Indian Valley College
Date: (Sun.) May. 11, 2025
Location: Novato, CA
Event Director: 
- 415.895.6039
Course Setter: Petra Sundstrom
Type: B; We return once again to the verdant hills around the Indian Valley College campus. There will be 6 standard courses (White through Red; no Blue), with free introductory instruction for beginners, who are very welcome, as are non-members.
Related Event Information
WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=104694) Attackpoint Results (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_58986) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=560) Event Announcement
Event Write-Up
, Event Director
About 120 participants came out to the Indian Valley Campus in Novato on Mother's Day to orienteer around the campus and surrounding hillsides. The weather was beautiful, if windy, and so were the wildflowers. Petra Sundstrom designed courses with a novel twist — the orienteering started out climbing the hillsides, and culminated with a short Sprint course through the campus. Although there was no Blue course, the Green and Red courses had significant climb, resulting in some very good views for those orienteers who chose to appreciate them.
An event like Indian Valley cannot happen without the support of many volunteers.
- Our course setter, Petra Sundstrom, came up with the concept, and then spent countless hours in course design, vetting, and wrestling with using Condes (course creation software) on a Mac.
- The volunteer honor roll is:
- Setup: Recinda Sherman, Johanna Merriss, Olga Kraght
- Registration: Sarah Williams, Steve Haas, Dennis Wildfogel, Chuck Spalding
- Epunch: Jeff Lanam, Rosemary Johnson
- Beginner Clinics: Sheila Cotter
- Starts: Recinda Sherman, Rex Winterbottom, Scott Aster
- Control Pickup: Steve Gregg, Tac Sugiyama, Petra Sundstrom, Scott Aster, Olga Kraght
- College of Marin liaison: Sarah Paoli (Thanks, Sarah!)
- BAOC website support: Chuck Spalding
One final note: Although there were many happy and satisfied orienteers after the event, it was also clear that a Silver course would have been well received. We have been having Silver courses at more BAOC events. It would be prudent if all future BAOC events with a standard classic format in typical hilly BAOC terrain provide a Silver course for orienteers with advanced skills but who are older, injured, or less physically fit.
Lost & Found
A Camelbak water bottle was left behind at Indian Valley. If it is yours, please , and I will arrange to return it to you.
Results
Indian Valley College
Novato, CA
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Course: White Yellow Orange Brown Green Red
Also see control-by-control timing in the WinSplits results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=104694) and on Attackpoint (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_58986).
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=560). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)
- In RouteGadget, you can enter your route manually or upload a GPS recording and adjust to fit our map. The following tips apply to the GPS method.
- RouteGadget Tip #1: After selecting your GPX file, make sure to adjust the time offset between starting your watch at the Start line and leaving the Start Triangle. The offset can have a significant impact on your route accuracy. For most local events, the offset should be set to 0 as we start from the triangle (assuming you started your watch exactly when you started).
- RouteGadget Tip #2: After uploading your GPS track to RouteGadget, you can create additional blue adjustment points by right-clicking your track. You can use these points to better align your route with the map, for example, along trails. You can delete extra adjustment points by right-clicking them.
Thanks to Gary Kraght and Petra Sundstrom for a great event on a blustery day!
We had a lot of beginners turn out, as well as a solid crew of regulars, and many people helped. The results are below.
I want to make one note: Somehow two White classes and two White courses were created in the system, one with the last control number 39, and one without. As a result, some people who missed number 39 got a splits printout that showed them with an "OK" result. I've merged the two classes to get the accurate standings.
– Jeff Lanam, E-punch Director
Please tell Jeff Lanam () and the webmasters () if anything needs to be changed.
