It was a bright, sunny October morning, and we were lucky it didn't rain, considering the soaking the area got the morning before the event. About 65 people came out to greet the sun in Santa Cruz and travel these trail-covered meadows, hills, and reentrants. Those who travelled in the reentrants might have described them as "ravines". Below are the complete results.
Many thanks to Ev and Jean for running registration; Doug Stein for helping me set the courses, copy the maps, and hang and pick up the bags; Steve Jankowski for helping with finishes and control pickup; Brian Moore for running the starts; and Syd Read for running the finishes and checking all the results.
There were three courses: a short White, a long Yellow, and an extra-long Score-O. No one was able to get all the controls on the Score-O, perhaps because I made it a real pain to do so, but no matter, real choices had to be made in order to rack up a goodly number of points. The penalty for coming in late was 1 point per minute. Some of the people who came back between 90 and 100 minutes got placed in the results for the 3-hour Score-O, since you were allowed to choose your length (90 minutes or 3 hours) after you were out on the course.
Malcolm aced the White course, and Gary Kraght took Yellow. Terry Gleason and Nancy Lindeman collected the highest number of points on the Score-O in under 90 minutes. Dan Stoll-Hadayia and Gary Carpenter took the most Score-O controls, each collecting all the controls but #153. Dan managed to get in under 3 hours with a minute to spare.
White Course 3.3km 30m climb 4 controls 1. Malcolm Wyatt-Mair 29:20 Yellow Course 6km 120m climb 10 controls 1. Gary Kraght 45:06 2. Ron Thumann 54:11 3. Richard Jerrard (LAOC) 76:44 4. Mike & Lipp 88:25 5. Johnson, Johnson, Kuhn 89:26 6. Werner & Dao 97:27 7. Aija, Laura, & Matthew Power 120:59 8. Tina, Peter, and Monica LoBue 135:28 9. Tamara O'Kelly & group 138:09 Score-O 90 minutes lots of run and climb 28 controls 49 points 1. Terry Gleason 88:12 17 - 0 = 17 2. Nancy Lindeman 89:37 17 - 0 = 17 3. Russell Green 74:21 15 - 0 = 15 4. Ed Nevill 90:46 14 - 1 = 13 5. Sandy & Tom Guldman 84:13 12 - 0 = 12 6. Al, Geoff, Andrew, Michelle 85:18 12 - 0 = 12 7. Martin Weiss 86:46 12 - 0 = 12 8. Pamela Tweedy 90:23 9 - 1 = 8 Score-O 180 minutes lots of run and climb 28 controls 49 points 1. Dan Stoll-Hadayia 178:58 48 - 0 = 48 2. Gary Carpenter 181:41 48 - 2 = 46 3. Brian Moore 182:52 47 - 3 = 44 4. Dan Greene 178:53 42 - 0 = 42 5. Mark Prior 178:32 40 - 0 = 40 6. Kelly Wells 182:02 40 - 3 = 37 7. Audrey Warmuth 176:56 31 - 0 = 31 8. Kenny Demeurichy 181:06 25 - 2 = 23 9. Susan Lindeman 172:21 22 - 0 = 22 10. Sharon Evans & Michael Slavin 186:38 28 - 7 = 21 11. Patty Clemo 100:55 19 - 0 = 19 12. Eric Rosenzweg 191:41 31 -12 = 19 13. Mike Poulsen & Aileen Abernathy 191:53 31 -12 = 19 14. Jeff Lanam 93:10 17 - 0 = 17 15. Neal Cusick & Kevin Maple 103:40 17 - 0 = 17 16. Tim Dalbec & Jennifer Sahara 105:13 17 - 0 = 17 17. C. Robinson 173:15 17 - 0 = 17 18. Bob Cooley 200:53 37 -21 = 16 19. Vivian Lee 96:12 15 - 0 = 15 20. George Chau 98:28 13 - 0 = 13 21. Oleg Shakhuorsky 107:26 12 - 0 = 12 22. Cheryl Madson 134:08 12 - 0 = 12 23. Andy McGugan 120:53 9 - 0 = 9 24. Aorsey Moore 208:00 35 -28 = 7 25. Galena Shakhuorsky 92:57 5 - 0 = 5 26. Robert Lewis 222:56 33 -43 =-10