Pacheco State Park 2026

Apr 26, 2026 (Sun)

BAOC

Pacheco State Park Hollister, CA

Director: James Arthurton (650.421.6457)
Course Setter: Misha Kreslavsky

Type B: Regular local. Generally provides the standard seven courses (White, Yellow, Orange, Brown, Green, Red, Blue)

Replacement for the canceled Huddart Park event; 8 standard point-to-point courses for beginners through advanced orienteers; beginners and non-members are welcome; free beginner instruction will be available

Past events:
2025 • 2019 • 2018 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2009 • 2009 • 2009

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Event Write-Up

We had a great day of orienteering last Sunday at Pacheco State Park as about 70 people braved the chilly temperatures and made the drive out to this beautiful park, with even one competitor who had come all the way from England. The green and red courses were particularly competitive with a lot of very close times.

I want to give a huge shout out to Misha Kreslavsky, possibly the hardest working man in the BAOC at the moment, who not only had to do this course at short notice, after Huddart Park was cancelled, but who had also just finished working on the Joe Grant mapping! The one comment I heard more than any other on Sunday was “great course” and that is a testament to his hard work and expertise.

Thanks to our stalwart registration team of Sarah Williams and Steve Haas, with help from Dennis Wildfogel and to Jeff Lanam and Phil Lacroute for running E-punch. It is very easy to take their efforts for granted but we are lucky to have such a reliable and hard-working crew and it made my job as event director so much easier.

Thanks to Ginny Wailes and Weichun Fong for helping with setup in the early blustery conditions, to Graham Brew and Dan Greene for doing beginner clinics (and even one more advanced clinic) and to Jeff Kabel for doing the beginner starts.

A few additional shout-outs:

  • Ouri Karni - thanks for the now obligatory poster (plus the one you did for Huddart too)
  • Chuck Spalding - for keeping everything up-to-date and shipshape on the website
  • Tapio Karras - for RouteGadget support
  • Graham Brew - for ongoing support and advice, especially with the last minute change of venue
  • Nathan Aeschleman - the Pacheco State Park ranger for approving our permit so quickly and being so friendly and accommodating to the club

Finally, Tac Sugiyama, Matteo Guareschi, Misha Kreslavsky and I did the control pickup and then Matteo packed up all the equipment into his car for the next meet at Presidio. See you all there.

Many thanks,
James, Event Director

And of course, great thanks to James Arthurton who struggled for the Huddart Park permit, and after the sad failure promptly organized all these. In addition to dealing with the long Event Director's to-do list, he printed the maps and hauled water to the course, which was a great help!

Misha, Course Setter

Results

WinSplits RouteGadget AttackPoint
RouteGadget Introduction

White ↑

White Course                (2.0 km, 60 m [3.1%] climb, 6 controls)  
                                                     Time     Time  
   Pl  Name                      Club      Time     Behind    Lost
    1  Wayne Cottrell            LAOC      13:06              0:00  
    2  Harry & Tom               BAOC      52:16    39:10    18:22
    3  Nancy Lindeman            BAOC    1:06:08    53:02    10:14

Yellow ↑

Yellow Course               (2.3 km, 200 m [8.4%] climb, 9 controls)  
                                                     Time     Time  
   Pl  Name                      Club      Time     Behind    Lost
    1  Jonas De Vre              BAOC      30:59              3:08  
    2  Cesar Velaquezz           BAOC      33:11     2:12     2:52
    3  Julian Conradi            BAOC      36:24     5:25     8:02
    4  Oliver Conradi            BAOC      43:37    12:38     4:29
    5  Natalia Montez            BAOC      48:13    17:14     4:09
    6  Elizabeth Schuler       Turlock     53:51    22:52    12:52
    7  David Sodaro              BAOC    1:00:58    29:59    14:09

Orange ↑

Orange Course               (2.8 km, 195 m [6.9%] climb, 8 controls)
                                                     Time     Time  
   Pl  Name                      Club      Time     Behind    Lost
    1  Joshua Avery                        45:22              3:46  
    2  Andre & Lorana Montanez   BAOC      45:42     0:20     4:55
    3  Wayne Cottrell            LAOC      48:15     2:53     4:26  (2nd course after White)
    4  Steven Rodrigues          BAOC      51:26     6:04     5:13
    5  Marcello Montanez         BAOC      58:59    13:37    10:31
    6  Little Horse              BAOC    1:14:39    29:17     6:59
    7  William Nguyen            BAOC    1:19:54    34:32    12:57
    8  Kendall Bagley                    1:20:33    35:11     8:50
    9  Clara Staats                      1:28:25    43:03    29:19
       Karen Murphy              LAOC      DNS

