Las Trampas Regional Wilderness
Date: (Sun.) Dec. 2, 2007
Location: San Ramon, CA
Event Directors: 
- 510.524.1239, - 541.401.7595
Course Setters: Alan Houser, Ben Legg
Type: B; Regular 7-course BAOC event (BAOC COOL meet #3)
Related Information
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Event Write-Up
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What a beautiful day for orienteering at Las Trampas! The weather was cool, but it was sunny and dry—the only sprinkles of rain arrived just after we had gathered up the last equipment. Lots of people came out to take advantage of this weather too. Nearly 200 people in 157 groups going out on the courses! Jay Hann’s interscholastic league, BAOC COOL, had another excellent turnout, with 14 juniors competing and doing very well against much older competitors (two firsts and eleven top-ten finishers over four courses).
The biggest turnout was on White, where Cub Scout Packs 474 and 53 combined to bring 15 groups. A few unfortunate DNFs occurred on White, where it appeared that a few groups became so excited seeing the finish chute that they ran right past the GO control! Oh well, they found all the rest and made it home safely. The always remarkable Julia Doubson of COOL placed first on White in just under 15 minutes.
On the Yellow course, first and second places went to the Kopisch brothers (also COOL members), with Daniel coming in ahead of Philipp. Adam Doti won Orange by a wide margin, and his adventure racer buddies say it’s time to try a harder course! Andreas Nguyen and Susan Bower came in the next two slots on orange.
There was some excitement on the advanced courses too, with several orienteers taking advantage of the shorter distances to move up one class for the day. Francois Leonard captured first on Blue with Andrejus Masalkovas close behind, but some usual Red-course runners like Tapio and Matthias didn’t leave them much room to breath! Gavin Wyatt-Mair was top placer on Brown, Gary Carpenter on Green, and Deron van Hoff on Red.
Unfortunately, runners weren’t the only things that switched courses. Our apologies to any Red runners confused to find a control labeled #46 when expecting #49—and any Blue runners who confused by the converse. Overall, perhaps the trickiest control of all the advanced courses was #1, which gave just a taste of Las Trampas’s infamous gullies. Otherwise, the running was fast and furious.
All of the fun was made possible by a lot of excellent volunteers. These included Derek Maclean, Steph Maclean, David Meredith, Greg Ehrensing, Rex Winterbottom, Tomar Maymon, Carl Williams and his family, Gavin Wyatt-Mair, Steve Gregg, Harold DeMoss, Penny DeMoss, Mark Blair, Nancy Lindeman, Peter Graube, Jay Hann, Toby Ferguson, Cameron Ferguson, Rosemary Johnson, Evan Custer, Jim Fish, Bob Cooley, and James Wilson.
These helpful folks made a great combination. There were experienced hands who could organize a meet in their sleep and newer volunteers who stepped up to help out for the first time. We appreciated your help tremendously. The support of these volunteers made it possible for the first-time event directors to relax a bit and even enjoy ourselves! We encourage anyone who hasn’t volunteered before to give it a shot—at the minimum, you’ll get to meet some other great people.
Results
Las Trampas Regional Wilderness
San Ramon, CA
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Pl Name(s) Time Comment
White Course (1.8 km, 70 m climb, 10 controls)
1 Julia Doubson 14:40 Cool
2 Tim Kuenster 17:40
3 Gavin Williams 17:58 Cool
4 Masha Konkov 18:06 Cool
5 Johanna Karras 18:39 Cool
6 Karina Masalkovaite 18:48 Cool
7 David Harrison 19:37 Cool
8 Sarah Petersen 20:12
9 Gadija Masalkovaite 21:37 Cool
10 Andreas Nguyen 22:33
11 Katie Petersen 22:40
