Sierra 2000 O-Fest

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Team Sierra

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The Sierra 2000 O-Fest was very successful, in large part due to the enormous amount of work done by volunteers. It certainly would not have been possible to pull off this 9-day event were it not for the help of so many club members.

I would like to acknowledge several very important people. Most of all, this event would not have occurred if it were not for the tireless work of Bob Cooley. He spearheaded the mapping program of both Northstar and Burton Creek. In addition, he vetted all of the courses at the two Spooner events and the three A meets held at Northstar and Burton Creek. He designed the white and yellow courses of the second day of the Pacific Region Championships. He helped place the controls and water at Northstar and Burton Creek. In addition, he printed up all of the maps (approximately 3000 of them) and the clue sheets. He provided the printers and power supply for the electronic punching equipment. Basically, he worked nonstop on this event for months, and in the last few weeks, barely got time to get any sleep. Thanks, Bob. You did a heroic effort.

I also want to thank the course designers. Kent Ohlund designed the first day of the Pacific Region Championships, and Joe Scarborough designed the second day intermediate and advanced courses. George Kirkov designed the courses at Northstar. In addition, George did all of the mapping and cartography of these two venues, helped place the controls, water, and EP units at the Spooner, Northstar, and Burton Creek events. He also did vetting of the Spooner and Burton Creek events. Steve Gregg designed, mapped and directed the Mountain Bike-O, and Karen Dennis and David Irving organized, mapped, and designed the very successful Trail-O event and workshops.

George Minarik did a fantastic job of organizing the convention. He lined up the workshop speakers and skill session leaders, worked closely with the Northstar group sales person for arrangements at Northstar, designed and set the practice sessions at Northstar and the 4th Dimension event. Leslie Minarik also deserves a lot of appreciation for designing and organizing the Vampire-O, and helping in multiple other ways.

Steve Beuerman did a fantastic job as registrar and housing coordinator. He had to design and maintain a complex database for entries into 7 different events, handle T-shirt, dinner, lift ticket, and SportIdent electronic punch card sales and rentals. He also handled all of the Northstar housing accommodations.

Ev and Jean Beuerman did their usual fabulous job of handling registration for the Spooner Warm-up B meet and Relay, the Mountain Bike-O, the Trail-O, and the recreational events at the A-meets.

I want to thank Dennis Wildfogel for being in charge of recruiting the crew chiefs. This was an enormous help, and his subtle and not-so-subtle techniques produced a great crew chief team. Among the crew chiefs, I want to thank Dan Greene, who did a great job managing two start venues with the complexities of the new SportIdent system and multiple people changing courses. We added a construction crew this year and this turned out to be very helpful. Ron Gross led his team of GCO members in providing this very valuable chore. Also, I especially want to thank Kelly Wells for organizing the control pick-up team. This is the job that every event director likes to see filled, and Kelly and his team did a fabulous job.

Abby Wolfe did a tremendous job of posting information on the web about the event. There was an enormous amount of information that was on the web page, and I think most participants found out what was happening through that medium. Also, Robert Lewis did a marvelous job of preparing the very professional program.

Finally, I want to thank my wife, Jill Custer, who tolerates my obsession with good humor and tremendous support. This event took a lot of time, and most of it came out of her share.

Here is the listing of people who helped at the event. I am sure I must have missed some people, and for that I apologize.

