Shell Ridge Open Space
Date: (Sun.) Nov. 17, 2024
Location: Walnut Creek, CA
Event Directors: 
- 510.407.1876,
Course Setter: Gavin Wyatt-Mair
Type: B; Standard 7-course event for beginners through advanced; everyone is welcome, including non-members and beginners, with free, brief, beginner instruction available
Related Event Information
WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=101644) Attackpoint Results (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_58639) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=549) Event Announcement
Event Write-Up
By
Greetings! Glad so many of you made it out to Shell Ridge on November 17.
It was a chilly morning … but it warmed up just enough for our joint BAOC/Nav-X event on the hills of Walnut Creek. In fact, so many orienteers came out for the BAOC courses (215!) that my too-modest estimate for maps caused some folks to have to wait for returned maps or to change their courses. My sincere apologies for the inconvenience.
It was great to see so many young people out there. There seemed to be a high school rivalry (BHS vs SHS?) going on, as well as active participation by the NJROTC groups. Carson City even managed to fit in a map and course clinic held for them by Rex Winterbottom.
Special thanks to our key volunteers:
- Gavin Wyatt-Mair, Course Setter, designed some interesting courses in the steep Shell Ridge terrain, challenging both experienced orienteers and newcomers.
- In addition to filling in for innumerable event director tasks, Sheila Cotter shopped for and dished out some tasty snacks — hopefully even the hungry teens and 4-hour map trekkers got enough to eat.
- And the rest of the village:
- Starts: Brian Ritchken, Jerry Skirvin, and Drew Taplin
- Registration: Sarah Williams, Steve Haas
- Greeter: Sheila Cotter
- Beginner Clinics: Nick Corsano, Sheila Cotter
- Control Pick-up: Andrew Nisbet, Jake Niebaum, Bill Cusworth, Gavin Wyatt-Mair, Tapio Karras, Henrike Siemen
- Website Updates: Chuck Spalding and the webmasters
- Early Runners: Mikkel Conradi, Drew Taplin
- Sarah Williams also compiled map usage statistics for future planning
In addition, we’d like to acknowledge City of Walnut Creek, Shell Ridge Open Space ranger Joel Cervantes for reviewing our plans and giving us permission to hold this event. We’d also like to thank the Walnut Creek School District for allowing us to use their parking area.
Results
Shell Ridge Open Space
Walnut Creek, CA
Sunday, November 17, 2024
White Course Yellow Course Orange Course Short Brown Course Brown Course Green Course Red Course Blue Course
Also see control-by-control timing in the WinSplits results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=101644) and on Attackpoint (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_58639).
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=549). (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.
Please tell Jay Hann () and the webmasters () if anything needs to be changed.
Preliminary Results
White Course (2.7 km, 54 m/2.0% climb, 8 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Lambert Trevor Gävle OK 20:04 0:33 (2nd course)
2 Ryder Young 22:39 2:35 2:20
3 What's the Team Name? BAOC 30:53 10:49 1:07
4 Team Brekke 36:16 16:12 1:20
5 The Rat 40:28 20:24 3:03
6 Team Gowreea 41:43 21:39 5:50
7 Coral Chapman CSHOC 50:05 30:01 16:34
8 Devi & David Bond 50:06 30:02 10:41
8 Kayla Wood CSHOC 50:06 30:02 15:42
10 Emi, Rebecca, & Michelle BAOC 50:40 30:36 4:28
11 Malstrom 52:26 32:22 5:25
12 The Big Rocks 54:21 34:17 15:03
13 The Big Rocks 56:21 36:17 14:54
14 Map 58:49 38:45 12:24
