By Rex Winterbottom (Regional Event Coordinator — Sierra Nevada), Co-Event Director
I guess with two event directors you should get two write-ups ...
Thanks everybody for participating and pitching in — 110 participants and 20 volunteers on 3-weeks notice is quite remarkable!
So, Matej Sebo had this interesting idea to make some challenging and interesting courses at Bayfront for beginners, intermediates, and advanced orienteers alike. And I took the bait. And Steve Haas checked with the city of Menlo Park. All of this, about 3 weeks before the event would actually happen. Then all of you made it happen by showing up and pledging to help. Thanks to the online form, I did not have to call people to get volunteers; I drew up a schedule of volunteers based on the responses, and emailed it seeking confirmation, and made a few adjustments. Lubomir Sebo picked up the equipment and helped his son with the course planning. Trinka Gillis became the ad-hoc co-event director, and took care of obtaining the rest of the needed equipment. Peter Graube, Steve Harrison, and Manfred Kopisch also arrived early to get things set up.
Great job by Matej and Lubo to make the courses fun and appropriately challenging. I completed the memory course, and found myself mentally tired later in the course, needing a bit more time to study the map at each checkpoint. I feel that doing this kind of training regularly would have some definite benefits. Maybe we could try this in other parks. The amount of work required to do this was much more than a typical event — dozens of little maps had to be created and affixed to the checkpoints. But the course setting team pulled it off smoothly. In addition, they set a busy, longer beginners' course with over 20 checkpoints. And their advanced beginners' course had good opportunities to shortcut the trails. Indeed, many participants enjoyed multiple courses.
No event write-up would be complete without a weather report, and yes, the weather around that time was bone-chilling at night. This lingered a bit into the morning, but it warmed up enough to be, I would say, not unpleasant. And it certainly was clear and sunny, with crisp views of Mt. Tamalpias and Oakland. Gazing at Oakland across the water, and seeing the skyscrapers half as high because of the curvature of the earth is always a fun sight.
Volunteers made this happen, as always, and thanks to these heretofore unmentioned folks who also lent a hand: Tony Pinkham, Vicki Woolworth, Mikkel Conradi, Dan Greene, Greg Khanlarov, Misha Lipitov, Matthias Kohler, Chuck Spalding, Steve Beuerman, George Minarik, Leslie Minarik, Nancy Lindeman, Rosemary Johnson, Steve Gregg, Dennis Wilkinson, and Misha Kreslavsky.
Lost and Found
I discovered a pair of black Mountain Hardwear gloves in a pocket of my backpack. I think they may have been left at the Bayfront event.
White Course (3.2 km, 65 m climb, 23 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Tara, Holly, & Sharam 30:13
2 Artin Davari, Leander Coolen 30:21
3 Wilkinson family 30:44
4 Gian Coolen 30:56
5 Markus Gruendler (2) 31:04
6 Isaac Chabra 32:01
7 Jamie Maclean 38:42
8 Pavel Anisimov 39:41
9 Gema Fa-Kaji 43:19
10 Chris Danek & family (3) 46:09
11 Barb Schaffer 48:14
12 Katie Gruendler (2) 48:31
13 Nicohas & Nathan Dubuk 49:18
14 Rosenzweig family 50:09
15 Nathan Fry 50:50
16 Polly Fry 51:15
17 Anand & David Chabra 51:40
18 Tracy Thorpe 52:20
19 Giulia Coolen 56:19
20 Janette Wulff 57:24
21 Elisabeth Pelayo (COOL) 1:00:20
22 Jung & Chang (4) 1:01:30
23 Cub Scout Pack 301 (4) 1:01:49
24 Sheridan family (3) 1:06:55
25 Spencer Montoya 1:08:48
26 Oleg Skvortsov 1:13:39
27 Narya Bower 1:15:22
28 Ally Shevroff 1:15:25
29 George Reynolds 1:55:39
Lorien Bower DNF
Natalie Kopisch (COOL) DNF
Soni (3) MSP
Greg Khanlarov DNF
Second Course
Shura Kretchetov 21:00
Gian Coolen 22:10
Daniel Sebo 29:09
Arthur Kashperskiy 32:23
Yellow Course (3.2 km, 65 m climb, 20 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Shura Kretchetov 25:52
2 Vlad Skvortsov 28:19
3 Daniel Sebo 32:08
4 Rory Maclean (COOL) 32:45
5 Johanna Karras (COOL) 33:23
6 Hope Fa-Kaji 34:46
7 Yulia Yukima 37:41
8 Arthur Kashperskiy 39:02
9 David & Daniel Sebo 40:55
10 Robert Lewis 41:34
11 Victor Frolov 41:40
12 Paula Zurowski 47:08
13 Team Vello (2) 47:41
14 Tom Edwards 51:19
15 Mike Meagher 55:25
16 Nicholas Dubuk (2) 55:43
17 Ed Beeler 59:22
18 Sung & Kirsty 1:04:07
19 Tara Davari 1:14:22
20 Nancy Lindeman 1:16:11
21 Silvia & Amira 1:18:17
22 Judy Koehler, Silva, & Kaia 1:25:43
23 Artin Davari 1:33:31
24 Hannah Kopisch (COOL) 1:44:42
25 Cassandra Pelayo (COOL) 1:45:03
26 Nicholas Talin 1:48:10
Greg Khanlarov DNF
Shura Kretchetov DNF
Second Course
Francois Leonard 16:17
Mark Prior 17:42
Misha Kreslavsky 19:33
Greg Khanlarov 19:35
Steve Gregg 19:51
Stephen Harrison 23:02
Isaac Chabra 41:52
Tracy Thorpe 1:06:45
Gian Coolen DNF
Memory-O Course (4.7 km, 85 m climb, 25 controls)
Pl Name(s) Time
1 Mikkel Conradi 31:06
2 Dennis Wilkinson 32:07
3 Tapio Karras 36:02
4 Rex Winterbottom 37:13
5 Mark Prior 41:50
6 Graham Brew 43:20
7 Dennis Wildfogel 44:58
8 Misha Kreslavsky 45:36
9 Steve Gregg 47:03
10 Steve Haas 47:23
11 Manfred Kopisch 47:40
12 Dan Greene 48:20
13 Peter Graube 48:28
14 Chuck Spalding 48:56
15 Mikhail Lipatov 49:30
16 Cornelia Coolen 50:23
17 Steve Harrison 50:30
18 Derek Maclean 51:14
19 Jason Reed 51:23
20 Flynn Buxton-Walsh 54:25
21 Ekaterina Orekhova 55:32
22 Marie-Josée Parayre 55:37
23 Matthias Kohler 1:02:40
24 Clement Genzmer 1:02:51
25 Vicki Woolworth 1:06:42
26 Iriena Stefanova 1:16:35
27 Alan Glendinning 1:26:23
28 Phillip Hoare 1:39:00
29 Rosemary Johnson 1:46:21
30 Steve Beuerman 1:47:59
31 Brad & Alex Wetmore 2:01:34
32 Terry Gleason 2:16:21
François Léonard DNF
Tom Edwards DNF
Gavin Wyatt-Mair DNF
George Minarik DNF
Leslie Minarik DNF
Brownwen Caplinger DNF
Trinka Gillis DNF
Stephanie Maclean DNF
Second Course
Daniel Sebo 58:34
Rosenzweig family 1:05:41
Nancy Lindeman DNF
Third Course
Shura Kretchetov 1:03:24
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DNF
= Did not finish (one or more controls
missed)
DNS
= Did not start
DSQ
= Disqualified
MSP
= Mispunched (one or more incorrect
controls)
OVT
= Overtime
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