For the second year in a row, it was a terrible weather day at Mingo Creek. Temperatures were in the low 40's with off and on rain. The conditions (combined with approach of hurricane Sandy) undoubted kept the attendance low. We had certainly hoped for a larger adventure racing turnout for the score courses. Aside from a lot of shivering and wet clothes, everyone seemed to have a good time.
Alexis Rzewski was the meet director. He designed the 2-hour and 4-hour score course by placing 35 controls over the entire span of the park. The most that anyone managed to reach was 18 of them. Although the number of participants was small, they certainly had varied approaches to finding the controls. Everyone of the controls was visited at least once, although the control most distant from the start (#21) was visited by only one person. Even with only six starts on the 2-hour score, those participants visited all but three of the controls (#21, #22, and #33). And with only five starts on the 4-hour score, those participants visited all but two controls (#13 and #14). Clearly, everyone had their own ideas on which way to go.
We also had a white and a yellow course. The yellow course offered participants the option to use electronic punching; however, only two people took advantage of that. Most stayed with the manual punching. Also, we had one new member join the club; welcome to Jamie Yoder.
Thanks to Jim Trautmann, Christy Freeman, Sherry Shank and Laurie Opila for running registration. Thanks to Barbara Johnstone for running start/finish. Thanks to Joe Logan for helping with instruction. Thanks to Andy Strat for setting up and running the electronic punching. Thanks to Joe Logan and Andy Strat for helping with control pick up.
You can see pictures from the Mingo Creek event take by Alexis here
Our next event is at Pine Ridge Park on
November 11. In addition to the orienteering, we will have a pot-luck
meal and hold our annual meeting.
White Course
1.9 km 65 m climb 8 controls
| Christy | WPOC | 30:56 |
| Al & Jake Champagne | 31:45 | |
| Hall (7) | BSA | 36:38 |
| Glenn Burke | 50:23 | |
| Alex Pilareit (4) | 51:45 | |
| Pollock (5) | BSA | 53:00 |
| Shawn & Mary Curry | 61:02 | |
| Tamara A. Ranalli (2) | 61>02 |
Yellow Course
4.2 km 125 m climb
12 controls
| Tony Garratt | SDO | 39:04 |
| Jen Livingston | WPOC | 76:43 |
| Luca Rzewski | WPOC | 82:45 |
| Barbara Johnstone | WPOC | 91:16 |
| Viva Kreis (3) | 99:30 | |
| Alex & Shelby Yawny | 114:06 | |
| Giuseppina Mecchia | WPOC | 121:15 |
| Taylor Strang & Lavender Woostrum found 6 controls in 126:10 | DNF |
2-Hour Score Course
35 controls Varying points per control
10 point penalty per minute late
| Name | Club | Controls | Time | Penalty | Score |
| Tony Garratt | SDO | 12 | 117:20 | 0 | 340 |
| Joe Logan | WPOC | 10 | 116:59 | 0 | 200 |
| Derrick Monahan | WPOC | 10 | 117:02 | 0 | 170 |
| Andy Strat (started about 1 hour late) | WPOC | 8 | 110:30 | 0 | 140 |
| Andy Miller | 9 | 99:10 | 0 | 130 | |
| Sherry Shank | WPOC | 7 | 110:47 | 0 | 110 |
4-Hour Score Course
35 controls Varying points per control
10 point penalty per minute late
| Name | Club | Controls | Time | Penalty | Score |
| Jim Trautmann | WPOC | 18 | 237:10 | 0 | 490 |
| Team Biddies (2) | 14 | 239:00 | 0 | 370 | |
| Rats in the Night (2) | WPOC | 10 | 236:40 | 0 | 170 |
| Team Barak (3) | WPOC | 9 | 243:54 | -40 | 150 |
| Jamie Yoder | WPOC | 7 | 219:16 | 0 | 90 |