9th Annual Rabbit Creek

9th Annual Rabbit Creek O Meet Results

Ole considers his options.

Once again the Rabbit Creek O-Meet was held on a fantastic Owyhee Spring Day

Advanced Course 9K

 The 9K course for the 9th Annual Meet had 10 participants

Sergey Velichko, in a class of his own,  finshed the brutal course in 1:17 He was over 30 minutes ahead of 2nd place finsher David Murray.

Jeff Black, just 5 minutes behind David, edged out Ole Bergset for 3rd place.

Dondi Black handily won the women's division and tied with Toby, the winner of the quadruped division

Joe Walker, coming in from California, had by far the best average MPH if you take into account the miles he traveled from home

Sergey Velichco     1:17

David Murray          1:49

Jeff Black               1:54

Ole Bergset            2:08

John Murray            2:20

Doug Lamott           2:25

Jay Morgan             2:34

Bill Leahy                2:39

Dondi Black            2:59

Toby Black              2:59

Joe Walker             3:51

The advanced course consisted of two maps, ran consecutively. They appear below with Sergey's route marked.

Loop 1

Loop 2

Intermediate Course 4.7K

Only Russ Pilcher and Davis Gilton opted for the Intermediate course this year.

Russ Completed the Course in 1:48

Davis arrived a bit late to get all the controls but got a good taste of the terrain and layout of the Rabbit Creek Meet to be ready for next year!

  

Beginner Course 1.2K

The Anderson family; including Bruce, Lori, Marcus and Vikki had a great walkabout and learned a bit about orienteering in the process

We hope to see them again this summer!

Anderson family

Special Thanks

Thanks go to Russ for having the foresight to order in the incredible weather.

 It is probably the best idea he has had since he ordered the porta-potties for the Caldwell Challenge.

Thanks also go to Russ for vetting the advanced course and for his suggestion of dividing the course into two maps.

Thank you to Ellen Crosby. She hates orienteering, but seems to like orienteers. Ellen is quickly becoming the club's official event photographer.

Warm thanks go to Ole Bergset for returning on Monday with his "Norski Control Pickup Mobile" and bringing in the majority of the outlying controls!

Ole came close to high centering his Norski Mobile and adding a man-made feature to next years map

See you all next May 2013 for

 the

10th Annual Rabbit Creek O-Meet !

Bill Pilcher... Director

Announcing: The 9th Annual Rabbit Creek O Meet

Sunday, May 20th

10am to 1pm

In honor of the 9th annual Rabbit Creek-O

The advanced course will be

A challenging 9K Classic-O event!

Classic Intermediate and Beginner Courses will also be offered

instead of (or in addition to) the advanced course

A light lunch and refreshments will be available after 12:00

(while supplies last!)

questions? contact Bill Pilcher

 pilcher@congervet.com

directions

From Boise take I-84 west to Nampa (exit #35). Turn Left and proceed to 3rd Street S (Caldwell Blvd). Turn Left on 3rd Street S (Caldwell Blvd) and proceed to 12th Ave. Turn Right on 12th Ave. Follow 12th Ave. south and it becomes Hwy 45 as it leaves Nampa city limits. Follow Hwy 45 across the Snake River. Soon after crossing the river, bear to the left and it becomes Hwy 78. Follow Hwy 78 to milepost 29. Immediately after passing the "Murphy" city limits sign turn to the Right on "Old Hwy 45" follow this for one block then continue straight and it becomes " Rabbit Creek Road". Follow Rabbit Creek Road for about 5 1/2 miles to J & S Road there is a lone mailbox and a BLM sign there that says "Road Ends on Private Land in 1 mile". Turn Left on J&S Road and follow this road approximately 1 1/2 miles to the house and sign in area.

Laramie Daze and Western States Champs

Photo from http://www.wyomingtourism.org/overview/Medicine-Bow-National-Forest/3664

Fellow orienteers:

It's well worth noting and quite possibly taking advantage of this relatively close and remarkably affordable A meet:

Laramie Daze and Western States Championships, August 28 -September 3

This year the two days of the Western States Orienteering Championships will be held in conjunction with the five days of Mikell Platt's Laramie Daze. That's seven days of orienteering on some of the finest maps and most inviting terrain around. Mikell, a 13-time US Classic champion, has mapped considerably more than half of a 150 square kilometer area in the Medicine Bow National Forest east of Laramie including never before used terrain. Learn more about Laramie Daze at http://sites.google.com/site/laramierangeorienteeringclub/home .

Rocky Mountain Orienteering Club will host the Western States Orienteering Championships. More information on that later at http://www.rmoc.org/ .

John Murray and Jeff Black

April Meet at Columbia Village Report

It took a little bit of traversing steep hills

It took a little bit of persuasion

It took a little bit of fence climbing

It took a little bit of map thinking

It took a little bit of determination

It took a little bit of happy finishing

Ole found us!

