Coyote Lake–Harvey Bear Ranch County Park
Date: (Sun.) Jan. 25, 2026
Location: Gilroy, CA
Event Director: 
Course Setters: Tom De Vre, Theo Verhoeven
Type: B; At the Coyote Lake side of the park: Standard 7-course event for beginners through advanced orienteers; beginners and non-members are welcome; free beginner instruction will be available
Related Event Information
WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=110185) Attackpoint Results (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_60245) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=572) Event Announcement
Event Write-Up
By , Event Director
About 128 participants came to this year’s BAOC event at Coyote Lake – Harvey Bear Ranch County Park.
As in previous years, Tom De Vre designed and set eight courses with the help of Theo Verhoeven, on the map expanded and corrected by Misha Kreslavsky, who also vetted the courses.
Beginners enjoyed the park’s great views and its fantastic beauty. The Advanced courses started and finished close to the Coyote Lake Dam. The Blue course reached a newly-mapped part of the park that had never been used before.
Special thanks to Park Rangers Will Bick, Brandon McDaniel, and Patrick Semple for their help during the permitting process and the event-day support.
This event would not have been possible without the guidance of the BAOC Regional Event Coordinator, Graham Brew, and all of the volunteers listed below.
- Course Setting: Tom De Vre, Theo Verhoeven
- Map Expansion & Correction, Course Vetting: Misha Kreslavsky
- Event Website: Chuck Spalding
- Online Registration: Sarah Williams
- Event Registration: Steve Haas, Chuck Spalding, Sheila Cotter
- E-punch: Jeff Lanam, Misha Kreslavsky, Phil Lacroute
- Beginner Clinics: Dan Greene
- Event Center Set Up, W/Y/O Finish & Start setup: Weichun Fong, David Colman
- Carpool Coordination: Weichun Fong, Ginny Wailes
- W/Y/O Starts: David Colman, Monika Sebova
- Advanced Finish & Start setup: Tom De Vre, Theo Verhoeven, Vicki Woolworth
- Advanced Starts: Vicki Woolworth, Kat Lan, Theo Verhoeven
- Dam Parking Coordination: Theo Verhoeven
- Control Pickup (W/Y/O): Werner Haag, Weichun Fong, Monika Sebova
- Control Pickup (Advanced): Tom De Vre, Luc Poppe, Steve Gregg, Eric Rosenzweig, Tac Sugiyama, and Cedric Lasfargues
- Equipment Transfer: Vicki Woolworth, Steve Gregg
- RouteGadget: Tapio Karras
If I’ve accidentally omitted any names, please let me know!
Best wishes,
Lubo
Results
Coyote Lake–Harvey Bear Ranch County Park
Gilroy, CA
Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026
Course: White Yellow Orange Silver Brown Green Red Blue
Also see control-by-control timing in the WinSplits results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=110185) and on Attackpoint (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_60245).
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=572). (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, you should set the offset 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.
- Comments from the E-punch Director:
- Thanks to Event Director Lubomir Šebo and Course Setters Tom De Vre and Theo Verhoeven for a great event! Thanks also to Misha Kreslavsky for extensive improvements and extensions to the map. A lot of people volunteered for this event, including the carpool coordinators. My personal thanks to Misha and Phil Lacroute for helping with E-punch, and to Weichun Fong for staying to help with teardown.
- – Jeff Lanam, E-punch Director
Please tell Jeff Lanam () and the webmasters () if anything needs to be changed.
Preliminary Results
White Course (2.9 km, 70 m climb, 9 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Ashley Graham BAOC 27:55 0:37
2 Marianne Moore 38:35 10:40 3:45
3 Bobcats 46:47 18:52 5:11
4 Family Koskela BAOC 54:32 26:37 5:17
5 Team Lynx Fox BAOC 1:04:06 36:11 5:56
6 Adit Gautam BSA 1:12:14 44:19 20:19
7 Nataniel Miller 1:12:45 44:50 21:05
Harry Richardson BAOC DNF
Yellow Course (3.0 km, 100 m climb, 11 controls)
Time
