3 Collins Group 2:05:58 4 Sabrina Law, Janet Kan 2:51:24 Frantz, O'Shea DNF Adventure Race Training Course - Female - Adult 1 Marie-Josee Parayre 1:38:47 Adventure Race Training Course - Male - Adult 1 Doug Bass 40:54 2 Denis Kourakin 1:10:38 3 Steven Gough 1:44:09 4 Thiago Ghilardi 1:45:57 5 Adam Riskon 2:17:12 Adventure Race Training Course - Male - Veteran Greg Oldberg DNF Adventure Race Training Course - Group 1 Pam Gott, Brian Schmitz 1:27:49 2 Graham Meeze, Brian Paton, Gialen Lich 1:54:54 3 Dan Freeman, Sean Clancy 1:54:58 4 Chris Rilling, David & Melanie Palmer 2:32:31 Brown Course - Female - Junior 1 Arwen Wyatt-Mair 1:42:10 Brown Course - Female - Adult Trinka Gillis DNF Brown Course - Male - Adult 1 Bjorn Widerstrom 1:29:53 2 Matt Stroth 1:55:06 3 Martin Taylor 2:06:57 4 Sean Campbell 2:44:27 Richard Hellyer DNF Brown Course - Female - Veteran 1 Leslie Minarik 1:32:56 2 Barbara Straka 1:37:09 3 Nancy Lindeman 3:10:46 Rosemary Johnson DNF Brown Course - Male - Veteran 1 Harold DeMoss 58:25 2 Dwight Freund 1:09:59 3 Oleg Shakhnovsky 1:35:20 4 Alan Houser 1:39:52 Brown Course - Group 1 Dill and Ramstetter 1:07:54 2 Clima Rob, McKeegan Laura 1:31:36 Green Course - Female - Adult 1 Heidi Whalen 1:26:27 Green Course - Male - Adult 1 Devin Prouty 1:04:41 2 Gary Kraght 1:08:59 3 Theo Verheuen 1:19:39 4 Bill Wright 1:26:21 5 Brad Wetmore 1:26:59 6 Bobby Poon 1:30:33 7 Trevor Pering 1:32:53 8 Bill Whalen 1:34:26 9 James Puckett 1:41:33 10 Jeff Lanam 2:06:15 11 Bob Strauss 2:08:11 12 Bud Laird 2:20:32 Leif Kirschenbaum DNF Green Course - Female - Veteran 1 Jennifer Kerr (GCO) 2:07:49 Green Course - Male - Veteran 1 Hannu Haarma 49:07 2 George Minarik 1:09:40 3 Bill Papendick 1:10:30 4 Chuck Spalding 1:15:10 5 Mike Fleishman 1:25:04 6 William Straka 1:41:43 7 Wes Erck 2:10:21 8 Dave Ingram (GCO) 2:24:58 9 Vic Revenko 2:41:35 Philip Hoare DNF Red Course - Female - Adult 1 Vivian Lee 1:39:49 Red Course - Male - Adult 1 Matthias Kohler 1:06:55 2 Joe Papendick 1:08:46 3 Kent Ohlund 1:10:54 4 Tapio Karras 1:11:21 5 Juha Heinonen 1:15:59 6 Ian Tidswell 1:18:48 7 Dan Greene 1:19:21 8 Derek MacLean 1:22:06 9 CJ Powers 1:29:16 10 Michael Bohrens 1:30:36 11 AJ Ritter 1:41:19 12 Eric Rosenzweig 1:44:14 13 James Wilson 1:44:54 14 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 2:06:39 15 Dan Holman 2:23:50 Rod Jaehn DNF Red Course - Male - Veteran 1 Mark Blair 2:07:54 Blue Course - Male - Adult 1 Doug Stein 1:10:30 2 Francois Leonard 1:12:24 3 Syd Reader 1:12:59 4 Steve Gregg 1:16:16 5 Mark Prior 1:23:54 6 Travis Parker 1:31:20 7 Rex Winterbottom 1:37:00 8 Andrejus Masalkovas 1:41:09 9 Matt Holman 1:57:01 10 Jon Bonwich 2:00:40 Blue Course - Female - Veteran 1 Penny DeMoss 2:01:37 Blue Course - Group 1 Brian Hastings, Jonathan Owens 2:29:03 Pilley Ralph, White Ken DNF _______________ DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls) ____________________________________________________________ Preliminary E-Punch Results by Course Pl Name Class Time Orange Course (2.85 km, 165 m climb, 8 controls) 1 Malcom Wyatt-Mair OMJ 33:50 2 Lukas Gruendler OMA 44:04 3 Kendall Group OG 1:05:01 4 Charles McCarthy OMV 1:13:54 5 Kamini Singha OFA 1:17:23 6 Pokman Chung, Kenny Yu OG 1:33:24 7 Cheryl