Joseph D. Grant County Park
Date: (Sun.) Mar. 30, 2014
Location: San Jose, CA
Event Director: 
- 408.878.5073
Course Setters: Werner Haag, Rory Maclean, Derek Maclean
Type: B; Standard 7-course event visiting the southern part of the park. Beginner instruction & courses offered.
Related Event Information
Event Announcement WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=29837) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=333) Results of Saturday TrailCross
Event Write-Up
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The rain clouds parted for a day, allowing 220 people to orienteer in near-perfect conditions at Joe Grant Park.
Rory Maclean (age 15), having set the White and Yellow courses the past two years, set the Orange course this year, in addition to White and Yellow. It's great to see the younger generation mature.
Werner Haag set the advanced courses. He structured Green, Red, and Blue to start from high up the road, covering terrain rarely seen. The views of the green hills were spectacular. There were only one or two DNFs on each course, indicating that they weren't too hard or too easy. The map is showing its age: in one critical spot there was a partially downed fence on Red and Blue that some relied on as a catching feature but didn't see it, whereas others said it was there. People seemed to use all the route choices Werner had envisioned, plus several more he had not, which means there was pretty good course design. Werner's only preference would have been to have a few more legs on each course with more technical control placements and route choices, but he had to balance that with minimization of climb and the openness of the available terrain.
Many others helped during the event with the myriad tasks to be performed, including Derek Maclean, Jeff Lanam, Steve Haas, Scott Aster, Sharon Evans, Dennis Wildfogel, George Minarik, Greg Ehrensing, Jay Hann, Daniel Sebo, Matej Sebo, Lubomir Sebo, Gavin Williams, Gregory Lee, Fillan Swift, Damian Swift, Rex Winterbottom, Bill Murphy, and Terry Gleason. Especially gratifying was seeing many young people pitching in to help. It is quite amazing how jobs magically get done by people spontaneously stepping up. It makes the job of event director easy. Seeing that the orchestration of the event was going well, I was able to take time to entertain guests. One Boy Scout exclaimed "This is the best day of my life!". Though he will have many other best days, it was pleasing to hear such feedback about the event. Good reason for others to consider directing an event.
Several people also helped behind the scenes, including Bob Cooley with the maps, Rosemary Johnson with epunch, Marina Keating with insurance, and Chuck Spalding with updates to the website.
Clay and Ernest won the White course, Kim Van Berkel won Yellow, Andrew Peterson won Orange, Steve Haas won Brown, Kent Ohlund won Green, Tapio Karras won Red, and François Léonard won Blue. The full results are below.
Lost and Found
A white handkerchief with a monogrammed “H†was left behind at the Joe Grant orienteering event. Contact if it might be yours.
Results
Joseph D. Grant County Park
San Jose, CA
Sunday, March 30, 2014
White Course Yellow Course Orange Course Brown Course Green Course Red Course Blue Course
Also see control-by-control timing in the WinSplits results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=29837).
You can see the event map with the actual routes traveled by participants, and draw your own route for comparison, in RouteGadget. (Use of RouteGadget is explained here. RouteGadget for this event is here (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=333).)
White Course (2.1 km, 90 m climb, 9 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Clay & Ernest 26:30
2 Connor Klaassen, Ryan Young,
Darien Liu 29:56
3 Philip & Collin 32:17
4 Eric & Stephen 32:54
5 Michael Tucker, Andrew Runke,
Andrew Lau 34:02
6 Mateo, Tony, Noah 34:22
