It was an excellent day for orienteering, not very typical of November - sunny, temperature in the 60's with dry woods. We had a fair turnout with 33 starts and 58 people showing up. A few were new to orienteering but I would have expected more with the good weather and no Steelers game conflict.
Jim Wolfe was meet director. The courses he set had a bit too much climb; but it is difficult to limit climb to an appropriate level at Pine Ridge Park. The White course was the greatest concern because, although it used roads and trails as handrails, some of the trails were in terrible shape. Unfortunately, the one with the most severe climb was like that. For the first time, we tried a relay of sorts. It was a 3-leg relay designed for one person and had an imposed time limit. The idea was for each person to decide at the end of a leg whether on not s/he could do the next leg and stay within the time limit. There were a few complaints about the difficulty of the White course. But the comments about the relay were very positive.
We had one new person join the club; welcome to Joni James.
Thanks to Barbara Johnstone, Guiseppina Mecchia, Jen Livingston and Laurie Opila for handling registration. Thanks to Sherry Shank and Dan Marincel for handling start/finish. Thanks to Joe Logan and Alexis Rzewski for conducting instruction. And thanks to Al Sheaffer, Dave Battista and Andy Strat for picking up the controls.
You can see photos that Alexis took at the meet here .
The last meet of the year will be at Frick Park on December 1.
White Course
2.49 km 100 m climb 9 controls
| Fred & Julie Chenot | WPOC | 49:47 |
| Jen, Emma, Sean Livingston | WPOC | 60:23 |
| Andy & Kathy | WPOC | 63:24 |
| TJ & Alex Platt | Team Roxy | 64:07 |
| Barbara Jones | 77:45 | |
| Jeff Rose (4) | 81:25 | |
| Cathie & Laurie Opila | WPOC | 92:48 |
| Mary Curry (2) | 98:06 | |
| Tamaka Ranalli (2) | 98:06 | |
| Deb Skander, David & Brian Pickford | 129:36 | |
| Joni James | WPOC | 142:36 |
Yellow Course
3.43 km 165 m climb 9 controls
| Sherry Shank | WPOC | 45:43 |
| JSS Kniola (2) | 67:43 | |
| Kniola Krew (3) | 69:30 | |
| Christy Freeman | WPOC | 73:00 |
| Giuseppina Mecchia & Luca Rzewski | WPOC | 76:09 |
| Sabertooth Llamas (3) | Troop 183 | 86:09 |
| Jack Molchany | 89:16 | |
| Sergey Sklyar | 89:16 | |
| Midnight Rockers | WPOC | 95:50 |
| Eric & Shanna Brown | 106:40 | |
| Alex & TJ Platt | Team Roxy | 110:07 |
| Tali Shalom Barak | WPOC | 193:31 |
| Barbara Johnstone missed control #3 88:43 | WPOC | DSQ |
Relay Course Single Leg
2.99 km 110 m climb 8 controls
Limit 100 minutes
| Name | Club | Time | Penalty | Total |
| Sherry Shank | WPOC | 62:18 | 0:00 | 62:18 |
| Yaki Barak | WPOC | 70:12 | 0:00 | 70:12 |
Relay Course Two Legs
5.60 km 245 m climb 14 controls
Limit 100 minutes
| Name | Club | Time | Penalty | Total |
| Alexis Rzewski | WPOC | 78:40 | 0:00 | 78:40 |
| Joe Logan | WPOC | 87:16 | 0:00 | 87:16 |
| Lorenz (2) | WPOC | 93:13 | 0:00 | 93:13 |
| Derrick Monahan | WPOC | 104:16 | 15:00 | 119:16 |
Relay Course Three Legs
7.78 km 355 m climb 21 controls
Limit 100 minutes
| Name | Club | Time | Penalty | Total |
| Andy | WPOC | 72:00 | 0:00 | 72:00 |
| Dave Battista | WPOC | 88:34 | 0:00 | 88:34 |
| Nathan Ohrwaschel | DVOA | 96:20 | 0:00 | 96:20 |
| Dan Marincel | WPOC | 102:24 | 9:00 | 111:24 |