Sunol Regional Wilderness
Date: (Sun.) Oct. 29, 2017
Location: Sunol, CA
Event Directors: - 925.862.2978,
Course Setter: Misha Kreslavsky
Type: B; Standard 7-course B-meet in a beautiful, but challenging park
Related Event Information
Event Announcement WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=52355) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=401)
Event Write-Up
By , Event Director
We originally had planned for an April or May event, however the Park District prefers that orienteering events be held October through January. Spring months are very busy at Sunol, with attendance often exceeding 2000 visitors on weekend days.
I was hoping for rain prior to the event, to soften the ground, but that was not in the cards. In fact we had unusually hot weather in the week leading up to the event; fortunately the temperature dropped significantly on Sunday and we had partial cloud cover. Perfect orienteering weather!
The cooler weather brought a strong turnout. I had anticipated 150–200, but we had about 260 in attendance. Two groups of Navy Junior ROTC (one from Nevada and one from the Central Valley) and the Berkeley High School Orienteering Team probably account for much of the extra attendance. It’s great to see high-school students seriously interested in orienteering. Many are running (and doing well) on advanced courses.
All of the courses were designed by Misha Kreslavsky. Misha also updated some portions of the map, and personally set each control on every course. There were many compliments from the advanced runners on the course design.
The complete results are posted below. Here are the winners for each course:
- White: Greg Mandler
- Yellow: Collin Ballek, Berkeley High
- Orange: Michael Johnson-Theiss, CHS-NJROTC
- Brown: Tobias Tornqvist, BAOC
- Green: Tapio Karras, BAOC
- Red: François Léonard, BAOC
- Blue: Matias Arola
Lost and Found
- Pair of orange-tinted safety glasses
- Base-plate compass. Possibly belonging to Ida Tornqvist (Yellow course print-out was near the compass)
Thanks to Volunteers
Orienteering events could never happen without a significant volunteer effort. BAOC members always step up when needed on event day. Special thanks to Assistant Event Director Ján Jerguš.
- Registration: Steve Haas, Jitka Hiscox, Gary Kraght
- E-Punch: Jeff Lanam, Evan Custer, Mark Blair, Dennis Wildfogel, Rosemary Johnson
- Starts: Marie-Josée Parayre, Vicki Woolworth, Troy Kaji, Ján Jerguš, Steve Harrison
- Beginner Clinics: Peter Graube, Gavin Wyatt-Mair
- Control Pick-Up: Peter Graube, Steve Haas, Steve Gregg, Misha Kreslavsky; Ján, Adrianna, & Gabriella Jerguš
- Early Runner: Mikkel Conradi
- Refreshments: Ján, Adrianna, & Gabriella Jerguš
- Set-Up/Break-Down: Gavis Wyatt-Mair; Ján, Adrianna, & Gabriella Jerguš; Jay Hann; Dennis Wildfogel; Jeff Lanam
- Course Setter: Misha Kreslavsky
- Vetter: Nick Corsano
- Map Printing: Bob Cooley
- BAOC Website: Chuck Spalding
- Insurance: Marina Keating
- Park Rangers: Gordon Willey, Jon Gatti, Randy Verser, Matt
Thanks so much to you all for another successful event.
Results
Sunol Regional Wilderness
Sunol, CA
Sunday, October 29, 2017
White Course Yellow Course Orange 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=52355).
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=401). (Use of RouteGadget is explained here.)