White Course (2.2 km, 40 m climb, 9 controls)
Time
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind Lost
1 Yana Konovalenko BAOC 27:10 1:53
2 Atle Sundstrom BAOC 27:45 0:35 3:53
3 Cecelia Roome 29:03 1:53 4:11
4 The Hedgehog BAOC 32:35 5:25 10:32
5 Deb & CC 36:26 9:16 5:21
6 Yinbergs BAOC 46:01 18:51 9:30
7 Nova Bergstrom BAOC 51:51 24:41 7:39
8 Mila Bergstrom BAOC 51:53 24:43 7:03
9 Amelia Schneider 52:06 24:56 7:36
10 Eliana 1:11:33 44:23 18:59
11 SPT4 BAOC 1:19:01 51:51 19:07
Harlan DNF
Harry Richardson BAOC DNF
The Allen Wrenches DNF
Yellow Course (3.2 km, 125 m climb, 11 controls)
Time
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind Lost
1 Tanya Yatsunenko 43:56 3:56
2 Matteo Guareschi 44:31 0:35 14:09
3 Nils Widerstrom BAOC 1:02:15 18:19 18:13
4 Beatrice Schreibstein OCIN 1:05:16 21:20 10:31
5 The Cats BAOC 1:07:07 23:11 5:40
6 Emily Suitt-Payne CHSOC 1:15:52 31:56 23:32
7 Piper Jensick CHSOC 1:15:53 31:57 23:34
8 Isabella Pantoja CHSOC 1:15:57 32:01 25:35
9 Milo's group BAOC 1:27:25 43:29 17:08
10 John Blakkan 1:41:40 57:44 42:37
11 Heather Latham, Jennifer Chester 1:44:23 60:27 32:31
Mary Ann Pedron DNF
Megalee Supergroup DNF
Orange Course (4.0 km, 165 m climb, 14 controls)
Time
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind Lost
1 Tanya Yatsunenko BAOC 1:06:42 6:25
2 David & Sophia BAOC 1:15:33 8:51 12:04
3 Marie De Vre BAOC 1:28:35 21:53 13:54
4 The Hedgehogs BAOC 1:37:30 30:48 8:50
5 Jan & Aswin & Varun 1:40:44 34:02 25:12
6 Zach & Sanjana 1:48:13 41:31 35:26
7 Piper Jensick CHSOC 1:53:46 47:04 36:01
8 Chloe Suitt-Payne CHSOC 1:53:55 47:13 35:57
9 Oh Shoot 1:56:33 49:51 14:51
10 Julie van Hoff BAOC 2:03:58 57:16 32:06
11 Steve O'Keefe 2:04:22 57:40 22:38
12 Rory DeNiro 3:04:48 118:06 55:23
Darwin DeNiro DNF
Brown Course (4.0 km, 160 m climb, 17 controls)
Time
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind Lost
1 François Léonard BAOC 55:13 0:33
2 Rex Winterbottom BAOC 55:50 0:37 1:09
3 Rahel Schneider BAOC 1:02:13 7:00 0:55
4 Chuck Spalding BAOC 1:11:40 16:27 7:27
5 Sheila Cotter BAOC 1:25:31 30:18 6:39
6 Dennis Wildfogel BAOC 1:25:53 30:40 7:32
7 Johanna Merriss BAOC 1:31:13 36:00 14:15
8 Siqing Yi BAOC 1:33:32 38:19 16:27
9 Steve Haas BAOC 1:34:12 38:59 14:38
10 Olga Boiarynova BAOC 1:42:06 46:53 28:13
11 Matteo Guareschi 1:43:46 48:33 34:15
12 George Minarik BAOC 1:48:26 53:13 14:09
13 Xu Jinwen BAOC 1:54:47 59:34 41:40
14 Michael Robinson BAOC 2:05:18 70:05 41:23
15 Bobcat BAOC 2:45:35 110:22 71:57
16 Recinda Sherman LAOC 2:47:45 112:32 53:20
IM BAOC DNF
Jeff Lanam BAOC DNF
Phillip Hoare NAVX DNF
Rosemary Johnson BAOC DNF
Scott Astor BAOC DNF
Tom & Judy Cronin DNF
Green Course (5.0 km, 305 m climb, 18 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Paul Roome 56:25 0:41
2 Tapio Karras BAOC 1:11:11 14:46 2:32
3 Steve Gregg BAOC 1:16:08 19:43 1:32
4 Tac Sugiyama BAOC 1:16:55 20:30 3:32
5 Marie-Josée Parayre BAOC 1:29:48 33:23 5:15
6 Theo Verhoeven BAOC 1:47:04 50:39 17:36
7 Stan Barrett BAOC 1:54:01 57:36 34:08
8 Matthias Kohler BAOC 1:56:07 59:42 18:59
9 Jerry Skirvin BAOC 1:56:46 60:21 27:04
10 Sean Robinson BAOC 1:57:45 61:20 32:17
11 Ray Rosenbaum BAOC 2:09:50 73:25 26:58
12 Josh Munic BAOC 2:22:27 86:02 48:58
Eric Rosenzweig BAOC DNF
Red Course (6.3 km, 405 m climb, 23 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Yurii Konovalenko BAOC 1:12:31 0:43
2 Olaf Sundstrom BAOC 1:12:44 0:13 2:23
3 Vladimir Gusiatnikov OCIN 1:19:27 6:56 1:00
4 Evgeny Kachanovsky BAOC 1:24:49 12:18 5:30
5 Ouri Karni BAOC 1:26:16 13:45 8:52
6 Fanny Jacobson BAOC 1:30:54 18:23 9:37
7 Daria Titkina BAOC 1:32:52 20:21 5:00
8 Graham Brew BAOC 1:33:32 21:01 14:49
9 Mattias Vango BAOC 1:37:38 25:07 13:16
10 Tom De Vre BAOC 1:43:38 31:07 11:04
11 Emily Ellsworth BAOC 1:43:46 31:15 14:01
12 Nikolay Chukanov BAOC 1:44:43 32:12 19:22
13 John Richardson BAOC 1:46:49 34:18 15:41
14 Weichun Fong BAOC 1:47:11 34:40 18:53
15 Deron van Hoff BAOC 2:01:32 49:01 20:55
16 Kat Lan BAOC 2:12:54 60:23 24:18
17 Patrick Karion BAOC 2:19:06 66:35 30:02
18 Neva Mellow CHSOC 3:21:54 129:23 33:06
Marek Moravec LPU DNF
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DNF = Did not finish (one or more controls missed)