Big Basin Redwoods State Park
Date: (Sun.) Sep. 17, 2017
Location: Boulder Creek, CA
Event Director: 
- 831.439.9822
Course Setter: Nick Corsano
Type: B; Full-featured event for beginners through advanced in a beautiful forest
Related Event Information
Event Announcement WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=51529) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=398)
Event Write-Up
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On a day where the weather was near perfect, over 200 participants came out and enjoyed the glorious redwoods of Big Basin, and the excellent courses set by Nick Corsano. The Advanced course participants were thrilled with the newly re-mapped section of the park. It was great to see the happy faces and hear the upbeat chatter of people who had finished their courses and were enjoying refreshments. This was one of the biggest turnouts for a Big Basin event, and I have Jeff Lanam and Rex Winterbottom to thank for their great advertising ideas.
Though deemed a successful event, it wasn't without a few hiccups: there was some miscommunication about how to get to the advanced Start. Even though it was streamered, I didn't provide a map to show where the Start was, and at first, was also directing people to take the wrong trail. I sincerely apologize for the confusion. We also had one misplaced control on the Yellow course. Fortunately, it was able to be found on the way to the next checkpoint, and everyone either found it or received credit for it.
Winners
We had quite a number of first timers come out to this event, and many of those went on to partake in second courses. Amelia Nugent placed first on the White course, then went on to place third on the Yellow course. Bryant Fong took second place on White, followed closely by Ida Tornqvist in third.
On Yellow, Linus Tornqvist took first place, with Gary Kraght in second place.
Kristian Marit Lyngbaek dominated the Orange course, with the team of Anastasia & Marc Kourankina taking second, and Paige Andaverde in third.
On the most popular course of the day, Brown, first-place honors go to Kyle Halliday, with Tommy Ingulfsen and Ann Marie Cody in second and third places, respectively.
Tobias Tornqvist placed first on the Green course, narrowly beating Steve Gregg (2nd), with Misha Kreshlovsky in a solid 3rd-place finish.
The Red course was won by Kim van Berkel, followed closely by Manfred Kopisch and Tac Sugiyama.
On Blue, Kevin Culberg took the gold, with Huon Wilson edging out Mark Prior for second place.
THANKS!
Of course, we wouldn't have had such a successful day without the help of many outstanding volunteers. Thank you for putting in the extra time, especially at such a technically difficult (read: exhausting) place to orienteer, not to mention the travel time. (My sincere apologies to anyone I overlooked)
- Big Basin Rangers Scott Sipes, Patrick Rosso, and Phil Bergman
- Nick Corsano!
- Esther Heller
- Dan Vannatter!
- Chuck Spalding
- Nancy Lindeman
- Steve Haas
- Sarah Williams
- Jeff Lanam
- Tony Pinkham
- Mark Blair
- Dan Greene
- Gary Kraght
- Werner Haag
- Steve Gregg
- Peter Graube
- Misha Kreshlovsky (he's never turned me down for a control-pickup request, even after completing a difficult advanced course!)
- Rex Winterbottom
- Scott Aster
- Ankitha Satyam
- Olga Kraght
- Bob Cooley
Cheers!
– Sharon
Results
Big Basin Redwoods State Park
Boulder Creek, CA
Sunday, September 17, 2017
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=51529).