White Course (2.4 km, 60 m climb, 12 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Greg Mandler 19:23 2 Adrian Feinberg Berkeley High 26:54 +7:31 3 Jessica Johnson 27:25 +8:02 4 Plume & Sills 32:57 +13:34 5 Michaela Ballek 37:43 +18:20 6 Team Bluebirds GSA 45:53 +26:30 7 Seth Jacobs 50:07 +30:44 8 Maya Portales 52:40 +33:17 9 Natalie Chang BAOC 54:36 +35:13 10 Jeff & Nathan Wang 54:41 +35:18 11 Sonja Breeding 54:43 +35:20 12 Jimmy & Mai Chung 54:49 +35:26 13 Gunnar Lucas 57:28 +38:05 14 Sandra & Duafal, Maia Moffet 59:05 +39:42 15 Zachary Arkahipov 1:05:12 +45:49 16 Lisa, Austin Tiano Donna 1:08:15 +48:52 17 Evelyn Carlson 1:08:27 +49:04 18 Kyle Halliday BAOC 1:08:29 +49:06 19 Diane & Moffat, Victoria Hall BAOC 1:13:22 +53:59 20 Frihauf family 1:30:59 +71:36 21 Adrenne Bowden BAOC 1:31:03 +71:40 22 Olivia Carlson 1:43:02 +83:39 23 Carel & David Peterson 1:49:04 +89:41 Natalia Lukomski BAOC DNF Rikke Ertmann BAOC DNF Venya Karpelevitch DNF
Yellow Course (1.9 km, 120 m climb, 10 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Collin Ballek Berkeley High 26:25 2 Greg Mandler 32:23 +5:58 3 Ida Tornqvist BAOC 36:46 +10:21 4 Anthony Meyer CHS-NJROTC 37:45 +11:20 5 Trinity Harvey CHS-NJROTC 39:16 +12:51 6 Mark Schnider 39:35 +13:10 7 Christine Brew BAOC 40:34 +14:09 8 Christopher Baerheim THS-NJROTC 41:01 +14:36 9 Sarah Howard 41:24 +14:59 10 Yuki Yasue Berkeley High 43:07 +16:42 11 Christopher Bush CHS-NJROTC 43:24 +16:59 12 Jessica Johnson 43:44 +17:19 13 Susan Want BAOC 45:28 +19:03 14 Manuel Hoyos-Velasquez CHS-NJROTC 46:51 +20:26 15 Nic Gunter 51:01 +24:36 16 Carlos Montanez THS-NJROTC 51:13 +24:48 17 Joseph Knapp 52:08 +25:43 18 Teresa & Isabel Souto 1:00:59 +34:34 19 Jenna Booth 1:02:40 +36:15 20 Lori Topley 1:03:55 +37:30 21 Eric, Richard, Neilson, Matt, Kos 1:08:07 +41:42 22 Peretz BAOC 1:10:31 +44:06 23 Judy Howell 1:26:11 +59:46 24 Team Snakes 1:34:50 +68:25 25 Judy Koehler BAOC 2:46:13 +139:48 Chandru Vittal DNF Ivania Lozano CHS-NJROTC DNF Zach Samatovicz DNF
Orange Course (3.7 km, 150 m climb, 8 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Michael Johnson-Theiss CHS-NJROTC 1:00:28 2 Wayne Staats BAOC 1:00:30 +0:02 3 Bailey Jacobs CHS-NJROTC 1:06:25 +5:57 4 Gavin Plume 1:07:21 +6:53 5 Kyle Navarro CHS-NJROTC 1:12:08 +11:40 6 Winifred Scott 1:13:12 +12:44 7 Olivia & Ari Backholm 1:18:59 +18:31 8 Darian Montalvo CHS-NJROTC 1:19:27 +18:59 9 Kyle Holloway CHS-NJROTC 1:21:40 +21:12 10 Julia Wagner, Barnaby 1:22:07 +21:39 11 Greg Mandler 1:28:18 +27:50 12 Judith Barish 1:43:16 +42:48 13 Solomon Walker-Barish Berkeley High 1:45:17 +44:49 14 Anika Soulier CHS-NJROTC 1:49:18 +48:50 15 Bryar Fancher CHS-NJROTC 1:55:18 +54:50 16 Tennant & Yeats 2:01:16 +60:48 17 Carlos Gomez THS-NJROTC 2:16:06 +75:38 18 Tom De Vre BAOC 2:19:40 +79:12 19 John & Susan Wilson Ames 2:21:14 +80:46 20 Kaitlyn Spees 2:21:34 +81:06 21 Jonathan Segev 2:23:17 +82:49 22 Roxane & Tim Edwards BAOC 2:26:14 +85:46 23 Jonathan Kumar THS-NJROTC 2:39:29 +99:01 24 Tony Cruz THS-NJROTC 2:45:24 +104:56 25 Rex & Thadeus Santos 3:10:53 +130:25 26 Howard & Aidan Chong 3:13:25 +132:57 Dotan Knaan DNF John & Amy Moellering DNF Mack Cuttitta BAOC DNF Nicholson & Wallace DNF Scott & Maria Jenson DNF