15 SPT2 1:04:08 44:04 12:29
16 Deluca 1:04:30 44:26 19:28
17 Almos Adorjan 1:07:58 47:54 34:30
18 Hao family BAOC 1:15:15 55:11 16:00
19 Escondido Girls BAOC 1:35:04 75:00 30:23
Mirjana Spasojevic DNF
G Z DNS
Liz Craig DNS
Yellow Course (3.2 km, 110 m/3.5% climb, 8 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Alexander White Gävle OK 31:40 1:40 (2nd course)
2 David & Sophia BAOC 35:04 3:24 2:02
3 Nicole Dubinchyk BAOC 37:37 5:57 6:41
4 Austin O'Boyle 39:18 7:38 4:39
5 Lost & Found 42:49 11:09 7:56
6 Beatrice Schreibstein OCIN 43:05 11:25 5:36
7 Andre Montanez 43:22 11:42 5:26
8 Chloe Suitt-Payne CHSOC 44:56 13:16 5:12
9 Georgiy Platonov 45:21 13:41 7:20
10 Akira Ramirez-Hall CHSOC 45:57 14:17 8:08 (2nd course)
11 Cash McIntyre CHSOC 46:01 14:21 7:06
12 Julian Conradi BAOC 48:12 16:32 8:32
13 Yala Dubinchyk BAOC 48:16 16:36 6:22
14 Winnie The Pooks 48:45 17:05 4:07
15 Disha Jindal 49:21 17:41 6:40
16 Gowreea BAOC 51:59 20:19 6:46 (2nd course)
17 Suzan Want BAOC 53:34 21:54 6:41
18 Vilhelm Juvonen 53:55 22:15 8:51
19 Lliam Reeder CHSOC 56:49 25:09 17:29
20 Persimmon NAVX 57:13 25:33 17:41
21 Anna Coleman 59:15 27:35 6:52
22 BHS2 BAOC 59:20 27:40 6:55
23 Stephen Pon 59:41 28:01 6:21
24 Sean, Shane, & Jacob BAOC 1:01:16 29:36 11:39
25 J. JeanDheur 1:01:18 29:38 11:59
26 Samuel Ling 1:01:29 29:49 11:38
27 Julie Johnson 1:02:48 31:08 6:03
28 Kirk Johnson 1:02:49 31:09 6:10
29 Oliver Conradi BAOC 1:06:16 34:36 2:17
30 Adrianna CHSOC 1:07:14 35:34 3:56
31 Emma Hounsell CSHOC 1:08:40 37:00 7:26
32 Knowledge Team BAOC 1:10:09 38:29 10:22
33 Parga 1:10:56 39:16 18:02
34 SHS 1:12:07 40:27 9:32
35 Jason 1:14:11 42:31 14:15
36 Wei & Royce 1:15:14 43:34 9:20
37 G Z 1:17:14 45:34 10:19
38 Dog Pile 1:31:29 59:49 25:37
39 Lea BAOC 1:38:34 66:54 12:55
40 SJSU 1:42:43 71:03 30:03
41 Worlasie Djameh, Denny Skriachelko 1:43:06 71:26 32:23
42 Nancy Lindeman BAOC 2:32:53 121:13 14:40
Sean Lopez Gävle OK DNF (2nd course)
The Best of Berkeley High BAOC DNF
Coral Chapman CSHOC DNS
Kayla Wood CSHOC DNS
Rachel Wu DNS
Orange Course (4.4 km, 180 m/4.1% climb, 11 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Austin O'Boyle BAOC 1:07:49 4:13 (2nd course)
2 Georgiy Platonov 1:18:38 10:49 7:25 (2nd course)
3 Peter Woodbury CHSOC 1:36:52 29:03 16:53
4 Sam Carlos, Jan Auladell BAOC 1:39:58 32:09 16:47
5 Ryan O'keefe Gävle OK 1:44:10 36:21 12:23
6 Sean Lopez Gävle OK 1:44:47 36:58 15:13
7 Alexander White Gävle OK 1:44:48 36:59 15:39
8 Elliot Dixon Gävle OK 1:45:06 37:17 16:27
9 SHS Boys 1:47:05 39:16 20:34
10 Vivi Mellow CHSOC 1:52:55 45:06 36:49
11 Alexander Wells CHSOC 1:54:15 46:26 37:16
12 The Big Rocks 1:54:52 47:03 19:17 (2nd course)
13 Michelle, Emi, & Rebecca 1:55:27 47:38 27:52 (2nd course)
14 Kaynan Miller Gävle OK 1:58:32 50:43 21:23
14 Peyton Gradillas Gävle OK 1:58:32 50:43 21:44
16 LaRocca Amelya CHSOC 2:02:54 55:05 21:23
17 Disha Jindal BAOC 2:03:47 55:58 25:23 (2nd course)
18 Cora Ballek 2:05:39 57:50 31:33
19 Harrisha Ampo CHSOC 2:08:15 60:26 38:49
20 Kane Aribella CHSOC 2:11:30 63:41 37:38
21 Basil & Friends BAOC 2:16:40 68:51 18:51
22 William Azevedo Gävle OK 2:19:23 71:34 46:50
23 Anthony Barrientos Gävle OK 2:19:26 71:37 47:35
24 Marcello Montanez 2:20:39 72:50 57:14
25 Jazzy CHSOC 2:21:48 73:59 37:23
26 Crounk Gabriel CHSOC 2:22:13 74:24 42:26
27 J. Quintrell BAOC 2:37:08 89:19 42:57
28 Tistan Martinez Valcher Gävle OK 2:55:54 108:05 83:21
Akira Ramirez-Hall CHSOC DNF
J. Kronander DNF
Joe Geddes BAOC DNF
John Batcheller DNF
NAVX Download DNF
Royce & Wei DNF (2nd course)
