BAOC | Joseph D. Grant County Park

Despite cool, blistery weather with occasional rain showers, some 100 orienteers came to enjoy our return to the Joe Grant North map for the first time since 2015. With the new Lidar contours and extensive mapping thanks to Misha Kreslavsky, it sure felt like a new venue, even for the old-timers.

RouteGadget was popular among participants, with 22 routes uploaded so far. There is an especially close race among the top-3 finishers on the Blue course. You can enjoy the animation on RouteGadget. Select GPS routes for Greg, Francois, and Mikkel. Then, click "Load animation", "View routes, and "Start".

Our events depend on volunteers. Here are the volunteers who made this event possible:

Course Setter: Tac Sugiyama
Mapper: Misha Kreslavsky
Vetting: Misha Kreslavsky, Tapio Karras
Assembly Area Setup: Graham Brew
Event Registration: Sarah Williams, Steve Haas, Sheila Cotter, Chuck Spalding, Matthias Kohler
Beginner Clinics: Dan Greene
White, Yellow & Silver Starts: Graham Brew, Gordon Bloom, Kat Lan
Advanced Starts: Tac Sugiyama, Matteo Guareschi, Emily Ellsworth, Brian Ritchken, Werner Haag
Early Runner: Mikkel Conradi
E-punch: Phil Lacroute, Misha Kreslavsky, John Blakkan
Control Pickup: Tac Sugiyama, Misha Kreslavsky, James Arthurton, Theo Verhoeven, Virginia Wailes, Derek Maclean
Assembly Area Take Down: James Arthurton, Dennis Wildfogel

Please let me know if I accidentally missed anyone.

Thank you also to Joe Grant County Park and Ranger Joshua Barela for allowing us to use the park and for smooth interaction during the permitting process.

Misplaced Yellow control

We apologize to the Yellow course runners for the misplaced control #5.

The Course Setter originally had the control on a feature close to where the control was hung. Due to the significant growth of poison oak around the original site, the location was moved to a nearby stream bend at the last minute. When the final course map was prepared for printing, the control was accidentally marked on a different stream bend. The control was hung at the stream bend near the original site without checking the final printed map. The lesson learned is that every control site needs to be taped, and the maps, as well as the control sites, must be properly vetted.

Luckily, all the Yellow runners, after stopping their search of the marked site, found the control at the other stream bend some 150 meters further down the trail. Only the very last Yellow finisher of the day mentioned the misplaced control and pointed out where they had eventually found it. Otherwise, we would not have known anything about the misplacement.

Thank you all for coming!
Tapio

from Phil Lacroute

A little rain never stopped an orienteer, and the weather made for some enjoyable running in the green hills at Joe Grant today (although maybe the afternoon downpours were not ideal for those of us who stayed to vote on bylaw amendments afterwards!). Many, many thanks to event director Tapio Karras, course setter Tac Sugiyma, and mapper Misha Kreslavsky for all the work to put on the event. I’d also like to thank Misha for staffing ePunch while I ran my course, and John Blakkan for arriving early to help with ePunch setup.

Here are the preliminary results. Please note the Yellow course was affected by a misplaced control.

Blue (15 / 15)                   Time    Behind  Time lost
1. Greg Khanlarov       BAOC  1:29:07                 0:00 
2. Francois Leonard     BAOC  1:29:53     +0:46       0:00
3. Mikkel Conradi       BAOC  1:35:01     +5:54       0:00
4. Ari Backholm         BAOC  1:49:15    +20:08       5:37
5. Wayne Staats         BAOC  1:50:32    +21:25       8:03
6. Ouri Karni           BAOC  1:53:22    +24:15      17:34
7. Lubomir Sebo         BAOC  1:55:43    +26:36       2:19
8. Andrew Smith         None  2:01:53    +32:46      20:51
9. Weichun Fong         BAOC  2:04:20    +35:13      12:39
10. Brian Ritchken      BAOC  2:05:26    +36:19      18:07
11. Tom De Vre          BAOC  2:05:42    +36:35      17:33
12. Emily Ellsworth     BAOC  2:09:40    +40:33      16:24
13. Matteo Guareschi    BAOC  2:13:02    +43:55      17:48
14. Contour lives       NAVX  3:06:25  +1:37:18      20:21
15. James Arthurton     BAOC  3:14:10  +1:45:03    1:08:39