You can see the event map with the actual routes traveled by participants, and draw your own route for comparison, in RouteGadget for this event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=398). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)
White Course (2.3 km, 30 m climb, 12 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Amelia Nugent 27:04
2 Bryant Fong BSA 28:41 +1:37
3 Ida Tornqvist BAOC 29:28 +2:24
4 Tatiana Fedyk 31:43 +4:39
5 Jessica Willey 36:31 +9:27
6 Benjamin Willey 38:36 +11:32
7 Mary Fairchild 44:52 +17:48
8 Maureen McCarthy 45:16 +18:12
9 Emmalie Tornqvist BAOC 46:37 +19:33
10 Brianne Ryan 55:57 +28:53
11 Caitlyn Deeble 59:00 +31:56
12 Beatrice Schreibstein BAOC 59:35 +32:31
13 Issac Chen 1:03:07 +36:03
14 Adrian Cimermancic 1:07:05 +40:01
15 Neil Tsai 1:10:17 +43:13
16 Rida & Jacob 1:12:27 +45:23
17 Halliday Family BAOC 1:20:45 +53:41
Adrienne Bowden DNF
Jim Willey DNF
Yellow Course (2.7 km, 160 m climb, 12 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Linus Tornqvist BAOC 43:59
2 Gary Kraght BAOC 48:45 +4:46
3 Amelia Nugent BAOC 53:04 +9:05 (2nd course)
4 Jamie Maclean BAOC 1:06:17 +22:18
5 Noa Holtzman BAOC 1:24:27 +40:28
6 Tatiana Fedyk 1:29:11 +45:12 (2nd course)
7 Chandru Vittal 1:39:47 +55:48
8 Caitlyn Deeble 1:43:40 +59:41 (2nd course)
9 Judy Howell 1:49:22 +65:23
10 Alexey Dodonov 1:51:50 +67:51
11 Team Willey 1:53:13 +69:14
12 John Graves 2:03:32 +79:33
13 Ivar, Boris, Oleg 2:06:02 +82:03
14 Tim & Roxanne Edwards 2:08:16 +84:17
15 Adela Calderon NJROTC 2:08:41 +84:42
16 Sarah Howard NJROTC 2:15:21 +91:22
17 Miguel Cisneros NJROTC 2:17:11 +93:12
Brad, Alex, & Kylie Wetmore BAOC DNF
Issac Chan DNF (2nd course)
Marina Kahl DNF
Matthew Delacruz NJROTC DNF
Neil Tsai DNF (2nd course)
Seth Boice NJROTC DNF
Orange Course (4.4 km, 255 m climb, 19 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Kristian Marit Lyngbaek 1:14:13
2 Anastasia & Marc Kourakina BAOC 1:27:16 +13:03
3 Paige Andaverde NJROTC 1:34:17 +20:04
4 Peter Erwin 1:34:20 +20:07
5 Mark Cruz NJROTC 1:39:41 +25:28
6 Nathan Booth 1:40:27 +26:14
7 Gavin Plume 1:53:49 +39:36
8 George Jemmott BAOC 1:53:59 +39:46
9 Sierra Cirimelli-Low BAOC 1:57:42 +43:29
10 Jamie Max Amanda 1:59:57 +45:44
11 Joshua Avery Berkeley High 2:05:36 +51:23
12 Igor Nekrestynov 2:32:33 +78:20
13 Bespamyatnov 2:35:58 +81:45
14 Alex Nisevich 2:37:17 +83:04
15 Michael Dueweke 2:38:37 +84:24
16 Nicholas Roussos 2:42:20 +88:07
17 Eric & Richard Kos 2:50:52 +96:39
18 Bill Murphy BAOC 3:02:24 +108:11
19 Basavaraj 3:07:28 +113:15
20 John & Cassie 3:07:58 +113:45
August Melo NJROTC DNF
Corrine Alicea NJROTC DNF
Dylan & Mat Meer DNF
Elio & Joshua DNF
Ethan Boehm DNF
Jonathan Kumar, Carlos Gomez NJROTC DNF
Omar Calderon, Zaul Molina NJROTC DNF
Pradeep Sam DNF