Madson OFA 2:04:23 8 Collins Group OG 2:05:58 9 Eric Burris OMA 2:05:59 10 Craig King OMA 2:16:22 11 Judy Koehler OFV 2:44:08 12 Jim Fish OMA 2:44:56 13 Marina Jaehn OFA 2:50:27 14 Sabrina Law, Janet Kan OG 2:51:24 Frantz, O'Shea OG DNF Bryan Ritter OMA DNF Adventure Race Training Course (3.48 km, 230 m climb, 11 controls) 1 Doug Bass ArMA 40:54 2 Denis Kourakin ArMA 1:10:38 3 Pam Gott, Brian Schmitz ArG 1:27:49 4 Marie-Josee Parayre ArFA 1:38:47 5 Steven Gough ArMA 1:44:09 6 Thiago Ghilardi ArMA 1:45:57 7 Graham Meeze, Brian Paton, Gialen Lich ArG 1:54:54 8 Dan Freeman, Sean Clancy ArG 1:54:58 9 Adam Riskon ArMA 2:17:12 10 Chris Rilling, David & Melanie Palmer ArG 2:32:31 Greg Oldberg ArMV DNF Brown Course (2.10 km, 180 m climb, 9 controls) 1 Harold DeMoss BrMV 58:25 2 Dill, Ramstetter BrG 1:07:54 3 Dwight Freund BrMV 1:09:59 4 Bjorn Widerstrom BrMA 1:29:53 5 Rob Clima, Laura McKeegan BrG 1:31:36 6 Leslie Minarik BrFV 1:32:56 7 Oleg Shakhnovsky BrMV 1:35:20 8 Barbara Straka BrFV 1:37:09 9 Alan Houser BrMV 1:39:52 10 Arwen Wyatt-Mair BrFJ 1:42:10 11 Matt Stroth BrMA 1:55:06 12 Martin Taylor BrMA 2:06:57 13 Sean Campbell BrMA 2:44:27 14 Nancy Lindeman BrFV 3:10:46 Richard Hellyer BrMA DNF Rosemary Johnson BrFV DNF Trinka Gillis BrFA DNF Green Course (3.35 km, 245 m climb, 15 controls) 1 Hannu Haarma GMV 49:07 2 Devin Prouty GMA 1:04:41 3 Gary Kraght GMA 1:08:59 4 George Minarik GMV 1:09:40 5 Bill Papendick GMV 1:10:30 6 Chuck Spalding GMV 1:15:10 7 Theo Verheuen GMA 1:19:39 8 Mike Fleishman GMV 1:25:04 9 Bill Wright GMA 1:26:21 10 Heidi Whalen GFA 1:26:27 11 Brad Wetmore GMA 1:26:59 12 Bobby Poon GMA 1:30:33 13 Trevor Pering GMA 1:32:53 14 Bill Whalen GMA 1:34:26 15 James Puckett GMA 1:41:33 16 William Straka GMV 1:41:43 17 Jeff Lanam GMA 2:06:15 18 Jennifer Kerr (GCO) GFV 2:07:49 19 Bob Strauss GMA 2:08:11 20 Wes Erck GMV 2:10:21 21 Bud Laird GMA 2:20:32 22 Dave Ingram (GCO) GMV 2:24:58 23 Vic Revenko GMV 2:41:35 Leif Kirschenbaum GMA DNF Philip Hoare GMV DNF Red Course (5.38 km, 350 m climb, 13 controls) 1 Matthias Kohler RMA 1:06:55 2 Joe Papendick RMA 1:08:46 3 Kent Ohlund RMA 1:10:54 4 Tapio Karras RMA 1:11:21 5 Juha Heinonen RMA 1:15:59 6 Ian Tidswell RMA 1:18:48 7 Dan Greene RMA 1:19:21 8 Derek MacLean RMA 1:22:06 9 CJ Powers RMA 1:29:16 10 Michael Bohrens RMA 1:30:36 11 Vivian Lee RFA 1:39:49 12 AJ Ritter RMA 1:41:19 13 Eric Rosenzweig RMA 1:44:14 14 James Wilson RMA 1:44:54 15 Gavin Wyatt-Mair RMA 2:06:39 16 Mark Blair RMV 2:07:54 17 Dan Holman RMA 2:23:50 Rod Jaehn RMA DNF Blue Course (6.25 km, 530 m climb, 18 controls) 1 Doug Stein BlMA 1:10:30 2 Francois Leonard BlMA 1:12:24 3 Syd Reader BlMA 1:12:59 4 Steve Gregg BlMA 1:16:16 5 Mark Prior BlMA 1:23:54 6 Travis Parker BlMA 1:31:20 7 Rex Winterbottom BlMA 1:37:00 8 Andrejus Masalkovas BlMA 1:41:09 9 Matt Holman BlMA 1:57:01 10 Jon Bonwich BlMA 2:00:40 11 Penny DeMoss BlFV 2:01:37 12 Brian Hastings, Jonathan Owens BlG 2:29:03 Pilley Ralph, White Ken BlG DNF _______________ Class is determined by three criteria: Course (O = Orange, AR = Adventure Race, Br = Brown, G = Green, R = Red, Bl = Blue) Sex (M = Male, F = Female, G = Group) Age (J = Junior, A = Adult, V = Veteran) DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)