Red (9 / 9)                      Time    Behind  Time lost
1. NIKOLAY CHUKANOV     BAOC  1:15:37                 0:00
2. Mattias Vangbo       BAOC  1:18:18     +2:41       2:10
3. Andrej Masalkov      BAOC  1:24:39     +9:02       3:43
4. Graham Brew          BAOC  1:26:57    +11:20       9:09
5. John Richardson      BAOC  1:31:50    +16:13       8:52
6. Hirotake Komatsu     BAOC  1:32:21    +16:44       9:33
7. Mattias Mattsson     BAOC  1:45:08    +29:31       9:51
8. Theo Verhoeven       BAOC  2:06:59    +51:22      27:46
   Scott Sampson        BAOC      DNF

Green (6 / 6)                    Time    Behind  Time lost
1. Phil Lacroute        BAOC  1:22:39                 4:47
2. Matthias Kohler      BAOC  1:23:12     +0:33       4:36
3. David Colman         BAOC  1:27:30     +4:51      14:05
4. Marie-Josee Parayre  BAOC  1:29:46     +7:07      10:46
5. Stan Barrett         BAOC  1:30:15     +7:36      16:56
6. Gary Kraght          BAOC  1:57:03    +34:24       9:47

Brown (13 / 13)                  Time    Behind  Time lost
1. Peter Graham         BAOC    44:27                 2:25
2. Werner Haag          BAOC    50:55     +6:28       4:59
3. Victor Frolov        BAOC  1:03:48    +19:21      10:51
4. Chuck Spalding       BAOC  1:11:46    +27:19      12:17
5. Steve Haas           BAOC  1:13:54    +29:27       5:19
6. Sheila Cotter        BAOC  1:15:47    +31:20       9:07
7. Jinwen Xu            BAOC  1:18:53    +34:26      11:05
8. Johanna Merriss      BAOC  1:25:51    +41:24      18:55
9. Zhenbo Bian          BAOC  1:30:58    +46:31      31:41
   Olga Boiarynova      BAOC      MSP
   Virginia Wailes      BAOC      MSP
   Austin O`Boyle       BAOC      DNF
   Stephanie Maclean    BAOC      DNF

Silver (14 / 14)                 Time    Behind  Time lost
1. Kat Lan              BAOC  1:01:09                 7:18
2. Dennis Wildfogel     BAOC  1:03:06     +1:57       7:37
3. Sarah Williams       BAOC  1:06:10     +5:01       8:54
4. George Minarik       BAOC  1:08:17     +7:08       5:03
5. Evan Custer          BAOC  1:12:26    +11:17       5:30
6. Scott Aster          BAOC  1:19:46    +18:37       2:14
7. Steven Rodrigues     BAOC  1:26:25    +25:16      20:19
8. Dan Greene           BAOC  1:31:59    +30:50       9:09
9. Leslie Minarik       BAOC  1:56:18    +55:09      28:07
10. Terry Hunt &
    Kevin Hinkley       BAOC  2:02:57  +1:01:48      44:36
11. Gordon Bloom        BAOC  2:09:40  +1:08:31      37:15
    Nick Corsano        BAOC      DNF
    Neville Fernandes   BAOC      DNF
    Nicholsons          None      DNF

Orange (3 / 3)                   Time    Behind   Time lost
1. Joshua Avery         None  1:13:30                  3:40
2. Anna Staats          None  1:53:03    +39:33       32:06
   George Wailes        BAOC      DNS

Yellow (9 / 9)                   Time    Behind   Time lost
1. Clara Staats         None  1:22:27                 12:04
2. Norie Komatsu        BAOC  1:27:20     +4:53       13:54
3. Troop Middle Seat    None  1:29:17     +6:50       16:42
4. 296 kicks            None  1:33:44    +11:17       23:57
5. Felix Wang           None  1:56:10    +33:43       36:57
6. Junying Shen         None  1:56:30    +34:03       36:29
7. Troop61611           None  2:09:48    +47:21       39:49
   Extremely good spartans None   DNF
   Jiayun Peng          None      DNF

White (3 / 3)                    Time    Behind   Time lost
1. Ashley Graham        BAOC    18:14                  0:00
2. Keira Graham         BAOC    22:50     +4:36        3:05
3. Troop 2019           None  1:02:03    +43:49       15:48
   Sean Luis            None      DNS
   Xianglong Hu         None      DNS

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