Roman & Natalia Vasiliva DNF
Sky Team (5) DNF
Tessa Plume DNF
Brown Course (3.4 km, 215 m climb, 14 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Kyle Halliday BAOC 47:50
2 Tommy Ingulfsen BAOC 49:19 +1:29
3 Ann Marie Cody BAOC 49:29 +1:39
4 Dennis Wildfogel BAOC 54:10 +6:20
5 Steve Haas BAOC 57:59 +10:09
6 Stan Barrett BAOC 1:01:18 +13:28 (estimated time; no Start punch)
7 Stephanie Maclean BAOC 1:04:20 +16:30
8 Parker Higgins NJROTC 1:11:36 +23:46
9 Carl & David Williams BAOC 1:13:00 +25:10
10 George Minarik BAOC 1:16:47 +28:57
11 Chuck Spalding BAOC 1:17:58 +30:08
12 Joe Tarnow BAOC 1:22:12 +34:22
13 Seth Lopez NJROTC 1:24:15 +36:25
14 Denis Kourakin BAOC 1:24:20 +36:30
15 Dan Greene BAOC 1:25:47 +37:57
16 Sarah Minarik BAOC 1:28:58 +41:08
17 Andy Cretcher 1:32:54 +45:04
18 Johanna Merriss BAOC 1:34:15 +46:25
19 Alan Glendinning BAOC 1:34:54 +47:04
20 Evan Custer BAOC 1:35:55 +48:05
21 Scott Aster BAOC 1:38:30 +50:40
22 Olga Kraght BAOC 1:39:21 +51:31
23 Mark Blair BAOC 1:42:17 +54:27
24 Bob Cooley BAOC 1:44:25 +56:35
25 Maekinzie Mauck NJROTC 1:46:46 +58:56
26 Ramandeep Singh NJROTC 1:50:01 +62:11
27 Dotan Knaan 1:51:44 +63:54
28 Ken Considine BAOC 1:54:33 +66:43
Jeff Lanam BAOC DNF
Nancy Lindeman BAOC DNF
Troy Kaji BAOC DNF
Green Course (4.1 km, 405 m climb, 19 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Tobias Tornqvist BAOC 1:24:25
2 Steve Gregg BAOC 1:25:58 +1:33
3 Misha Kreshlovsky BAOC 1:34:12 +9:47
4 Van Boughner BAOC 1:36:23 +11:58
5 Daniel Å ebo BAOC 1:40:13 +15:48
6 Kent Ohlund BAOC 1:41:16 +16:51
7 Derek Maclean BAOC 1:42:07 +17:42
8 Jeffrey Kabel BAOC 1:45:03 +20:38
9 Cian Ryan 2:17:42 +53:17
10 Marie-Josée Parayre BAOC 2:23:45 +59:20
11 Ethier BAOC 2:31:41 +67:16
12 Scott Sampson BAOC 2:57:30 +93:05
Noiret Family DNF
Tony Pinkham BAOC DSQ (course vetter)
Red Course (4.3 km, 495 m climb, 19 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Kim van Berkel BAOC 1:29:04
2 Manfred Kopisch BAOC 1:31:18 +2:14
3 Tac Sugiyama BAOC 1:31:53 +2:49
4 Thorsten Achterkirchen 1:48:11 +19:07
5 Amale & Michael Ertmann 2:01:34 +32:30
6 Nikolay Chukanov BAOC 2:02:50 +33:46
7 Theo Verhoeven BAOC 2:58:06 +89:02
8 Marina Keating BAOC 4:01:48 +152:44
Blue Course (5.0 km, 540 m climb, 21 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Kevin Culberg BAOC 1:24:28
2 Huon Wilson BAOC 1:31:26 +6:58
3 Mark Prior BAOC 1:32:25 +7:57
4 Riley Culberg BAOC 1:38:01 +13:33
5 Matej Å ebo BAOC 1:41:10 +16:42
6 Mattias Vangbo BAOC 1:49:13 +24:45
7 Aron Walker BAOC 1:53:16 +28:48
8 Rex Winterbottom BAOC 2:23:56 +59:28
9 Daniel Engovatov 3:13:59 +109:31
Eric Rosenzweig BAOC DNF
Greg Favor BAOC DNF
Julia Wagner BAOC DNF
Peter Graube BAOC DNF
Tom Proulx DNF
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
DSQ = Disqualified (violated a rule)