Shell Ridge Open Space
Date: (Sat.) Dec. 11, 2021
Location: Walnut Creek, CA
Event Director: 
Course Setter: Martin Kunz
Type: B; Standard 7-course event for beginners through advanced
Related Event Information
Event Announcement WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=79058) Attackpoint Results (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_52165) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=493)
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Event Write-Up
By , Event Director
Thank you all of you for a wonderful event at the Shell Ridge park!
It was supposed to be held in April of 2019, but unfortunately was canceled due to COVID-19. Happily it was recovered two years later in December 2021. The timing for the event was perfect, and we had it on such a sunny, windless day—only one day before storms arrived.
The event gathered almost 200 people! Hurray to all the participants! I do believe that all of them had a wonderful experience.
I want to thank all the volunteers who helped this event to happen.
First I want to thank Martin Kunz. The one who did the hard work of the event—designed marvelous courses, spent a tremendous amount of time doing fieldwork, and helped me with many organizational questions.
Big, big, big thanks to Daniel Ingram for bringing a lot of students! (I can’t imagine how one can motivate young people to wake up at 3 AM, make a multi-hour drive to run all these big climbs.) And for taking all care for other youth groups, for providing beginners clinics, and last, but not least, for helping with all the insurance quizzes for the event.
Many thanks to Dan Bylin, the Shell Ridge park ranger, for being supportive to orienteering, issuing the park permits, and visiting us during the event. Dan is retiring soon, and from the whole club, I wish him to stay healthy and have a lot of wonderful upcoming days.
Thanks to Sarah Williams for taking care of registration and helping me with the email updates, Jeffery Lanam for servicing E-punch, Chuck Spalding for running the event’s webpage, Tapio Karras for the RouteGadget, Bob Cooley for map printing, Shell Ridge Elementary School custodial staff for allowing up to use the school restrooms, Jay Hann for help with equipment, Jeffrey Goodwin for starting all this out. Many thanks to course setters and pick uppers—I'm not sure I know all you guys by names (sorry for that)—I’ll put ones that I memorized: Rex Winterbottom, Taylor Pospisil, and Piotr Pisarchyk.
My apologies to all who helped, but I did not mention.
I had a lot of fun working with all of you, and learning how the events are organized here.
Nit. There was a little issue with checkpoint #42. It was misplaced about 20 meters, and was not well seen from the right place. The organizational committee believes this did not influence the participants’ joy of the courses. 😉
See you all on the trails of orienteering!
Results
Shell Ridge Open Space
Walnut Creek, CA
Saturday, December 11, 2021
Results: 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=79058) and the Attackpoint results (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_52165).
- 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=493). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)
- Please tell if anything needs to be changed.
White Course (1.5 km, 55 m climb, 8 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Team 226 Troop 226 14:27