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind Lost
1 Gaelen Mibeck 36:26 3:10
2 Bicycle Repair Team 39:34 3:08 2:20
3 Team Artemis 39:38 3:12 2:19
4 Valerie Lacroute BAOC 42:42 6:16 2:29
5 Shee[tech 45:26 9:00 5:24
6 Lumi Koskela BAOC 53:40 17:14 7:28
7 Gary Hermanse, Erin Golec 58:58 22:32 14:39
8 Schmidt 59:00 22:34 5:11
9 Sea Turtles 1:01:11 24:45 4:42
10 Jonas De Vre BAOC 1:01:40 25:14 18:13
11 Coyotes 1:30:16 53:50 27:20
12 Brave Ones 1:57:27 81:01 22:00
Orange Course (3.6 km, 180 m climb, 12 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Mattie Coolen OLV Baselland 52:15 7:27
2 Steven Rodrigues BAOC 1:09:03 16:48 9:52
3 Disoriented Runner BAOC 1:19:16 27:01 13:48
4 Brian Auchincloss BAOC 1:25:29 33:14 18:51
5 Marie De Vre BAOC 1:48:39 56:24 23:40
6 Heidi Negrete Reedley NJROTC 2:22:16 90:01 51:42
7 Dean Guerrine Reedley NJROTC 2:22:27 90:12 52:08
David Sodaro BAOC DNF
Beatrice Schreibstein OCIN DNS
Silver Course (2.8 km, 100 m climb, 6 controls)
Time
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind Lost
1 Evan Custer BAOC 59:20 4:46
2 George Minarik BAOC 59:45 0:25 6:27
3 Dan Greene BAOC 1:08:55 9:35 6:25
4 Sue Roome South Ribble OC 1:12:19 12:59 17:31
5 Rich Parker BAOC 1:12:57 13:37 11:04
6 Steven Rodrigues 1:15:45 16:25 23:56
7 Jeff Lanam BAOC 1:25:07 25:47 3:56
8 Lauren Wemmer BAOC 1:45:16 45:56 18:19
9 Neville Fernandes, Rucha Bedarkar BAOC 1:45:34 46:14 20:57
Leslie Minarik BAOC MSP
Rivlin DNF
Brown Course (4.1 km, 135 m climb, 10 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Martyn Roome South Ribble OC 44:00 0:00
2 Steve Gregg BAOC 46:49 2:49 1:28
3 Werner Haag BAOC 48:00 4:00 1:57
4 Virginia Wailes BAOC 55:35 11:35 7:53
5 Chuck Spalding BAOC 1:03:37 19:37 9:32
6 Gary Kraght BAOC 1:06:58 22:58 3:54
7 Victor Frolov BAOC 1:07:52 23:52 8:29
8 Olga Boiarynova BAOC 1:12:48 28:48 11:49
9 Olga Kraght BAOC 1:20:54 36:54 11:51
10 Steve Haas BAOC 1:23:29 39:29 20:01
11 Sheila Cotter BAOC 1:33:50 49:50 17:19
Anai Acosta Reedley NJROTC DNF
Emma Hall Reedley NJROTC DNF
Johanna Merriss BAOC DNS
Green Course (5.2 km, 245 m climb, 14 controls)
Time
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind Lost
1 Paul Roome BAOC 48:02 0:29
2 François Léonard BAOC 1:00:35 12:33 4:59
3 Tapio Karras BAOC 1:01:27 13:25 6:04
4 Matt Marlow BAOC 1:10:36 22:34 11:59
5 Phil Lacroute BAOC 1:14:38 26:36 9:06
6 Tac Sugiyama BAOC 1:17:02 29:00 14:40
7 Nik Weber GCO 1:17:13 29:11 5:10
8 Eric Rosenzweig BAOC 1:24:39 36:37 5:41
9 David Colman BAOC 1:26:30 38:28 13:37
10 Marie-Josée Parayre BAOC 1:27:22 39:20 8:39
11 Kevin Henry BAOC 1:28:05 40:03 15:42
12 Alison Weber BAOC 2:09:00 80:58 31:23
13 Luc Poppe BAOC 2:10:26 82:24 35:55
14 Liz Williams, Stan Barret BAOC 3:08:05 140:03 1:01:49
Vicki Woolworth NAVX MSP
Enxun Wei BAOC DNF
Fernando Gonzalez Garcia Reedley NJROTC DNF
Lingshan Xu DNF
Luyuan Lin BAOC DNF
Puppy LIC BAOC DNF
Shengye Wang BAOC DNF
Red Course (6.3 km, 275 m climb, 17 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Nikolay Chukanov BAOC 1:11:22 1:53
2 Deron Van Hoff BAOC 1:21:18 9:56 3:42
3 John Richardson BAOC 1:22:16 10:54 11:59
4 Andrej Masalkov BAOC 1:28:42 17:20 8:12
5 Mattias Mattsson BAOC 1:40:29 29:07 5:52
6 Patrick Carvalho BAOC 1:55:57 44:35 12:13
7 Pierre & Luc 1:56:19 44:57 19:22
8 Cedric Lasfargues 2:00:00 48:38 22:35
9 Kat Lan BAOC 2:00:42 49:20 16:56
10 Josh Munic BAOC 2:20:18 68:56 36:21
11 Tim Sandage 2:55:38 104:16 1:04:01
Blue Course (7.5 km, 330 m climb, 20 controls)
Time
Pl Name Club Time Behind Lost
1 Vladimir Gusiatnikov OCIN 1:11:58 0:49
2 Ouri Karni BAOC 1:13:49 1:51 2:32
3 Greg Khanlarov BAOC 1:18:06 6:08 6:48
4 Jeffrey Kabel BAOC 1:28:15 16:17 15:00
5 Emily Ellsworth BAOC 1:32:20 20:22 8:19
6 George Simmons OD 1:44:43 32:45 6:12
7 Rex Winterbottom BAOC 1:50:32 38:34 7:01
8 Weichun Fong BAOC 1:56:01 44:03 26:52
9 Gavin Wyatt-Mair BAOC 2:56:25 104:27 10:36
Wayne Staats BAOC DNF
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DNF = Did not finish (one or more controls missed)
DNS = Did not start
MSP = Mispunched (one or more incorrect controls)