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Joseph D. Grant County Park

Date: (Sun.) Apr. 12, 2026
Location: San Jose, CA
Event Director: - 408.688.4482
Course Setter: Tac Sugiyama
Type: B; Standard 8-course event for beginners through advanced orienteers; beginners and non-members are welcome; free beginner instruction will be available; the BAOC 2026 AGM will be held at this event

Related Event Information

WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=111499) Attackpoint Results (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_60557) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=577) Event Announcement

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Event Write-Up

By , Event Director

Despite cool, blustery 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 (https://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=577&cID=1&kieli=). Select the GPS routes for Greg, François, and Mikkel. Then click "Load animation", "View routes, and "Start".

Our events depend on volunteers. Thank you to the following volunteers who made this event possible:

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!



Results

Joseph D. Grant County Park

San Jose, CA
Sunday, April 12, 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=111499) and on Attackpoint (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_60557).

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=577). (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 Lead: 
A little rain never stopped an orienteer, and the weather made for some enjoyable running in the green hills at Joe Grant (although maybe the afternoon downpours were not ideal for those of us who stayed to vote on bylaw amendments afterwards at the AGM!). 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 E-Punch while I ran my course, and John Blakkan for arriving early to help with E-Punch setup.
Note that the Yellow course was affected by a misplaced control.
– Phil Lacroute, E-Punch Lead

Please tell and the if anything needs to be changed.


Preliminary Results 

White Course                 (2.0 km, 30 m [1.5%] climb, 10 controls)  
                                                               Time  
   Pl  Name                       Club      Time     Behind    Lost
    1  Ashley Graham              BAOC      18:14               0:00  
    2  Keira Graham               BAOC      22:50     4:36      3:05
    3  Troop 2019                         1:02:03    43:49     15:48
       Sean Luis                            DNS                      
       Xianglong Hu                         DNS


Yellow Course                (3.1 km, 80 m [2.7%] climb, 10 controls)  
                                                               Time  
   Pl  Name                       Club      Time     Behind    Lost
    1  Clara Staats                       1:22:27              12:04  
    2  Norie Komatsu              BAOC    1:27:20     4:53     13:54
    3  Troop Middle Seat                  1:29:17     6:50     16:42
    4  296 Kicks                          1:33:44    11:17     23:57
    5  Felix Wang                         1:56:10    33:43     36:57
    6  Junying Shen                       1:56:30    34:03     36:29
    7  Troop 61611                        2:09:48    47:21     39:49
       Extremely Good Spartans              DNF                      
       Jiayun Peng                          DNF


Orange Course                (3.1 km, 90 m [2.9%] climb, 10 controls)
                                                               Time  
   Pl  Name                       Club      Time     Behind    Lost
    1  Joshua Avery                       1:13:30               3:40  
    2  Anna Staats                        1:53:03    39:33     32:06
       George Wailes              BAOC      DNS                      


Silver Course                (2.5 km, 110 m [4.4%] climb, 8 controls)  
                                                               Time  
   Pl  Name                       Club      Time     Behind    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                           DNF


Brown Course                 (3.5 km, 130 m [3.7%] climb, 12 controls)  
                                                               Time  
   Pl  Name                       Club      Time     Behind    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


Green Course                 (4.7 km, 180 m [3.8%] climb, 10 controls)  
                                                               Time  
   Pl  Name                       Club      Time     Behind    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-Josée 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


Red Course                   (5.9 km, 260 m [4.4%] climb, 11 controls)  
                                                               Time  
   Pl  Name                       Club      Time     Behind    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                      


Blue Course                  (7.6 km, 350 m [4.6%] climb, 14 controls)  
                                                               Time  
   Pl  Name                       Club      Time     Behind    Lost
    1  Greg Khanlarov             BAOC    1:29:07              0:00  
    2  François Léonard           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 Šebo               BAOC    1:55:43    26:36     2:19
    8  Andrew Smith                       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    68:39

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DNF = Did not finish (one or more controls missed)
DNS = Did not start
MSP = Mispunched (one or more incorrect controls)