New Columbia Village map inauguration and opportunity to run through hundreds people literally jamming soccer fields of Simplot complex made this past Saturday courses challenging and requiring full concentration, flow, and execution. Below are results of both Intermediate and Advanced courses that shared many controls together. Unfortunately, one of the controls disappeared but was skillfully recovered by Ole who noticed some boys playing with the bag. We hope it did not spoil the moment as the location of the control was obviously the only saddle on the map.

Intermediate Course: 3.7K, 10m climb, 15 controls

Davis Gilton                                     32:10
Jeff Decker                                      35:04
Alex Pusch                                      35:30
Ole Bergset                                     41:10
Michael and Drake Rudolph            52:25
Katarina Schwartsman                     52:42
Masha Velichko (just stretching)

Advanced Course: 6.5K, 50m climb, 20 controls

Todd Dinkelman                               40:45
Ben Brock                                        44:00
Jeff Black                                         49:57
John Murray                                     57:42
Jeff, Hayden, and Andrew Harvey 1:11:53

We hope to see you all at our traditional Rabbit-O in May. Bill and Russ are masters of putting fun and enjoyable events! And this is real wilderness!

Yours,
Masha and Sergey Velichko

* All photos are courtesy of our special field correspondent Ellen Crosby.

P.S. If you are the owner of small red jacket left at the start, please, contact us so we can arrange a transfer (see our contact info at the right bottom).

April Meet at Columbia Village

Our April meet is moved to Columbia Village due to prognosis of rainy days that make Boise Foothills un-passable to an average person. Please park at Columbia Village Recreation Center at 3655 E. Lake Forest Drive. Meet center will be right there.

Starts are 11 am to 1 pm and all courses will be closed at 3 pm. Our usual set of courses for beginners, intermediate, and advanced (long) is being designed to challenge your orienteering skills.

Hope to see you all there!

Masha and Sergey Velichko

Orienteering on St. Patrick's Day at Ann Morrison Park

Initially, I’d like to thank some of those who made this meet possible.  First, my brother Bill who devoted numerous patient hours tutoring me on the use of OCAD, assisted with field checking at Ann Morrison Park (which cost me a lost compass and some beer and pizza at the Flying Pie), printed the maps, furnished donuts & coffee at the meet and refused to let me store wet, soggy control bags in the club’s storage locker.  My wife, Caroll, and neighbors (Bev and Mel) who collated and water proofed the maps which were distributed throughout the Advance Course.   Good friend, Ole, who provided shelter during the cold, wet, pre-dawn hours while him & Bill divvied up the unpleasant task of setting out the controls in the rain (and they later retrieved these controls/hardware after the meet).  Ellen Crosby who captured and shared her excellent photographs, documenting the meet.  Relatively new CTOC member, Melanie Wright, who checked punches and helped w/times at the finish area.   Finally, my sincere thanks and appreciation go to all those who showed up and participated in this meet.

The Morgan Clan braving the elements.

There were three courses offered: a classic 1 mile beginner course with 8 controls, a classic 2 mile intermediate course with 10 controls, and a ‘non-classic’ 3 mile advance course with 17 controls.  ‘Non-classic’ in the sense that advance course participants were not provided a standard course map with control descriptions; but rather, they had to rely on maps secured to every other control throughout the course.   These maps would only present the next two controls with associated descriptions; thereby, requiring runners to utilize memory.  Once this new concept was explained to and understood by John Murray, I grew confident that any and all participants could understand it (except, as it turned out, for Sergey).  Sergey asked to see the meet director’s master map of the entire 17 control advance course after his time had started.  With seconds ticking, Sergey studied this map for approximately 2 minutes, returned it to the meet director and then took off with his familiar gait for point 1 completing the course without looking at any other map.  It remains undecided whether Sergey’s flagrant display of memorization skill constitutes a technical violation of the meet director’s unpublished rules.  Two other potential violations of these same unpublished rules were committed by Ben when he opted for efficiency by taking point 5S out of its ‘intended’ order and Todd when he focused on the map at 6M and forgot to punch. 

Sergey waiting for Bill to punch so he could get on with his life and the course.

Technical violations aside, here are the unofficial results  (please submit any protests,  printed and double -spaced,  along with a $15.00 'consideration fee' directly to the Meet Director):

BEGINNER
Name	Time
** Perhaps opted for the local Pubs, as none showed up for the Beginner’s Course

INTERMEDIATE
Name	Time
Doug LaMott	20:36
Jeff Decker & Donna Goodwin	36:45
The Morgan Clan (Emily, Nikolai & Meksi)	47:30
Jeff Harvey	53:40

  

ADVANCED
Name	Time
Ben Brock	29:31
Sergey Velichko	30:30
Greg Davidson	34:29
Jay Morgan	37:30
Jeff Black	38:44
Bill Leahy	39:20
Melanie Schuster	39:28
Todd Dinkelman	40:45
John Murray	42:50
Karin Didisse	48:20
Bill Pilcher	49:00
Doug LaMott	50:19
Melanie Wright	54:40

Our next meet is Saturday - April 7, 2012 at Stewart Gulch East.  Masha/Sergey Velichko will direct.  Since Sergey is not competing this would be a good chance for most of us to finish higher in the standings than usual.

RUSS PILCHER

MEET DIRECTOR