The Winds a Blowin’ at Rabbit Creek

 

Large group of Wild Horses

While it was a beautiful day, the winds made their presence known. The weather made for great conditions on the course, but a little brisk for hanging out for the delicious potluck afterwards. Thank you to everyone that brought items to share.

Many of our 20 some orienteers said they enjoyed the runnability of the day’s maps. New LiDAR data let us expand the map into areas further north into some beautiful and runnable country. John and I spent a day in the field, but additional field work would be helpful to bring the map up to standards. (If anyone wants to really wander aimlessly, you might be able to help with map updates. Future note – do not do GPS dependent field work during a Geomagnetic Storm  - it may lead to inaccuracies in the data.)

There were a few wildlife sightings, but luckily no close calls. Snakes were seen, as were the wild horses known to roam the Owyhees. The wildflowers where going strong, although they had faded a little since the week before.

 Advanced (6.26 km)

1	Sergy	9:49	10:49:30	1:00:30
2	Bill	9:50	11:16	1:26
3	Belén	10:15	11:43	1:28
4	Ted	10:52	12:24	1:32
5	Alecia	10:20	12:08	1:48
6	Samuel	10:25	12:55	2:30

Rayless Shaggy Fleabane

I was going to give Sergy a minute off his time for moving a control to what he perceived as the correct location, but on picking up controls, I disagreed with his placement (control #2 on INT and ADV), as did at least one other orienteer. However, that still gives him the winning time on the advanced course. Nice to have a few new names showing up on the advanced source list. 

 Intermediate (3.97 km)

Torin, Angela, & Jackson	9:47	10:53	1:06
Karin	10:50	12:03	1:13
John M	10:23	11:46	1:23
Eloise (& David)	10:30	12:06	1:36
John & Leslie	9:54	12:08	2:14
Christy & Scott	9:41	12:10	2:29
Jerry	9:51	12:35	2:44
Cat & Becky	9:53	12:24	DNF

Shaggy Fleabane

There was a great showing on the intermediate course as well with many experienced orienteers reporting successes on the course.

 

Sport  (2.01 km)

Royal Beardtongue (Penstemon)

Alex & kids	9:39	10:43	1:04
Nicolas & Mone	10:08	10:42	0:34	Out of Order
Emilie & Anton	10:11	11:24	1:13	Out of Order

 It was great to have some young ones out and they all seemed up for the challenge of a 2km sport course. 

Alex and kids joined us from Cascade Orienteering again! Nicolas, Emilie, Mone, & Anton joined us on their second orienteering adventure and first out of town event.

Thank you to John for his work on the map and help with course design– despite some misunderstandings during map creation. Thank you to Ted, John, and the Ford family for helping to pick up controls! Thank you to a number of experienced oreinteers for feedback on the map design.

Orienteers coming into the finish

Thank you to Bill and Dee for their wonderful hospitality and raspberry pie! What a beautiful corner of the world!

Sunset over the Owyhees