Yellow Creek State Park (South Side)
Orienteering Meet
23 May 2021


It was a hot day for late May, temperature in the low 80's.  Although it threatened rain, we didn't get any until we were picking up controls.  We had a good turnout, 81 participants with 33 starts.  More than half of the participants did not preregister, including a large group from the organization Trail Life.

Sherry Shank designed five courses for the event.  Generally, the courses went well.  There were some people on Novice and Intermediate courses that were trying something above their skill level; and the Advanced Long course was a bit too much for most of the participants on that course; the temperature was undoubtedly a factor.  We did have several participants from neighboring clubs, something that does not happen often.

Thanks to Linda Gray, Laurie Opila, Sherry Shank and Jen Livingston for handling registration.  Thanks to Tom Gray for helping with Start/Finish.  Thanks to Sherry Shank for conducting instruction.  And thanks to Joe Logan, Ryan Knecht, Alexis Rzewski and Lee Bash for doing control pickup.

You can view the splits at Splits

The only photo I have from the event is this one

If you want to analyze your route, go to Route Gadget

The next WPOC event (last one of the Spring season) is Raccoongaine in two weeks.


210523 Yellow Creek
results created by Ór

                                                                                                                                                               
Beginner Novice Intermediate Adv Short Adv Long
Beginner    1.9k        40m
NameNotesClubTime
1Wony Hong 36:35
2Ian Livingston WPOC44:42
3Kevin Trail Life 57:14
4Jennie Long 64:09
5Paul Sleppy WPOC66:18
6Laurie Opila WPOC70:42
7Sawyer Hindman 70:46
8Patrick Trail Life 77:09
9Linda Heckert 121:32


Novice      3.4k         80m
NameNotesClubTime
1Katyana Grabler 97:42
2Eric Smith 100:59
3Josiah Smith 105:43
4Wony Hong 107:24
5Brett Cravener 111:24
6Joe Trail Life 115:39
7John Trail Life 118:22
George Heym Missed #9; finished at 191:38 WPOCDNF
JOHN LUDWIG Found 1 control; finished at 81:28WPOCDNF
Mary Sleppy Found No controls; finished at 63:30 WPOCDNF


Intermediate     4.5k       190m
NameNotesClubTime
1Reiko Rager QOC135:33
2Linda & Tom Gray WPOC154:22
3Ryan Repp WPOC155:28
Lutz Wrage Found 5 controls; finished at 112:00 DNF
Giuseppina Mecchia Found 2 controls; finished at 92:51WPOCDNF
Pauline Grimm Found 3 controls; finished at 201:36 DNF
Jay Thornton Found 5 controls; finished at 132:03 DNF


Adv Short     4.7k          190m
NameNotesClubTime
1Joe Logan WPOC99:36
2Rob Wilkison DVOA106:11
3David Rager QOC106:40


Adv Long     7.8k         350m
NameNotesClubTime
1Alexis Rzewski WPOC116:35
Yaki Barak Found 16 controls; finished at 164:18WPOCDNF
Keith Irvin Found 11 controls; finished at 171:32WPOCDNF
Lee Bash Found 10 controls; finished at 202:28WPOCDNF