Short Brown Course (3.6 km, 150 m/4.1% climb, 9 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Date Day BAOC 1:01:41 6:24
2 Lambert Trevor Gävle OK 1:05:48 4:07 16:34
3 A. Mistry 1:08:30 6:49 15:22
4 J. Niebaum BAOC 1:08:32 6:51 10:35
5 Persimmon 1:27:30 25:49 23:40 (2nd course)
6 Nils Schulupp 1:31:08 29:27 8:39
7 Ada Krechetov BAOC 1:34:10 32:29 13:29
8 Evan Custer BAOC 1:34:27 32:46 17:08
9 Mike Dreves 1:34:51 33:10 20:54
10 Howlers 2:00:49 59:08 7:55
11 Bay Chang BAOC 2:01:09 59:28 38:29
12 Russell Green BAOC 2:04:50 63:09 16:51
Ingert Svaerd BAOC DNF
Josh & Noah Abrams DNF
Samuel Krechetov BAOC DNS
Zoe Douglas DNS
Brown Course (4.0 km, 180 m/4.6% climb, 10 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Alfredo Fernandez 50:30 3:46
2 Kimball Forrest ARCTIC 55:44 5:14 1:05
3 Gary Kraght BAOC 1:06:22 15:52 3:04
4 Stephanie Maclean BAOC 1:09:27 18:57 5:39
5 Matthew Blain 1:13:00 22:30 4:50
6 Carlos Montanez 1:15:45 25:15 6:49
7 Chuck Spalding BAOC 1:16:28 25:58 8:43
8 R. Peters BAOC 1:17:39 27:09 12:58
9 Johanna Merriss BAOC 1:29:46 39:16 9:15
10 Stephen Haas BAOC 1:29:58 39:28 16:07
11 Michael Robinson BAOC 1:36:47 46:17 13:32
12 Phillip Hoare NAVX 1:44:19 53:49 10:29
13 Jasmine Slater CHSOC 1:52:49 62:19 21:31
14 Nick Corsano BAOC 1:55:50 65:20 13:35
15 Janet Petersen BAOC 1:57:49 67:19 18:48
16 Miroslav Trubelja BAOC 2:00:33 70:03 17:51
17 Rhonda Stieber BAOC 2:00:42 70:12 16:21
18 The Cardiff Crushers SWOC 2:09:33 79:03 25:27
19 Tom & Judy Cronin 2:54:13 123:43 27:20
Henrique & Jessica DNF
Olga Kraght BAOC DNF
Roy Want BAOC DNF
Sheila Cotter BAOC DNF
Lori Buecheler BAOC DNS
Green Course (5.2 km, 290 m/5.6% climb, 14 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 François Léonard BAOC 1:03:50 0:00
2 Tapio Karras BAOC 1:18:27 14:37 6:11
3 Misha Kreslavsky BAOC 1:19:20 15:30 2:27
4 Steve Gregg BAOC 1:19:52 16:02 2:52
5 Tyler Williams BAOC 1:27:01 23:11 7:33
6 Josef Estrada-Ledesma CHSOC 1:28:52 25:02 13:14
7 Alexander Petrovykh 1:37:00 33:10 1:33
8 Matthias Kohler BAOC 1:37:56 34:06 3:43
9 Matt Marlow 1:38:53 35:03 19:17
10 Marie-Josée Parayre BAOC 1:39:21 35:31 6:53
11 Mark Petersen BAOC 1:42:39 38:49 3:18
12 Derek Maclean BAOC 1:44:12 40:22 10:45
13 J. Niebaum 1:44:32 40:42 11:54 (2nd course)
14 Shura Krechetov BAOC 1:53:45 49:55 11:53
15 Drew Taplin BAOC 1:55:50 52:00 32:51
16 Olga Boiarynova 2:01:02 57:12 14:07
17 Joe Maffei 2:05:26 61:36 11:04
18 Ray Rosenbaum BAOC 2:19:28 75:38 26:18
19 Sarah Naughten 2:24:47 80:57 31:22
20 Hui Shi BAOC 2:26:43 82:53 21:05
21 S. Sampson BAOC 2:50:19 106:29 58:01
Jerry Skirvin BAOC DNF
Rashi & Tharu BAOC DNF
Shengye Wang BAOC DNF
Red Course (6.1 km, 340 m/5.6% climb, 16 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Evgeny Kachanovsky BAOC 1:08:27 2:24
2 Brian Rockin' Runnin' BAOC 1:15:08 6:41 5:30
3 Mattias Vangbo BAOC 1:18:40 10:13 5:39
4 Nikolay Chukanov BAOC 1:28:25 19:58 6:21
5 Daria Titkina BAOC 1:29:45 21:18 10:04
6 Emily Ellsworth BAOC 1:35:00 26:33 12:14
7 John Richardson BAOC 1:51:24 42:57 26:38
8 Chris Haney BAOC 1:55:50 47:23 24:02
Raj Joshi, Jerry Oregel BAOC DNF
Blue Course (7.6 km, 410 m/5.4% climb, 16 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Jeffrey Goodwin BAOC 1:23:30 6:45
2 Mikkel Conradi BAOC 1:24:01 0:31 3:00
3 Ouri Karni BAOC 1:27:19 3:49 4:26
4 Rex Winterbottom BAOC 1:48:07 24:37 6:43
5 Peter Laraia BAOC 1:48:11 24:41 9:34
6 Deron van Hoff BAOC 1:54:11 30:41 3:44
7 Weichun Fong BAOC 2:03:18 39:48 15:52
8 Kris Andersen 2:42:19 78:49 17:17
Boyuan Zhang BAOC DNF
Nathan Curtis BAOC DNF
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DNF = Did not finish (one or more controls missed)
DNS = Did not start