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Monte Bello and Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserves

Date: (Sun.) Oct. 7, 2007
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Event Director: - 206.913.3790
Course Setter: Kent Ohlund
Type: B; Regular 7-course BAOC event

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Event Write-Up

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Sunny weather, but not too hot, greeted us Sunday for our annual event at these two preserves in the south Peninsula. We don't try to publicize this one too much, because the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District requires that we keep attendance down to minimize impact. Nevertheless, plenty of folks showed up as usual. In fact, I count 224, which is just one shy of the maximum on our permit. Even so, the parking lot did not overflow for the first time in years—many thanks to all who shared rides.

Kent Ohlund designed the courses with a lot of help from Greg Khanlarov. The White, Yellow, and Orange courses in Skyline Ridge utilized additional terrain that Bob Cooley had mapped since last year's event. The four advanced courses for Monte Bello were pronounced "tough but fair" by the participants: lots of technical challenge, and, as a result (on this map), lots of physical challenge as well.

Apologies for running out of maps for the Brown course. We had Bob print 30 maps and it is a mystery how these were exhausted by the 23 participants listed for the course. At least two people who intended to do the Brown course ended up doing the Green course instead because of this.

Updated results are below. A couple people are listed as "DNS" for "did not start"—these people registered, but we have no record of them in the epunch software. Let us know if you have further information.

This event requires more help than average. Thanks to all who helped out, especially to those did not go orienteering and came just to help. Let me know if you can fill in names where it says "and others" below:

Scheduling and insurance: Brad Wetmore
Mapping and map printing: Bob Cooley
Equipment: Mark Blair and Alan Glendinning (special thanks to Alan for an emergency delivery of additional control bags at 7:00 A.M. Sunday)
Assistant course setter: Greg Khanlarov
Registration: Ev and Jean Beuerman
Beginner clinics: Ken Livak
Intermediate clinic: Dan Greene
First Aid: Marty Katz and Joan Roos
Setup: Fyodor and Masha Konkov, Julia and Natasha Doubson, and Michael Young
Epunch: Jeff Lanam, Steve Beuerman, and Toby and Cameron Ferguson, and others
Parking: Michael Young, Dean French, Chuck Spalding, and Mattias Kohler
Starts in Skyline Ridge: Gela, and Manfred, Phillip, and Daniel Kopisch
Crossing guard: Anita Yerneni and dad, Jim Fish, Michael Young, Ben Legg, and Steve Haas
Emergency communications: Clare Livak, Torkel Dominique, and T Cotter
Control pickup and/or tear down: Harold and Penny DeMoss, Theo Verhoeven, Luc Poppe, Mike Fleishman, George and Leslie Minarik, Alex and Chris Finch, Nancy Lindeman, Ben Legg, and others

Thanks also to Rangers Elisa Wickham and Dennis Danielson of MROSD and their colleagues for working with us to organize this event. Besides approving our course designs, they arranged for highway signage to keep us safe at the road crossing, and hauled water out to remote controls.


Results

Monte Bello and Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserves

Palo Alto, CA
Sunday, October 7, 2007


  Pl  Name(s)                              Time


White Course    (2.2 km, 50 m climb, 13 controls)

   1  Zack & Ben Considine                 17:06
   2  Julia Doubson                        17:44
   3  Jeremy Kirshner                      21:46
   4  Amanda Hayton, Carly Robison,
        Evan Cusll                         23:50
   5  Anita Yerneni                        27:46
   6  Karina Masalkovaite                  29:11
   7  Johanna Karras                       30:09
   8  Sam and Angie Moore                  31:27
   9  Sarah, Maya, & Ziad Khayat           32:19
  10  Sophia & Antonio Gonzalez            33:27
  11  Sylvie Le Gall                       34:59
  12  Bronwyn Caplinger                    35:37
  13  Masha Konkov                         36:40
  14  Linda Taga & Ally Taga Anderson      38:43
  15  Kathilynn & Marilisa Lehmer,
        Terri Matter, Carmen Contreras,
        Jessica Martinez                   41:43
  16  Clare Livak                          49:29
  17  Emily Hann                         1:26:12

      Angela & Kennedy Buchner (SDO)       DNF
      Rory MacLean                         DNF
      Vitaly Eliashberg                    DNS


Yellow Course   (2.7 km, 160 m climb, 13 controls)

   1  Brett Carter                         26:19
   2  Ken Considine                        38:16
   3  Hannah & Becky Kim, Lyen Huang       41:22
   4  Gary & Cole Shaffer, Chad & Todd
        Brock, Noah Kawakaki               50:22
   5  Emma Shelton, Jacki, Nicholas,
        Erik, & Sean                     1:01:45
   6  Shura Kretchetov group (5)         1:01:54
   7  Gina Christopher                   1:03:08
   8  Paquin, Tom, Aimee, Dante,
       Davos, & Nadia                    1:08:06
   9  Ron, Meg, and Emily Thumann        1:09:08
  10  Peter & Artem Skorokhodov          1:22:41
  11  Brandon, Darcy, Amelia, &
        Jack Nugent                      1:28:07
  12  Kathy & Ernesto Duque              1:46:07
  13  Nina Schindler                     1:57:28
  14  Rahul & Ninga Singireddy           2:12:19
  15  Paquin & Anton Casarez,
        Vince Alex                       2:12:50
  16  Inge, Alec & Olivia Vercruysse,
        Sofie Keuppens,
        June Vanderberghe / Vandeputte   2:20:48
  17  Craig Thomas                       2:32:39

