It was a partly sunny day and by mid-afternoon the temperature reached into the 70's.  It turned out to be an excellent day for orienteering.  The only complaint that I heard was about the bugs; there were approximately one billion gnats in residence around the registration/start area.

This was our National Orienteering Day event and we tried to attact as many newcomers as we could.  We seemed to have done a pretty good job as we had a lot of participation on our beginning courses and a lot of action in the instruction areas.  We provided two White courses and some of the newcomers tried both of them; this was what we had hoped would happen.  Others tried a White and then a Yellow course; those who did found the yellow a much harder course.

We had two courses that we don't offer at most of our meets.  We had a Brown course - the shortest version of a course that requires expert skills.  It was only 3.91 km long but provided some interesting challenges jucging by the finishing times.  We also had a Line course - participants had to follow a 4.8 km twisting and turning line and find the controls that were on the line (they were not marked on the map).  This proved to be a fairly difficult task as no one found all the controls on the line.  A time penalty system was used for controls that were missed on the course.  It would have been good to have a few more participants on the Brown and Line courses, although we did attract one person from SLOC (I'm not quite sure how).

We also added one new membership at the meet.  The Holsing's have joined the club; welcome Rodger and Candy.  And congratulations to our three door prize winners:  Demaund Copeland, Tom Gray, and Matthew Mosteller.  Prizes courtesy of Orienteering USA.

Jim Wolfe was meet director.  Thanks to Ray Wygonik, Mary Roland, Jennifer Livingston and Laurie Opila for running Registration.  Thanks to Sherry Shank, Dave Torick, and Ray Wygonik for handling start/finish.  Thanks to Joe Logan and Bryon Roland for doing instruction. And thanks to Jennifer Livingston, Dave Torick and Alexis Rzewski for helping with control pickup.

Here are the photos that Alexis took at the event.

Our next meet will be at Boyce Park on October 3.
 

White East    Course        2.44 km     10 controls
 
 

Troop 375 Ligonier (7)	BSA	38:00
Luca Rzewski	WPOC	40:05
Troop 183 Dads (2)	BSA	51:20
Emma Livingston (2)	WPOC	61:50
Boy Scouts (5)	BSA	62:43
Cole Frederick	BSA	73:50
Xtream Team (6)		73:55
Troop 183 Serpents (6)	BSA	83:30
The Jones' (2)		94:30
Pribanic (4)  allowed only to do 5 controls  28:20		DNF

White West    Course        2.50 km     10 controls
 
 

AG 2  (3)	Gallatin	47:57
Mina & Magiur Birkeland	FANA	53:29
Boy Scouts (5)	BSA	62:50
AG 1  (3)	Gallatin	73:54
Emma Livingston (2)	WPOC	77:50
Extreme Team (6)		86:35
Hiro Stone (2)	Pack 40	88:33
Mark Gaydos (5)	Pack 40	89:37
Opferman (5)		106:44
Rodger & Candy Holsing	WPOC	122:05

Yellow Course        3.49 km        10 controls
 
 

Kari Fladmark	FANA	36:00
AG 2   (3)	Gallatin	103:20
Anne & Kathy	WPOC	112:30
Christel Turungan & Sarah Popiel	IUP	116:30
Abby Shaw & Deirdre Bruno	IUP	118:30
Allie Nunn & Melissa Zehe	IUP	120:30
Trail Blazers (3)  missed controls #8 and #10     140:55	Gallatin	DNF
Kimi Kozak & Erica Panick  found only control #1	IUP	DNF

Brown Course        3.91 km    10 controls
 
 

Dave Torick	WPOC	70:21
Joe Logan	WPOC	74:34
Dan Marincel	SLOC	85:33
Sherry Shank	WPOC	96:27
David Ross		175:28
Barbara Johnstone	WPOC	209:10
Jim Trautmann  found only 4 controls	WPOC	DNF

Line Course        14 controls    (about 4.8 km)   10 minute penalty for each missed control up to five
 
 

Name	Club	Missed	Return	Penalty	Total Time
Jim Trautmann	WPOC	1	103:03	10:00	113:03
Alexis Rzewski - second try forwards	WPOC	5	130:50	50:00	180:50
Chris Scanga		3	189:30	30:00	219:30
Tom & Linda Gray & Dan Bigart	WPOC	1	236:12	10:00	246:12
Alexis & Luca Rzewski  backward	WPOC	8	85:48	DSQ	DSQ