August 30, 2010

Bear Basin Results

Our good luck with meet day weather ended this weekend with cold drizzlie conditions for the Bear Basin orienteering meet. We had a good turn out nevertheless and no actual reports of frostbite, but maybe a bit of hypothermia. It was discovered that the mountain bike trail making faeries had been busy with two new trails suddenly appearing a couple of days before the event right in an area that I had a couple of controls. Too late to map the trails, I had to simply warn people that there were unmapped trails on the map. This caused people to not trust any of the trails and caused some problems for a couple of the competitors, this and time constraints led Jeff B. to a rare dnf (did not finish). The trail faeries also have been busy turning old forest service roads into single track bike trails (quite a trick!) so there will be lots of changes on the Bear basin map in the future.

McCall local Ben Hipple tried the intermediate course with very good results beating out an entusiastic Andy and Elijah who might have been somewhat slowed down by good huckleberry picking found at one of their controls. The advanced course had some close competition between Ole, Lee, and Bill. Dondi took her mother Frankie and dog Toby for a tour of Litttle Bear Basin, unfortunately unable to find some of the controls on what turned out to be a difficult beginner course, which I have dubbed "Short Intermediate" because of it's difficulty. Luckily no new people showed up to try it.

Thanks for the good turnout and to helpers on control pickup: Andy, Elijah, Bill P., Ole.
- Karin Didisse

Advanced 6.3km
Sergey Velichko 51:48
Ole Bergset 1:21:25
Lee Scott 1:38:42
Bill Pilcher 1:40:39
Russ Pilcher 2:04:17
Jeff Black dnf

Intermediate 5.8km
Ben Hipple 1:07:40
Andy & Elijah Hill 1:50:15
David B. & Neva dnf

"Short Intermediate" 2.2km
Jeff D. & Donna G. 1:08:10
Dondi B. & Frankie & Toby dnf

August 25, 2010

Upcoming Bear Basin meet info

Here is some info about the upcoming orienteering meet at Bear Basin near McCall SUNDAY 8/29. Starts are from 11am- 1 pm and we'll be meeting at the new Bear Basin Trailhead off of Club Hill Road:To get there go up to the highest point on highway 55 (a couple miles headed west out of McCall) and turn north (right) on Club Hill Rd. for 1/2 mile, the parking lot is just off to the right where the road makes a sharp turn left.Come on up and enjoy the nice weather, beautiful forest and huckleberries! We'll have three courses with the longest being around 6.4 km.
- Karin Didisse, meet director

New Blood Draws Some Blood

BSU / Julia Davis / Ann Morrison Score course

Saturday, July 17

Attendance for the July meet was pretty thin, even for a mid-summer meet.   However, those who did attend had the pleasure (and some pain) of seeing what a brand-new course designer (Elijah Hill) had to offer.

The Beginner course was a standard 1.6km loop in Julia Davis Park.   Newcomer Liam Murray blazed through the course in just over 30 minutes (give him a couple of years to get some leg length, and Sergey better look out!), but was narrowly edged out by Ellen Crosby.

The meat of the meet :-) was a 16-control score course spread over both the BSU / Julia Davis and Ann Morrison maps, with a calculated optimum route of 8.45km, maximum number of points of 200, a time limit of 45 minutes, and a 5-point-per-full-overtime-minute penalty.    Unlike the usual score course, where the most “valuable” controls were the most distant, the point value of the controls was intentionally biased with a number of close, high-value controls to make it easier for a slower but more strategic thinker to outscore someone trying to bag all 16 controls.   Not sure how this worked out in practice – it may have been too complex of an idea, but it was an interesting twist.   In an upset victory, Jeff Black took a calculated risk to go overtime in order to bag an additional 20 pointer, and the resulting net 5 points (20 points minus the 15 point overtime penalty) was enough to edge out Sergey, who was unable to find one of the Ann Morrison controls in a very, very vague area of the map (he did, however, find pretty much every bramble in the area).   Bill Leahy did an excellent job of time management to come in just under the penalty time.    Unfortunately, Masha came in early, not knowing how to get from Julia Davis to Ann Morrison…bit of an oops! from a course design standpoint.

Thanks to co-meet director Lee Scott for lending a huge hand with both control setting and control pickup on meet day – this would’ve really painful without his help.

Thanks to everyone who came out – see ya in McCall – Sunday, August 29th!

Andy & Elijah

Hey!  Can’t forget the meet results --

Beginner

 

Name

Time

Ellen Crosby 31:20
Liam Murray 32:17

 

Score

     

Name

Time

Raw Points

Adjusted Points

Jeff Black 48:12 200 185
Sergey Velichko 44:25 180 180
Bill Leahy 45:30 135 135
Masha Velichko 35:04 100 100

And no meet report is complete without some cool pics!

Liam Murray punches in a the final control on the Beginner course…

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Sergey tries to remove all billion cheatgrass seeds from his shoes while Masha plots a course to the nearest Starbucks….

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Coursesetter Elijah Hill finishes strong after picking up the Beginner course…

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