North Park 2
Orienteering Meet
23 October 2022


It was a sunny warm day for late October, a good day for orienteering, perhaps a little too warm in mid-afternoon. We had an excellent turnout with 55 starts from 97 participants, that included a number of people who did both the Beginner and Novice courses. We had a couple of scout groups, a few people we had not seen in a while and a couple visitors from neighboring clubs.

Joe Logan was the event director and Andy Strat was the vetter; Joe designed five challenging courses that had people climbing up and down the many hills of North Park. Everyone seemed to have a good time. There were a couple minor complaints about two slightly misplaced controls on the Advanced Long course; but competitors on that course still found the controls. If fact, there were very few DNFs on any of the courses, with the possible exception of the Intermediate course - indicative of the challenge of moving up from Novice.

We had some stand-out performances by Jonathan Stiffy on the Novice course, Bruce Patterson on the Intermediate course, Scott Patterson on the Advanced Short course and Jonathan Boyer on the Advanced Long course. Each of them placed first on their course by a substantial margin.

Thanks to Laurie Opila, John Huffman and Charles George for handling registration/check-in. Thanks to Jim Wolfe for helping with start/finish. Thanks to Sherry Shank and Joe Logan for conducting instruction. And thanks to Dave Battista, Yaki Barak, Christee and John Homan and Joe Logan for doing control pickup.

You can view the splits at Splits

You can analyze your route (or other people's) using Route Gadget

The next WPOC event will be at Pine Ridge Park on 6 November.


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results created by Ór


Beginner Novice Intermediate Adv Short Adv Long

Beginner    1.7k     50m

NameNotesClubTime
1T73-A 22:46
2McKinstry T73 22:51
3John Lasichak 23:00
4Tom Pichieri Troop 405 31:59
5Jeff Jordan 32:53
6Kevin Richardson 36:23
7Jason Ditzenberger 39:14
8Chris Wheat 40:34
9Renee Dolney 46:45
10Weiwei Liang 49:31
11Loretta Opila WPOC51:52

Novice    3.1k     125m

NameNotesClubTime
1Jonathan Stiffy WPOC52:26
2Tom Pichieri 63:35
3Devin Walsh 70:31
4T73-A 76:56
5Bobbi Battista WPOC92:36
6Beth Sanchez 101:49
7Weiwei Liang 102:05
8John Lasichak 102:21
9Jim Trautmann WPOC104:35
10Chris Wheat 104:56
11Zachary Donehue 105:07
12David Todd 110:29
13Christee Homan WPOC111:34
14Giuseppina Mecchia WPOC111:36

Intermediate    4.3k     185m

NameNotesClubTime
1Bruce Patterson WPOC92:19
2Christy Katalin 106:09
3Lutz Wrage 133:27
4Yao Fan 148:43
5Lois Raphael WPOC166:24
6Scott Wood 180:01
Camilla Hendrych Found 7 controls; finished at 132:09 DNF
Mary Bates Found 6 controls; finished at 177:31 DNF
Robert Condie Found 6 controls; finished at 166:27WPOCDNF
Mike George Missed #5 and #9; finished at 161:11 DSQ
Joshua Cippel Found 6 controls; finished at 125:24WPOCDNF

Adv Short    4.3k     225m

NameNotesClubTime
1Scott Patterson WPOC78:29
2Sherry Shank WPOC122:04
3John Huffman WPOC143:34
4Lucy Hartle 157:49
5Keith Irvin WPOC166:11
6Peiran Jiang 184:14
Charles George Missed #2; finished at 161:03WPOCDSQ
David Rager Found 8 controls; finished at 85:16QOCDNF

Adv Long    7.0k     350m

NameNotesClubTime
1Jonathan Boyer NEOOC98:12
2Alexis Rzewski WPOC108:05
3Dave Battista WPOC108:36
4Jim Trautmann WPOC109:36
5Katie Todd 119:04
6Tamir Klaff 146:04
7John Pane 164:57
8Clint Hartle 167:55
9Harrison Frank 194:35
10Ryan Repp 207:53
Yaki Barak Found 14 controls; finished at 165:11WPOCDNF