Silver ↑

Silver Course               (2.6 km, 100 m [3.8%] climb, 5 controls)  
                                                     Time     Time  
   Pl  Name                      Club      Time     Behind    Lost
    1  George Minarik            BAOC      57:01              0:39  
    2  Wayne Cottrell            LAOC    1:18:02    21:01    23:33  (3rd course after Orange)
    3  Leslie Minarik            BAOC    1:18:34    21:33    12:23
    4  Jeff Lanam                BAOC    1:18:50    21:49     0:48
    5  Dan Greene                BAOC    1:27:10    30:09     4:34
       Dennis Wildfogel          BAOC      DNF

Brown ↑

Brown Course                (3.8 km, 165 m [4.4%] climb, 9 controls)  
                                                     Time     Time  
   Pl  Name                      Club      Time     Behind    Lost
    1  Steph Maclean             BAOC      50:40              1:12  
    2  Chuck Spalding            BAOC      52:36     1:56     0:00
    3  Olga Kraght               BAOC      55:20     4:40     0:00
    4  Steve Haas                BAOC      59:22     8:42     1:17
    5  Ginny Wailes              BAOC    1:01:06    10:26     4:50
    6  Johanna Merriss           BAOC    1:08:43    18:03     7:49
    7  Steven Rodrigues          BAOC    1:13:27    22:47    14:17  (2nd course after Orange)
    8  Phillip Hoare             BAOC    1:22:12    31:32     2:46
    9  Yana                      BAOC    1:43:32    52:52    12:38
   10  Spaghetti Monster                 1:47:45    57:05    16:35
       Gavin Wyatt-Mair          BAOC      DNS

Green ↑

Green Course                (4.6 km, 255 m [5.5%] climb, 10 controls)  
                                                     Time     Time  
   Pl  Name                      Club      Time     Behind    Lost
    1  Evgeny Kachanovsky        BAOC      49:52              0:00  
    2  Tapio Karras              BAOC      51:20     1:28     0:36
    3  Derek Maclean             BAOC    1:00:15    10:23     0:00
    4  Marie-Josée Parayre       BAOC    1:01:05    11:13     0:49
    5  Phil Lacroute             BAOC    1:01:47    11:55     4:14
    6  Tac Sugiyama              BAOC    1:02:00    12:08     0:52
    7  Matthias Kohler           BAOC    1:05:04    15:12     5:53
    8  Kevin Henry               BAOC    1:07:14    17:22    11:54
    9  Olga Boiarynova           BAOC    1:16:18    26:26     5:28
   10  Gary Kraght               BAOC    1:18:46    28:54     2:13
   11  Enxun Wei                 BAOC    1:26:17    36:25    17:55
   12  Luyuan Lin                BAOC    1:47:05    57:13    14:30
   13  Carl Williams             BAOC    2:00:07    70:15     9:15

Red ↑

Red Course                  (6.3 km, 380 m [6.1%] climb, 10 controls)  
                                                     Time     Time  
   Pl  Name                      Club      Time     Behind    Lost
    1  Paul Roome                BAOC    1:06:17              0:00  
    2  Graham Brew               BAOC    1:23:12    16:55     6:48
    3  Andrej Masalkov           BAOC    1:23:51    17:34     3:29
    4  Nikolay Chukanov          BAOC    1:24:45    18:28     6:28
    5  John Richardson           BAOC    1:25:08    18:51     7:06
    6  Deron van Hoff            BAOC    1:27:05    20:48     2:31
    7  Mattias Mattsson          BAOC    1:32:48    26:31     1:12
    8  Matt Eaton                WAOC    1:51:45    45:28    26:25
    9  Scott Sampson             BAOC    2:26:34    80:17    31:02
   10  Contour Lives             NAVX    2:32:23    86:06    39:27

Blue ↑

Blue Course                 (7.4 km, 445 m [6.0%] climb, 13 controls)  
                                                     Time     Time  
   Pl  Name                      Club      Time     Behind    Lost
    1  Greg Khanlarov            BAOC    1:16:30              4:04  
    2  François Léonard          BAOC    1:17:36     1:06     1:25
    3  Mikkel Conradi            BAOC    1:21:52     5:22     4:09
    4  Jeffrey Kabel             BAOC    1:22:49     6:19     1:16
    5  Emily Ellsworth           BAOC    1:31:42    15:12     6:44
    6  Weichun Fong              BAOC    1:34:20    17:50     5:48
    7  Wayne Staats              BAOC    1:37:03    20:33    16:14
    8  Tom De Vre                BAOC    1:37:41    21:11     0:00
    9  Lubomir Šebo              BAOC    1:38:46    22:16     4:29
   10  Matteo Guareschi          BAOC    1:41:23    24:53     5:35
   11  Theo Verhoeven            BAOC    1:51:24    34:54     4:42
   12  Rex Winterbottom          BAOC    1:54:03    37:33     5:13
   13  Kris Andersen             GCO     2:34:20    77:50     6:39
DNF = Did not finish (one or more controls missed)
DNS = Did not start
DSQ = Disqualified
MSP = Mispunched (one or more incorrect controls)
OVT = Overtime
Updated: May 20, 2026, 9:27 PM PDT • Edit