Laurel Ridge S.P. Ski Area
Orienteering Meet
23 April 2017
It was an ideal day for the inaugral day of foot-orienteering at Laurel
Ridge, temperature in the 50s with lots of sun. We had a
pretty good turnout (58 people, 35 starts) for an event fairly far from
Pittsburgh. A mountain rescue course was going on in the building
next to us; but we didn't manage to convince any of the participants to
join the orienteering.
Jim Wolfe designed five courses on the relatively-flat, boulder-covered
mountain top. Everyone seemed to have a good time, despite the
technical nature of the area. On most areas we use, every
noticeable boulder is mapped. With Laurel Ridge having so many
boulders, the map showed only those that were 3 feet or higher.
It took some of the the regular attendees a little while to get
use to that. There was one unusual "Shroud-of-Turin-occurrence"
as a life-sized statue of Jesus was reported to be near one of the
controls. However, during control pickup, it was determined that
Jesus had vanished. Also, a mud-coated, water-logged cell phone
was found on a trail. We could no longer get it to function or
even charge. If you lost it, you probably don't want it back.
Thanks to Eric Steinbring, Linda Gray, Giuseppina Mecchia and Andy
Karnavas for handling registration. Thanks to Barbara Johnstone,
Tom Gray and Luca Rzewski for running start/finish. Thanks to Joe
Logan for conducting instruction. And thanks to Rayden Sorock,
Jerry Agin, Jett Downey and Yaki Barak for doing control pickup.
If you want to check out the splits, click here
| 170423 Laurel Ridge |
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| results |
created by Ór |
| Beginner (White) | 2.1k 75m |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Sandy Condie (4) | | WPOC | 41:48 |
| 2 | Matthew South (2) | | | 43:05 |
| 3 | Barbara Johnstone | | WPOC | 47:10 |
| 4 | Russellyn Carruth | | WPOC | 67:55 |
| 5 | Curtis James (4) | | | 79:37 |
| Josh Chopak (4) | Misunderstood control numbering; finished in 70:33 | | DNF |
| Barbara Jones | Missed last control; finished in 74:26 | | DNF |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Team Bush (4) | | | 70:57 |
| 2 | Luca Rzewski (2) | | WPOC | 74:45 |
| 3 | Fred Chenot (2) | | WPOC | 78:18 |
| 4 | Sandy Condie (4) | | WPOC | 82:55 |
| 5 | John Messina (5) | | | 84:21 |
| 6 | Eric Steinbring | | WPOC | 102:18 |
| 7 | Christianne Proctor Homan (2) | | | 126:38 |
| Barbara Jones | Did #2 out of order; finished in 138:56 | | DSQ |
| Christine Nowak (2) | Missed control 9; finished in 154:25 | | DNF |
| Intermediate (Orange) | 4.7k 110m |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | James Fenn | | WPOC | 70:55 |
| 2 | Joe Logan | | WPOC | 72:47 |
| 3 | Andy Karnavas | | WPOC | 105:24 |
| 4 | Jett Downey | | WPOC | 105:56 |
| 5 | Anthony Travia | | | 132:49 |
| 6 | Tom & Linda Gray | | WPOC | 142:16 |
| 7 | Michael Brown | | | 159:25 |
| Kelly Sottile | Missed controls 9 and 10; finished in 239:55 | WPOC | DNF |
| Dave Battista | Found first 4 controls; finished in 46:00 | WPOC | DNF |
| Adv Short (Brown) | 4.1k 100m |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Dave Battista | | WPOC | 78:15 |
| 2 | Kayla Bling (2) | | | 156:54 |
| 3 | Rayden Sorock | | WPOC | 160:05 |
| 4 | Lee Bash | | | 188:25 |
| Hunter Bash (4) | Found first 3 controls; finished in 165:11 | | DNF |
| Name | Notes | Club | Time |
|---|
| 1 | Katrina Weinmann | | WPOC | 90:30 |
| 2 | Ryan Knecht | | WPOC | 95:32 |
| 3 | Yaki Barak | | WPOC | 174:34 |
| 4 | Jerry Agin | | WPOC | 185:37 |
| 5 | Naomi Jarvis (2) | | WPOC | 200:57 |