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CROC's National Orienteering Day
at Mt Tabor, May 4th 2002

- John Bartholomew

It's an annual tradition now: O-clubs all across the US hold
meets for National Orienteering Day on the first weekend in May,
and CROC played its part again this year.

Mal Harding designed three courses (white, yellow and "pink" - a long
beginner course at 4.6 km) for this meet, including a diplomatic visit
to the security forces guarding the Mt Tabor water reservoirs. Our courses
had to avoid bringing our participants too close to the reservoir fences
due to heightened water supply concerns after Sept. 11th. Fortunately
for us, Mal convinced the friendly guards that we were no threat, and
that we would remind our participants about giving the reservoir a wide
berth. As we expected, there were no "incidents"...!

With sunny but somewhat chilly morning weather, we had roughly 100
attendees with 104 course starts (ie, a few people did two courses).
About 75% of the event participants were not CROC members, and about
25% overall indicated that this was their very first O meet. Another 35%
didn't check yes or no on this question, so up to 60% of the meet
participants were either first timers, or only occasional orienteers.
I recognized several recent Mazamas mountaineering class students at the
meet, and we had one or two groups of adventure racers, as well, starting
to practice their navigation for possible summer races. Two new memberships
were accepted at Mt Tabor, with another one or two more groups taking
forms to "think about joining". While our attendance this year was down
from last year (100 vs 180), we had a much larger group of volunteers
this year, resulting in shorter registration & start lines and more
smiles at the finish! There was also more time and opportunity for club
members to chat with interested newcomers afterwards, too - an important
aspect of attracting more regular meet attendees.

As part of National Orienteering Day, CROC received several
Brunton compasses and Maptech software CD-ROMs to give away to event
participants. The lucky recipients of these items this year were:
Brunton compasses:
D'Amico family - Vancouver WA
Rathkey family - Portland, OR
Jerome Schiller - Portland OR
Gregory family - Portland OR
Juli Opitz - Portland OR
Maptech software:
Matthew Picio - Portland OR

I'd like to thank all the volunteers who helped make this
a successful N.O.D. event again this year: Mal Harding, Glen Cafferty,
Mike Poulsen, Jerry Rhodes, Rafael Gutierrez, Kim & Dylan Bartholomew,
Virginia Church, Donna Brown, Brian Hauck, Jeff Watson and
Philip Kollas (home on leave from a hot, sandy place half a world
away...! Thanks Philip!)

Results:
White course - 2.2 km
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Robert Cuiteser 21:10
Dan & Rebecca O'Day 36:18
Tiare & Dante D'Amico 36:20
Quinn family 37:13
Stacy & Audrey White/Aaron Harsh 38:20
Barbara Ransom 39:20
Davis family 44:45
Jim Ferner/Sue Clark 44:50
Keltz family 47:20
Jordan & Carol Gregory 47:42
Merilyn Lum 57:10
David Anderson 1:00:54
Alan McNeely/Colin Rambo 1:09:37

map hikers:
Juli Opitz
Julie & Kevin Hawkins

Yellow course - 3.3 km
----------------------
Steve Dougherty 33:45
David Ingerson 38:49
Alan McNeely 38:52 (second course)
Heilman family 42:45
Matthew Picio 46:01
Gretchen McNeely 49:56
Elizabeth Silverwolf 55:10
Brad & Anne Marie Dougherty 57:37
Sandra Grieve 1:01:52
Paul Morin/Bryan Guerin/Geoff Haffner/Jim Emery 1:06:25
Glen Cafferty 1:08:00
Allen & Susan Riffel 1:21:35
Melinda & John Emery 1:18:28
Tiare & Dante D'Amico 1:27:05
Brian Russell MSP [control #1]
Donna Brown DNF - had to leave early
Butler/Harrison/Carrington DNF - skipped 4 controls

map hikers:
Dave Lewis
Juli Opitz (second course)
Orchard family
Philip Kollas

Pink course - 4.6 km
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Jason Young 40:32
Peter Drach/Claire McIntyre/Neil Brashnyk/Jennifer Shoe 40:58
Brad Young 41:45
Jerry Rhodes 43:12
Patrick & Chris Birkle 46:45
Roberta Ruggeri/Steve Redmond 47:04
Andrea Thomas/Chris Zanger 54:50
Denton family 1:26:42
Chris Harpel/Lisa-Natalie Anjozian 1:31:10
Gimre family 2:42:40
Schiller family 2:42:40
Rathkey family DNF - skipped five controls
Hava Gordon/Jason McKaid DNF - had to leave early, skipped one control
Rafael Gutierrez DNF - skipped one control
Gregory Pratt - DNF

map hikers:
Shannon Riemer & Dave Woodworth
Jonathon Moscatello

Results

CROC's National Orienteering Day at Mt Tabor, May 4th 2002

CROC's National Orienteering Day
at Mt Tabor, May 4th 2002