Pacheco State Park
Date: (Sun.) Apr. 26, 2026
Location: Hollister, CA
Event Director: 
- 650.421.6457
Course Setter: Misha Kreslavsky
Type: B; Eight standard point-to-point courses for beginners through advanced orienteers; beginners and non-members are welcome; free beginner instruction will be available (This is a replacement for the canceled Huddart Park event.)
Related Event Information
WinSplits Results (http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/show_event.asp?id=111884) Attackpoint Results (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_60794) RouteGadget – Introduction RouteGadget – This Event (http://baoc.org/gadget/cgi/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=578) Event Announcement
Event Write-Up
By , Event Director
We had a great day of orienteering at Pacheco State Park as about 70 people braved the chilly temperatures, and made the drive out to this beautiful park, even with 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 event at short notice, after the Huddart Park event 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 reliable and hard-working crews — 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 event at the Presidio of San Francisco. See you all there.
Many thanks,
James
Course Setter's Comment
And of course, great thanks to James Arthurton who struggled for the Huddart Park permit, and after the sad failure promptly organized the Pacheco replacement. 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 Kreslavsky
Results
Pacheco State Park
Hollister, CA
Sunday, April 26, 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=111884) and on Attackpoint (https://www.attackpoint.org/eventdetail.jsp/event_60794).
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=578). (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 Director:
- Thanks to event director James Arthurton and course setter Misha Kreslavsky for a great event in the drizzling rain. It kept the attendance down, along with the remote location, but it didn't dampen the spirits of those who came down (or up in the case of the Turlock NJROTC)!
- – Jeff Lanam, E-Punch Director
Please tell and the if anything needs to be changed.
Preliminary Results
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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DNF = Did not finish (one or more controls missed)
DNS = Did not start