7 Sophie Rivest 37:43
8 Troop 31 41:09
9 Viola Chin 42:22
10 Kate Tennant 42:49
11 Travis Kugler 46:20
12 Maggie Erez, Katie Wilson 51:02
13 Anna Sarsfield, Diane Hall 54:34
14 Abhinav & Ben 54:35
15 Everleigh & Beckett Porter 57:47
16 Prindiville family 58:28
17 Ethan & Sourya 1:00:52
18 Halliday family 1:00:57
19 Raam 1:10:18
20 Rohit & Ashof 1:10:34
21 Heather Weissel 1:16:10
Ethan Ma, Jacob Kiriakos DNF
Greg Kashperskiy DNF
Yellow Course (3.4 km, 150 m climb, 11 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Kim Van Berkel 41:18 2 Susan Want 52:03 3 Andrew Kim, Justin Lee 1:00:32 4 Aivo Karilovs 1:01:06 5 Harold DeMoss 1:04:28 6 Mariko Soto, Trevor Lofthouse 1:05:37 7 Maria Sophia Fedyk 1:06:00 8 Brian & Ryan H 1:21:41 9 Ben D & Tomo 1:23:52 10 Quarly Canant, Colin Sullivan 1:25:45 11 Francoise Foley-Fisher 1:26:12 12 Natalie & Jessica 1:29:04 13 Koch family 1:30:54 14 Paula White 1:39:16 15 Gurshoon & Tatsuya 1:42:09 16 Josh Bonner 1:55:09 17 Caleb Shirallie 1:56:47 18 Taylor and Weston Snyder 2:05:52 19 Jad Maluf 2:29:25 20 Jamie Maclean 2:34:32
Luke & Keenan DNF
Elisabet & Alain DNF
Benson family DNF
Orange Course (3.6 km, 180 m climb, 11 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Andrew Peterson 32:57 2 Fillan Swift 38:49 3 Gian Coolen 40:39 4 Andy Cretcher 40:55 5 Daniel Sebo 45:29 6 Elsa De Becker 58:05 7 William, Mark, & Rod 1:00:16 8 Kaizad & Timothy 1:00:31 9 Ryan & Ashwin 1:06:37 10 Christoph Hivert, Bria Nyberg 1:11:19 11 Louis Van Den Berg, Sergey K 1:11:20 12 Carolyn Takano, Rachel Silverstein 1:13:45 13 Andrew Killeen 1:21:12 14 Meg Gerstner 1:23:10 15 John Marold 1:27:02 16 Nigel Killeen 1:32:38 17 Masha Konkov (COOL) 1:37:29 18 Bill Murphy 1:39:54 19 Sara Wegner 1:42:26 20 Kalia Carter 1:42:35 21 Michelle, Dan, & Ben Conway 2:25:00 22 Carl Courtemanche 2:35:38
Ryan Spencer DNF
Second Course
Kim Van Berkel 41:30
Brown Course (3.0 km, 130 m climb, 10 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Steve Haas 39:23 2 Dan Greene 43:12 3 Janet Peterson 48:55 4 George Minarik 50:15 5 Ekaterina Orekhova, Michael Levin 51:08 6 Krists Krilovs 52:44 6 Alan Glendinning 52:44 8 Roy Want 52:49 9 Phillip Hoare 52:55 10 Scott Aster 54:25 11 Dace Krilova 55:36 12 Leslie Minarik 55:51 13 Terry Gleason 59:32 14 Tatiana Fedyk 1:01:09 15 Oleg Shakhnovsky 1:05:32 16 Olga Kraght 1:08:07 17 Julia Doubson 1:27:17 18 Brian Tennant, Ken Dillon 1:33:43 19 Shura Kretchetov 1:38:30 20 Pia Kamlan 2:08:34
Trevor Pering DNF
Green Course (4.9 km, 190 m climb, 14 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Kent Ohlund 1:03:56 2 Daniel Sheeter 1:09:48 3 Gary Kraght 1:15:47 4 Greg Ehrensing 1:17:26 5 Cornelia Coolen 1:20:36 6 Katie Petersen 1:21:39 7 Chuck Spalding 1:24:33 8 Dennis Wildfogel 1:24:36 9 Victor Frolov 1:26:56 10 Johanna Merriss 1:32:54 11 Christine Brew 1:38:24 12 Flynn Buxton-Walsh 1:41:40 13 Carl Williams 1:49:46 14 Marie-Josée Parayre 1:51:41 15 Matthias Kohler, Gerry Czamanske 1:52:39 16 Jay Hann 1:58:12 17 Fyodor Konkov 2:00:09 18 Judy & Tom Cronin 2:37:36 19 Briggs & Fritz 2:42:01
Stephanie Maclean DNF
Red Course (5.9 km, 240 m climb, 16 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Tapio Karras 1:09:10 2 Syd Reader 1:12:16 3 Gavin Williams 1:20:02 4 Graham Brew 1:33:54 5 Damian Swift 1:47:04 6 Luc Poppe 1:49:44 7 Theo Verhoeven 2:11:17 8 Marina Keating 2:20:27 9 Engovatov, Daniel 2:23:40 10 Frederick Lee 2:43:55 11 Arthur Kashperskiy 2:51:23
Deron van Hoff DNF
Blue Course (7.0 km, 310 m climb, 20 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 François Léonard 1:03:52 2 Dennis Wilkinson, Andrew Peterson 1:08:20 3 Takanori Arata 1:12:32 4 Matej Sebo 1:16:04 5 Zoltan Foley-Fisher 1:18:19 6 Rex Winterbottom 1:20:22 7 Greg Khanlarov 1:20:59 8 Lubomir Sebo 1:36:29 9 Penny DeMoss 1:36:39 10 Cedric Lasfargues 1:48:42 11 Joe Maffei 1:58:33
Andy Fulton DNF
Scott Sampson DNF
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)