Pine Ridge Park
Orienteering Meet
12 November 2023


The temperature was in the mid 40s, a little cool but generally a good day for orienteering. We had a very good turnout with 44 starts from 69 participants. The start window was reduced to two hours (10 am to noon) so that the general meeting which followed the orienteering would not start as late as in the past.

Jim Wolfe was the event director. He created five scatter courses for Beginners, Novices, Intermediates, Advanced Short and Advanced Long participants. This was the club's first use of scatter courses so that only a few of the participants from outside the club had ever experienced scatter before. There were many positive comments about the courses and very few DNFs (several of those were caused by a misunderstanding on the number of required controls).

A few of the participants did not stop when they had visited the required number of controls. Instead, they visited all the possible controls on their course. Whether this was because they wanted extra practice or they wanted to say they cleared the course or they didn't understand how scatter worked was not clear; it was clear that by deliberately visiting extra controls these participants drifted to lower positions in the results standings.

Thanks to Jim Wolfe for vetting. Thanks to Sherry Shank, John Pane and Laurie Opila for handling registration/check-in. Thanks to Jim Wolfe for helping with start/finish. Thanks to Naomi Jarvis for conducting instruction. And thanks to Luca Rzewski, Kim Stewart, Ryan Knecht, Alexis Rzewski and Dave Battista for doing control pickup.

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Pine Ridge Park 231112
results created by Ór


Beginner Novice Intermediate Adv Short Adv Long

Beginner    14 controls; 10 required

NameNotesClubTime
1Stacy Bartlebaugh 95:23
2Eric Steinbring WPOC103:39
3Jude Frank WPOC166:13
Smith and Gary Found 6 controls; finished at 56:44 DNF
Loretta Opila Found 9 controls; finished at 73:27WPOCDNF

Novice    15 controls; 11 required

NameNotesClubTime
1Jake Abels 71:05
2Christee Homan WPOC100:33
3David Todd 107:18
4Camilla Hendrych WPOC125:28
5Waldorf 126:40
6Barbara Johnstone WPOC135:18
7Giuseppina Mecchia WPOC136:47
8Nando Costa 146:54
9Brian Nicolella 159:52
Maggie Bain Found 7 controls; finished at 77:08 DNF
Layla Kitchin Found 10 controls; finished at 89:52 DNF
Poppy Seif Found 10 controls; finished at 88:19 DNF
Bill Shine Found 10 controls; finished at 124:15 DNF

Intermediate   22 controls; 16 required

NameNotesClubTime
1Nathaniel Hazelton WPOC82:30
2Naomi Jarvis WPOC86:06
3Stephanie Luckasevic 106:52
4Scott Patterson WPOC106:57
5Bruce Patterson WPOC113:49
6David Novak 167:59
7Lutz Wrage 169:01

Adv Short   21 controls; 15 required

NameNotesClubTime
1Stuart Cameron 54:46
2Luca Rzewski WPOC61:58
3Ryan Repp WPOC84:55
4Sherry Shank WPOC87:15
5Ben Collins 114:50
Jennifer Livingston Found 12 controls; finished at 114:49WPOCDNF

Adv Long26 controls; 20 required

NameNotesClubTime
1Ryan Knecht WPOC53:39
2Zach Serifini 62:06
3Dave Battista WPOC65:54
4Matt Hasselfield 66:38
5Katie Todd 72:04
6John Pane WPOC73:55
7Jim Trautmann WPOC75:42
8Liz Serafini 86:45
9Brian Hattenbach 88:39
10Alexis Rzewski WPOC115:25
11Yaki Barak WPOC117:49
12Edna Spang 156:06
13Kimberly Stewart WPOC160:08