2 Ben & Sam BAOC 15:18 0:51
3 Team Ninja Penguins Troop 484 15:31 1:04
4 Team Fierce Foxes Troop 484 16:32 2:05
5 Team Pink Pandas Troop 484 16:40 2:13
6 Awesome ASM Troop 126 20:53 6:26
7 Madeleine Loh,
Fletcher Stump Smith 22:34 8:07
8 Ice Dragons Troop 126 22:53 8:26
9 Ken Zheng Troop 484 23:06 8:39
10 Halliday family BAOC 23:13 8:46
11 Mota-Merc 24:06 9:39
12 Zoe & Claire Annie BAOC 24:17 9:50
13 Jason Ruhl Troop 484 27:19 12:52
14 Duane James Troop 484 29:11 14:44
15 Flaming Dragons Troop 126 30:43 16:16
16 Team Shell Ridge Seekers Troop 226 30:56 16:29
17 Theo Charley Pack 453 33:37 19:10
18 Gwendolyn Moy 35:39 21:12
19 Caroline Paul 38:14 23:47
20 Julian Conradi BAOC 38:45 24:18
21 Christian Sommer Pack 453 50:58 36:31
22 Ismael & Grant Mendoza 55:29 41:02
23 Julie Peck Pack 453 1:01:33 47:06
24 Tom Shaffer Troop 226 1:02:25 47:58
25 Emmett Johnson Pack 453 1:02:27 48:00
26 The Marinators 1:13:45 59:18
27 Jenny Zheng BAOC 1:30:24 75:57
Camille Fassett,
Henry De Valence MSP
Brown family DNF
Preet Kahlon Pack 453 DNF
Kevin Mului DNS
Mirjana Spasojevic DNS
Yellow Course (3.1 km, 100 m climb, 10 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Dylan Perez-Sanchez BAOCYCHS 28:12
2 Jacqueline Schwartman 29:03 0:51
3 Lucas & Thomas 30:13 2:01
4 Kenneth Brown 32:43 4:31
5 Marcello Montinez Turlock NJROTC 37:16 9:04
6 Team 226 Troop 226 38:29 10:17
7 Camille & Henry BAOC 38:55 10:43 (2nd course)
8 Alanna Montinez Turlock NJROTC 39:13 11:01
9 DaCotah Reeder BAOCYCHS 39:40 11:28
10 Adomas Stankus BAOCYCHS 40:34 12:22
11 Hurrey Ups 42:54 14:42
12 Tessa Payan BAOCYCHS 43:44 15:32
13 Sophia Simcox 47:33 19:21
14 Scott Simcox 48:37 20:25
15 Madeleine Loh,
Fletcher Stump Smith 48:39 20:27 (2nd course)
16 Jason Ruhl Troop 484 49:31 21:19 (2nd course)
17 Edith Jacoby BAOC 49:33 21:21
18 Andre Montinez Turlock NJROTC 51:58 23:46
19 Rayner Malasaga BAOCYCHS 54:13 26:01
20 Ying Tuo BAOC 54:33 26:21
21 Landon Elliott Turlock NJROTC 55:51 27:39
22 Hardcastle-Ross BAOC 56:20 28:08
23 Owen Hunt BAOCYCHS 56:39 28:27
24 Josef Estrada BAOCYCHS 59:04 30:52
25 Ninja Penguins Troop 484 59:48 31:36 (2nd course)
26 Pink Pandas Troop 484 59:53 31:41
27 Katherine Ruhl Troop 484 1:00:21 32:09
28 Lola 1:02:49 34:37
29 William Barbagallo Fairfield JROTC 1:03:17 35:05
30 Ken Zheng Troop 484 1:03:45 35:33 (2nd course)
31 Ryah Newton BAOCYCHS 1:05:00 36:48
32 Peyton St Andrew Turlock NJROTC 1:05:19 37:07
33 Hui & Shi 1:10:39 42:27
34 Naina Makker 1:12:41 44:29
35 Christina Teply BAOC 1:28:05 59:53
Da-Jacqs DNF
John Barbagallo Turlock NJROTC DNF
Monica Voelm DNF
Rachel Halliday BAOC DNF
Orange Course (4.6 km, 290 m climb, 9 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Drew Taplin 52:09
2 Greg Moy 54:47 2:38
3 Zander Rosenzweig BAOC 56:36 4:27
4 Sam Barker BAOCYCHS 1:00:45 8:36
5 Thomas Leonard 1:09:34 17:25
6 Connor Rogers BAOCYCHS 1:10:36 18:27
7 Jaden Harckson Turlock NJROTC 1:12:45 20:36
8 Joshua Doddridge BAOCYCHS 1:13:31 21:22
9 Edgar Rojas Turlock NJROTC 1:14:32 22:23
10 Enrique Espinoza Ayala BAOCYCHS 1:21:37 29:28
11 Isaac Moseli Turlock NJROTC 1:23:37 31:28
12 Jonathan Harris 1:24:23 32:14
13 Fred Loebl BAOC 1:25:00 32:51
14 Luke Hansen Turlock NJROTC 1:28:33 36:24
15 Hayden Elliott Turlock NJROTC 1:28:42 36:33
16 Amalia & Shura BAOC 1:30:28 38:19
17 Gabriella Sanchez Turlock NJROTC 1:36:14 44:05
18 Diy Ang BAOC 1:39:52 47:43
