Gold Rush National Meet Results

For those of you who didn't make it, here are some photos and stats from the three days of high caliber orienteering at CTOC's Gold Rush US Champs meet:

Photo Galleries

Results

Orienteers competed from 28 states and 6 countries!

Converging orienteers for the last control on Sunday's Middle course.

Special thanks go to many of our CTOC volunteers on hand to help in a huge variety of ways, critical to making our big meet a success:

• Course designs, map printing, setup, takedown = Sergey Velichko, Ben Brock, John Murray
• Registrar, t-shirts, awards, RD sanity keeper = Dondi Black
• Computer crew: for starts, finish system, results = Sergey Velichko, Ben Brock, Melanie Wright, Katrina Wright
• Awards stickers = Melanie Wright
• Course Marshalls = Innes Wright, Bill McKnight
• Food, water, pop-ups, tables, setup and takedown, hauling and towing = Melanie Schuster, Greg Davidson, Andy Hill, Ben Brock, Sergey Velichko, John Murray, Bill Leahy, Doug LaMott, Caroline McNeely, Denise Lauerman, Madonna Lengerich
• special thanks to Shu's Idaho Running Company for supplying two large extra pop-ups!
• Start crews = Jennifer Smackey, Naomi Clayton, Bill Black, Nikki Black, Doug LaMott, Andy Hill, Madonna Lengerich
• Communications/Ham Radio = Karin Didisse, Dan Herring (who also took photos at the finish for Long), Andy Hill
• Pre-race prep meetings (3 of them!) = Sergey Velichko, Andy Hill, Ben Brock, Melanie Wright, Dondi Black, John Murray, Norma, Ulli Kamm
• Port-a-pottie placement = John Murray (Thursday before meet weekend, a story unto itself that contributed to parking issues Saturday)
• Parking (and unparking from muddy field at Trap) = Greg Davidson, Melanie Schuster, Caroline McNeely, Denise Lauerman, Doug LaMott, Bill Leahy, Madonna Lengerich
• Rope setup and takedown across Trap Creek = John Murray
• Control pickup = Sergey Velichko, Ben Brock, John Murray, Ole Bergset, Jerry Stewart, several other non-CTOC volunteers
• We had a number of attending orienteers who eagerly and tirelessly helped out across the board filling gaps, even after running their course!

And yeah, I was involved one way or the other in most items above, possibly too many.  Things should get a little calmer for the rest of the year as we return to your regular Idaho programming!

Jeff Black

Meet Director