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Team Sierra

USOF Convention

Director: George Minarik

Crew: Leslie Minarik, Sarah Minarik, Dan Greene, Ev & Jean Beuerman, 
	Wyatt Riley, Dennis Wildfogel, Anneliese Steuben

Sawmill Flat A-meet

Event director: Rosemary Johnson	      
Course setter: George Kirkov
Vetter: Bob Cooley

Burton Creek A-meet (Pacific Region Champs)

Event director: Evan Custer
Course setter, Day 1: Kent Ohlund
Course setter, Day 2: Joe Scarborough
Vetters: Bob Cooley, George Kirkov

Spooner Lake B-meet and Relay

Event director: Ron Gross
Course setter: Evan Custer
Vetter: Bob Cooley
	
Mountain Bike-O

Event director: Steve Gregg
Course setter: Steve Gregg

Crew: Gary Carpenter, Chuck Spalding, Kelly Wells, Abby Wolfe 

Trail-O

Event directors: Karen Dennis, David Irving  
Course setters: Karen Dennis, David Irving

Vampire-O

Event directors: George & Leslie Minarik
Chief vampire: John "The Impaler" Bartholomew

Crew: Ev & Jean Beuerman, Jill Custer 

O-Fest Crew

Registrar (A-meets) and housing coordinator: Steve Beuerman
Mapping director: Bob Cooley

Registration: Ev & Jean Beuerman (chiefs), George & Pat Aster, Esther Heller, 
	Marsha Jacobs, Nancy Lindeman

Mapping field work and cartography: George Kirkov, Bob Cooley, Steve Gregg, 
	Karen Dennis, David Irving

Start: Dan Greene (chief), Bruce Bassett, Melissa Criqui, Nick Corsano, Jill Custer, 
	Michael Fleishman, Peter Graube, Steve Gregg, Panu Haaramo, Hannu Haarma, 
	Peter Heywood, Steve Jankowski, Tapio Karras, Matthias Kohler, 
	Stephanie Martineau, Anu Perasolo, Wyatt Riley, Chuck Spalding

Finish: Thorsten Graeve (chief), Patty Clemo, Dwight Freund, Meg Gerstner, 
	Alan Glendinning, Olivia Graeve, Tony Pinkham, Mike Poulsen, Abby Wolfe 

Results and e-punching: Jeff Lanam (chief), Evan Custer, 
	Stew Hintz, Robert Lewis, Graeme & Jane Ackland, Bruce Bassett, Bob Cooley, 
	Jill Custer, Cheryl Madsen, Jeff Osborne, Rich Parker, Doug Stein, Jason Tong, 
	Nik Weber, Catherine Yekenevicz
	
Control pickup: Kelly Wells (chief), Gary Carpenter, Bob Cooley, Harold & Penny DeMoss, 
	Dean French, Steve Gregg, Nancy Lindeman, Tony Pinkham, Mike Poulsen, Syd Reader, 
	Joan Roos, Christine Shirley, Jason Tong, Nik Weber, Gavin Wyatt-Mair 

Construction: Ron Gross (chief), Jennifer Kerr, Stew Hintz, Pete Olsten,  
	Ellie Lightfoot, Joe Ledesman, Ed Quartemont, Dwight Freund, Tony Pinkham

Junior camp: Gary Kraght, Rick Worner, Jeff Saeger, Miki & Peter Snell       
Equipment and signage: Mark Blair (chief), Harold & Penny DeMoss, Matthias Kohler
Beginner's clinics: Bill Papendick (chief), Judy Koehler, Vic Revenko
Start-O: Louise Madrid, Rachel Care
Camping hostess: Nancy Lindeman
Dinner: Ian Tidswell
Child-care coordinator: Stephanie Maclean
Crew chief recruiter: Dennis Wildfogel
Start time assignments: Wyatt Riley
"Orienteer at Home" tournament: Dennis Wildfogel
First aid: Joan Roos, Karen Sessler
Search & rescue: Tom Strat
Clothing return: Syd Reader
Map preparation: Bob Cooley, Patti Clemo
Packet preparation and distribution: Steve Beuerman, Ev and Jean Beuerman, 
	Marsha Jacobs, Robert Lewis
Publicity: Nancy Lindeman, Lucy duPertuis
Event flyers: Tony Pinkham
T-shirt designer: Angelica Riley
Program designer/editor: Robert Lewis
Announcer: Scott Aster
Awards:  Tony Pinkham, Joe Scarborough
Webmaster: Abby Wolfe

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