19 Landon Elliott Turlock NJROTC 1:42:39 50:30 (2nd course)
20 Marcello Montinez Turlock NJROTC 1:43:29 51:20 (2nd course)
21 Andre Montinez Turlock NJROTC 1:43:46 51:37 (2nd course)
22 Alanna Montinez Turlock NJROTC 1:44:30 52:21 (2nd course)
23 John Marold BAOC 1:50:22 58:13
24 Miroslav Trubelja 1:51:26 59:17
25 Mary Udey BAOCYCHS 1:51:31 59:22
26 Lucas Santiago Turlock NJROTC 1:51:33 59:24
26 Rhonda Stieber 1:51:33 59:24
28 Madeleine Loh,
Fletcher Stump Smith 1:54:31 62:22 (3rd course)
29 Ada Krechetov BAOC 1:56:01 63:52
30 Sophia Higgins Turlock NJROTC 1:57:48 65:39
31 Zachary White Turlock NJROTC 2:53:33 121:24
Alex van Hoff BAOC DNF
Audrey Harker DNF
SRC DNF
Shantel BAOC DNF
Kevin Mului DNS
Roopa McNealis DNS
Brown Course (3.4 km, 165 m climb, 10 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Dennis Wildfogel BAOC 48:16
2 Penny DeMoss BAOC 48:54 0:38
3 Chuck Spalding BAOC 51:50 3:34
4 Stephen Haas BAOC 53:14 4:58
5 Lauren Knight BAOC 57:46 9:30
6 Shura Krechetov BAOC 1:01:04 12:48
7 Katie Petersen BAOC 1:03:16 15:00
8 Irena & Nick Stefanova BAOC 1:05:41 17:25
9 George Minarik BAOC 1:08:46 20:30
10 Johanna Merriss BAOC 1:09:08 20:52
11 Max Clemo 1:10:09 21:53
12 Ling 1:12:28 24:12
13 Russell Green BAOC 1:18:31 30:15
14 Janet Petersen BAOC 1:22:21 34:05
15 Simona Platukyte 1:27:30 39:14
16 Evan Custer BAOC 1:32:39 44:23
17 Drew Provinse Troop 226 1:50:15 61:59
18 Rosemary Johnson BAOC 1:54:46 66:30
19 The Climbers 1:58:16 70:00
Sarah Williams BAOC DNF
Jeff Lanam BAOC DNS
Scott Butckovitz DNS
Steve Beuerman BAOC DNS
Green Course (5.4 km, 380 m climb, 9 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Tapio Karras BAOC 1:06:54
2 Misha Kreslavsky BAOC 1:11:44 4:50
3 Steve Gregg BAOC 1:13:12 6:18
4 Stan Barrett BAOC 1:23:30 16:36
5 Taylor Pospisil BAOC 1:24:47 17:53
6 Michael Behrens BAOC 1:25:50 18:56
7 Stephanie Maclean BAOC 1:39:58 33:04
8 John Richardson BAOC 1:41:03 34:09
9 Sheila Cotter BAOC 1:42:56 36:02
10 Travis Navarro BAOCYCHS 1:45:35 38:41
11 Marie-Josée Parayre BAOC 1:46:33 39:39
12 Ray Rosenbaum BAOC 1:47:29 40:35
13 Dan Ingram BAOCYCHS 1:58:32 51:38
14 Carl Williams BAOC 2:05:25 58:31
15 Vikram Chahal BAOCYCHS 2:22:16 75:22
16 Olga Kraght BAOC 2:24:14 77:20
17 Amy Winston RMOC 2:47:41 100:47
Brad Jacobs DNF
Chun DNF
Red Course (7.2 km, 505 m climb, 15 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 François Léonard BAOC 1:09:08
2 Jeffrey Goodwin BAOC 1:16:15 7:07
3 Mikkel Conradi BAOC 1:21:39 12:31
4 Kevin Culberg BAOC 1:30:34 21:26
5 Deron van Hoff BAOC 1:39:13 30:05
6 Theo Verhoeven BAOC 1:46:39 37:31
7 Graham Brew BAOC 1:48:28 39:20
8 Mark Petersen BAOC 1:54:36 45:28
9 Nik Weber GCO 2:15:07 65:59
10 Scott Sampson BAOC 2:20:15 71:07
Siargey Pisarchyk BAOC NC
Blue Course (10.1 km, 625 m climb, 22 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind
1 Riley Culberg BAOC 1:47:22
2 Greg Khanlarov BAOC 1:54:54 7:32
3 Kyle Halliday BAOC 1:58:56 11:34
4 Daniel Å ebo BAOC 2:01:35 14:13
5 Gavin Williams BAOC 2:13:21 25:59
6 Ouri Karni Technion-Carmel 2:15:10 27:48
7 Lubomir Å ebo BAOC 2:15:56 28:34
8 Jeffrey Kabel BAOC 2:39:04 51:42
9 Rex Winterbottom BAOC 3:05:38 78:16
Gavin Wyatt-Mair BAOC DNF
John Crowther RMOC DNF
Manfred Kopisch BAOC DNS
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
DNS = Did not start
MSP = Mispunched (one or more controls wrong)
NC = Not Competing (Event Director)