      Preston Tollinger                    MSP
      Dave Robertson                       DNF
      Liat Zavodivker                      DNF
      Gary Kraght                          DNF


Orange Course   (2.8 km, 210 m climb, 11 controls)

   1  Randall Franklin                     59:24
   2  Brian Ridgway                      1:09:06
   3  Chris Buchner (SDO)                1:10:12
   4  John Turner                        1:11:53
   5  Nancy & Max Lippe                  1:21:36
   6  Susan Ryan                         1:27:48
   7  Jason Umhoefer                     1:30:18
   8  Lyen Kim, Becky, Hannah            1:30:20
   9  Bevan Waite                        1:34:23
  10  Paul, Julianne, & James Freeman    1:34:43
  11  Terri Hunt, Kevin Hinkley          1:35:27
  12  Judy Koehler                       1:41:44
  13  Dean French                        1:43:25
  14  Justin Anderson                    1:44:20
  15  Bill Rassieur, Minau Wang          1:45:18
  16  Natasha Doubson                    1:46:56
  17  Michael Young                      1:47:14
  18  Kristine & Eric Nichols            2:18:34
  19  Dan Keith, Jennifer Veditz         2:27:31
  20  Ken Livak                          2:27:56

      Frank Markowitz                      DNF
      Harold Lischner                      DNF
      Thierry Le Gall                      DNF
      Alex, Joe, & Jean van Hoff           DNF
      Harold DeMoss                        DNF


Brown Course    (2.9 km, 210 m climb, 10 controls)

   1  Eric Stoutenburg                   1:06:18
   2  Lauren Knight                      1:34:59
   3  Greg Ehrensing                     1:47:42
   4  Daniel Kopisch                     1:54:34
   5  Jim Fish                           2:06:55
   6  Tom & Judy Cronin                  2:08:14
   7  Jan Vanhoutte                      2:24:13
   8  Brian Kirshner                     2:25:32
   9  Rosemary Johnson                   2:37:49
  10  Laszlo Varga                       2:51:49
  11  Richard & Rita Hellyer             3:00:14
  12  Michael Chan, Carmello Kintana     3:17:52

      Hugh Magen                           MSP
      Nancy Lindeman                       DNF
      Cameron Ferguson                     DNF
      Sung Lee                             DNF
      Adam Ruskin, Eric Wilkinson          DNF
      Philipp Kopisch                      DNF
      Alan Houser                          DNF
      Joan Roos                            DNF


Green Course    (3.9 km, 250 m climb, 13 controls)

   1  Torkel Dominique                   1:02:54
   2  Steve Haas                         1:07:21
   3  Werner Haag                        1:21:39
   4  Jim Waite                          1:31:13
   5  Stephanie Maclean                  1:32:05
   6  Stephen Harrison                   1:36:48
   7  Tony Pinkham                       1:43:28
   8  Juha Koskenvuo                     1:47:35
   9  Hilary Hardcastle                  1:50:30
  10  Johanna Merriss                    1:50:32
  11  Parag Gupta                        1:55:15
  12  Svetlana Arde                      2:22:03
  13  Wayne Caplinger                    2:27:34
  14  Nick Corsano                       2:29:49
  15  Jeff Lanam                         2:31:18

      Ido Green                            DNF
      Elizabeth Miller, Dwight Henbough    DNF
      Phillip Hoare                        DNF
      George Minarik                       DNF
      Dan Greene                           DNF
      Frederick Lee                        DNF
      Shura Kretchetov & Sheretov          DNF   (2nd course)


Red Course      (5.4 km, 330 m climb, 18 controls)

   1  Tapio Karras                       1:20:55
   2  Steve Gregg                        1:24:08
   3  Matthias Kohler                    1:35:00
   4  Derek MacLean                      1:43:07
   5  Rich Parker (SDO)                  1:45:46
   6  Alexander Brunette                 1:48:19
   7  Eric Rosenzweig                    1:53:32
   8  Manfred Kopisch                    1:54:53
   9  Dennis Wilkinson                   2:02:50
  10  Alex Finch                         2:08:19
  11  Deron van Hoff                     2:11:39
  12  Amit Katz                          2:15:51
  13  Fyodor Konkov                      2:19:31
  14  Theo Verhoeven                     2:21:36
  15  Luc Poppe                          2:23:25

      Travis Parker                        DNF
      Bob Strauss                          DNF
      Brett Carter                         DNF
      Dennis Wildfogel                     DNF
      Chuck Spalding                       DNF


Blue Course     (6.0 km, 510 m climb, 21 controls)

   1  Mikkel Conradi                     1:17:46
   2  Christian Degen                    1:30:43
   3  Dag Ainsoo                         1:32:05
   4  Slava Akinin                       1:34:00
   5  Scott Porter                       1:42:55
   6  Andrejus Masalkovas                1:43:00
   7  Penny DeMoss                       2:02:50
   8  Greg Favor                         2:24:00
   9  Tomer Maymon                       2:27:57
  10  Todd Paulsen                       2:31:31
  11  Tom Hardy                          3:20:23

      Ken White                            DNS

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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
DNS = Did not start (registered, but no record of starting course)
MSP = Mispunched (one or more controls wrong)