12 Annie Sameulson 22:49 Cool
13 Eric & Terese Hibbert 23:31
14 Rory Maclean 24:38 Cool
15 Group K 31:15
16 Group F 32:11
17 Group H 33:35
18 Emily Hann 34:05 Cool
19 Group M 35:04
20 Group G 35:06
21 Den 5 37:13
22 Group C 37:20
23 Den 3 40:33
24 Group A 41:29
25 Den 1 41:56
26 Group E 43:43
27 Richie Molinari 47:19
28 Behrens family 51:53
29 Group D 1:11:13
Den 4 DNF
Group L DNF
Group J DNF
Rosenzweig family DNF
Yellow Course (2.0 km, 115 m climb, 11 controls)
1 Daniel Kopisch 23:40 Cool
2 Philipp Kopisch 32:11 Cool
3 Kopec, Murphy, Mack 38:34
4 Marina Keating 52:31
5 Kimber Kaiser 54:52
6 Brad Fisher 57:49
7 Stephen Connor 1:00:08
8 Jasper Wu 1:07:43
9 Marici Reid 1:13:37
10 Joey Gadd 1:25:43
Ernesto & Kathy Duque DNF
Kate Sameulson DNF
Orange Course (2.7 km, 175 m climb, 12 controls)
1 Adam Doti 31:51
2 Susan Bower 40:53
3 Brian Schmitz 41:49
4 Kent Ryhorchuk (GCO) 44:57
5 Brett Carter 47:54
6 Ken Considine 50:28
7 Bevan Waite 51:31 Cool
8 Donato Polignone 56:13
9 Harold DeMoss 56:48
10 Frank Markowitz 57:28
11 Terri Hunt, Kevin Hinkley 58:18
12 Adam Armijo 59:15
13 Aja Cook 1:04:49
14 Brad Fisher 1:05:17
15 Paul McCandless 1:07:53
16 L. Koziol, W. Jordan 1:15:12
17 Jennifer Rigoni 1:16:30
18 David Dippon 1:22:57
19 Jan Vanhoutte 1:27:45
20 Sung Lee 1:29:47
21 Jim Hayes 1:33:40
22 Paul & Kathy Li 1:34:53
23 Michael Young 1:36:04
24 Alla Golub, Max Martynov 2:03:10
Second Course
Andreas Nguyen 39:36
Tim Kuenster 47:55
Brown Course (3.2 km, 165 m climb, 13 controls)
1 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 46:01
2 Stefan Stefanov 49:38
3 Russell Green 51:45
4 Jim Fish 58:58
5 Vicki Woolworth 1:00:43
6 Greg Ehrensing 1:00:48
7 Leslie Minarik 1:07:46
8 Tom & Judy Cronin 1:07:49
9 Jay Lark 1:09:14
10 Brian Kirshner 1:10:57
11 Oleg Shakhnovsky 1:11:00
12 Scott & Jake Novotny 1:16:09
13 Wayne Caplinger 1:26:30
14 David Meredith 1:29:53
15 John Marold 1:32:41
16 Louis Carleton 1:33:30
17 Joan Roos 1:44:32
18 Terry Gleason 1:48:40
19 Juozas Martisius 1:49:22
20 Brett Carter 1:50:16
21 Dean French 2:24:35
22 Lee & Kendra Barker 2:28:28
23 Nancy Lindeman 2:55:34
Ellen Hughes, Tracy Sanders DNF
Beth Dixon DNF
Michelle Pelayo DNF
Green Course (3.2 km, 195 m climb, 12 controls)
1 Gary Carpenter 39:41
2 Jim Waite 42:24
3 Cameron Ferguson 44:18
4 George Minarik 47:58
5 Mark Petersen 50:19
6 Stephanie Maclean 50:46
7 Dan Greene 52:20
8 Evan Custer 52:28
9 Bud Laird 58:19
10 Johanna Merriss 1:02:40
11 Janet Petersen 1:05:33
12 Rosemary Johnson 1:15:40
13 Hillary Hardcastle 1:18:30
14 Phillip Hoare 1:18:42
15 Jennifer Kerr (GCO) 1:19:51
16 Frederick Lee 1:57:35
Shura Kretchetov DNF
Natasha Doubson DNF
Red Course (3.8 km, 230 m climb, 14 controls)
1 Deron van Hoff 42:38
2 Derek Maclean 47:41
3 Bruce Bassett (COC) 55:31
4 Manfred Kopisch 58:38
5 Toby Ferguson 1:01:34
6 Michael Behrens 1:02:09
7 Eric Rosenzweig 1:03:12
8 Will Gilmore 1:04:35
9 Steve Harrison 1:04:37
10 James Wilson 1:05:45
11 Bob Strauss 1:12:56
12 Damian Swift 1:14:45
13 Chris Delp 1:14:47
14 Joe Scarborough 1:15:06
15 Mark Blair 1:15:07
16 Sidney Porter 1:19:56
17 Joe Saba 1:35:20
Second Course
Bud Laird 1:30:43
Blue Course (4.3 km, 255 m climb, 19 controls)
1 Francois Leonard 42:42
2 Andrejus Masalkovas 43:24
3 Tapio Karras 45:24
4 Scott Porter 48:02
5 Matthias Kohler 48:10
6 Sergey Grushin 48:19
7 Tomer Maymon 49:13
8 Steve Gregg 50:27
9 Syd Reader 50:41
10 Penny DeMoss 51:36
11 Rex Winterbottom 53:26
12 Peter Graube 1:03:43
13 Fyodor Konkov 1:06:02
14 Amit Katz 1:08:08
15 Chuck Spalding 1:12:11
16 Kevin McCarty 1:12:25
17 Dennis Wilkinson 1:12:47
18 Alex French 1:13:00
19 Joe Maffei 1:14:21
20 Luc Poppe 1:15:37
21 Theo Verhoeven 1:18:32
22 Tim Kuenster 1:56:19
Frances Lin, Brett Marsh DNF
Michael Chastaine DNF
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)