Brown Course (3.6 km, 150 m climb, 14 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Tobias Tornqvist BAOC 40:19 2 Steve Haas BAOC 52:20 +12:01 3 Dennis Wildfogel BAOC 52:47 +12:28 4 Jitka Hiscox BAOC 58:13 +17:54 5 Rich Parker BAOC 59:10 +18:51 6 Amalie Ertmann BAOC 1:00:33 +20:14 7 Dan Greene BAOC 1:08:16 +27:57 8 Bob Cooley BAOC 1:10:14 +29:55 9 Sheila Cotter BAOC 1:16:16 +35:57 10 Evan Custer BAOC 1:16:25 +36:06 10 Noah Vin 1:16:25 +36:06 12 Roy Want BAOC 1:17:42 +37:23 13 Mark Blair BAOC 1:23:57 +43:38 14 Johanna Merriss BAOC 1:26:30 +46:11 15 Siqing Yi BAOC 1:30:45 +50:26 16 Gemma Fa-Kaji BAOC 1:37:49 +57:30 17 Ben Jacobson Berkeley High 1:38:53 +58:34 18 Briana Sanchez CHS-NJROTC 1:43:43 +63:24 19 Janet Petersen BAOC 1:45:25 +65:06 20 Smithlien & Wheeler 2:00:28 +80:09 21 Steve Beuerman BAOC 2:27:17 +106:58 22 Kira Riley THS-NJROTC 2:31:45 +111:26 23 Maekinzie Mauck THS-NJROTC 2:37:43 +117:24 24 Nancy Lindeman BAOC 4:16:31 +216:12 Corrine Alicea THS-NJROTC DNF Pia Kamlin BAOC DNF Rosemary Johnson BAOC DNF
Green Course (4.9 km, 200 m climb, 14 controls)
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind 1 Tapio Karras BAOC 58:54 2 Steve Gregg BAOC 1:10:28 +11:34 3 Werner Haag BAOC 1:10:32 +11:38 4 Derek Maclean BAOC 1:13:38 +14:44 5 Stan Barrett BAOC 1:14:00 +15:06 6 Marie-Josée Parayre BAOC 1:18:25 +19:31 7 Matthias Kohler BAOC 1:21:15 +22:21 8 Mark Petersen BAOC 1:21:43 +22:49 9 Katie Petersen BAOC 1:21:54 +23:00 10 Denis Kourakin BAOC 1:22:00 +23:06 11 Chris Berggren CHS-NJROTC 1:28:56 +30:02 12 Jared Deselms CHS-NJROTC 1:29:39 +30:45 13 Daniel Sebo BAOC 1:30:02 +31:08 14 Christopher Paluch CHS-NJROTC 1:33:38 +34:44 15 Stephanie Maclean BAOC 1:35:21 +36:27 16 Kyle Ketten CHS-NJROTC 1:36:52 +37:58 17 Davy Williams BAOC 1:38:01 +39:07 18 Greg Ehrensing BAOC 1:39:20 +40:26 19 Carl Williams BAOC 1:46:50 +47:56 20 Jarrod Meyer CHS-NJROTC 1:47:59 +49:05 21 Ramandeep Singh THS-NJROTC 1:59:51 +60:57 22 Lookfar 2:00:11 +61:17 23 Parker Higgens THS-NJROTC 2:01:22 +62:28 24 Nathan Booth Berkeley High 2:03:22 +64:28 25 Olga Kraght BAOC 2:06:31 +67:37 26 Eli Svoboda Berkeley High 2:07:22 +68:28 27 Team Pandas 2:13:51 +74:57 28 Chris Delp BAOC 2:19:52 +80:58 29 Judy & Tom Cronin BAOC 2:34:30 +95:36 30 Daniel Ingram CHS-NJROTC 2:47:31 +108:37 31 Ethan Boehm BAOC 2:59:42 +120:48 Blaise Henry, Eric Mitchell DNF Drew Cannon BAOC DNF Gabriel Galster THS-NJROTC DNF
Red Course (6.2 km, 290 m climb, 19 controls)
Pl Name Club Time Behind 1 François Léonard BAOC 59:22 2 Stephen Granger-Bevin BAOC 1:09:48 +10:26 3 Paul Ort BAOC 1:10:16 +10:54 4 Mattias Vangbo BAOC 1:11:48 +12:26 5 Nikolay Chukanov BAOC 1:14:19 +14:57 6 Lubomir Sebo BAOC 1:21:35 +22:13 7 Stephen Harrison BAOC 1:21:55 +22:33 8 Graham Brew BAOC 1:21:56 +22:34 9 Kim Van Berkel BAOC 1:23:20 +23:58 10 Ralf Burgert BAOC 1:38:46 +39:24 11 Luc Poppe BAOC 1:50:43 +51:21 12 Theo Verhoven BAOC 1:53:21 +53:59 13 Peter Graube BAOC 2:07:50 +68:28 14 Michael O'Kelly BAOC 2:20:23 +81:01
Blue Course (7.6 km, 390 m climb, 26 controls)
Pl Name Club Time Behind 1 Matias Arola BAOC 1:17:48 2 Huon Wilson BAOC 1:22:58 +5:10 3 Mikkel Conradi BAOC 1:27:55 +10:07 4 Aron Walker BAOC 1:28:45 +10:57 4 Greg Khanlarov BAOC 1:28:45 +10:57 6 Travis Parker BAOC 1:51:49 +34:01 7 Fyodor Konkov BAOC 2:03:38 +45:50 8 Penny DeMoss BAOC 2:13:03 +55:15 9 Greg Favor BAOC 2:17:25 +59:37 10 Gavin Wyatt-Mair BAOC 2:28:17 +70:29 11 Tom Proulx 2:49:23 +91:35 12 Scott Sampson BAOC 2:52:25 +94:37 Joe Maffei BAOC MSP
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DNF = Did not finish (missed one or more controls)
MSP = Mispunched (one or more controls wrong)