Settlers Cabin Park
Orienteering Meet
12 April 2026


 It was a sunny day with blue skies and mild temperatures, and a high attendance was expected. With 62 starts from 101 participants, it exceeded our expectations. By 11:30 AM, the parking lot was full, and a several vehicles arriving soon afterwards were directed to an overflow upper parking lot. A couple of participants were from the Washington DC area, who happened to be in our area during the weekend. There was also a noticeable attendance by scouting organizations.

Event director was Alexis Rzewski, who also did the field checking and mapping. This was the first time that the park has been used for Orienteering. The park sits on terrain with a history of coal extraction, mining, and oil pumping. There are terrain and man-made features that reveal this history, in the shape of pits, depressions, holes, excavated ditches, metal pipes, metal storage tanks, oil pumps, slag hillsides. And green spongy mossy wet hillsides, a sort of marshland on a slope, caused by a slow-flowing water stream from an underground aquifer punctured by a mining drill or mine shaft. Overall, the general impression by participants was that the park was more green than indicated on the map, prompting a quote from Dave Battista: "hey, just a suggestion, next time print the map on green paper". Many participants that were on the intermediate and advanced courses, encountered an open area (indicated on the map as light yellow) that was covered in a wet soaked mossy spongy terrain, and everyone agreed that it should have been marked on the map as a marsh. Other observant participants reported that the printed maps were missing the vertical North lines, something that was overlooked when preparing the maps. On the advanced courses, some participants had difficulty locating a control embedded inside a grove of reeds ( 4 on Brown, 10 on Red).

Kevin Tucker, from the 3ROC adventure racing team, started Red and went to visit the controls but in reverse order, and realized it much later (we joked to him that it was because of his recent runs in the Pittsburgh Marathon, in which he opted to do the course in reverse direction). Luca Rzewski was traveling from 5 to 6 on Red, when he suddenly found himself in the vicinity of control 9, and then realizing that he was viewing "9" upside down, and then correcting himself and traveling to the real control 6. Special recognition for Azamat, who accompanied the course setter twice, once when flagging the courses, and then when setting the control flags.

Thanks to Joe Logan for vetting. Thanks to Ryan Repp, Katja Izotova, Laurie Opila for handling registration/check-in. Thanks to Jim Wolfe for helping with start/finish. Thanks to Joe Logan, Jen Livingston for conducting instruction. And thanks to Ryan Knecht, Brett Foster, Dave Battista, Kim Stewart, Dave Gailey for doing control pickup.

You can view Alexis Rzewski's photos for the event at the Photo Link

You can view the splits at Splits

You can analyze your route using Livelox

The next WPOC event will be at Babcock Bog & Boulder Challenge on 25 April.    Return to the Welcome Page

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Beginner Novice Intermediate Adv Short Adv Long

Beginner 1.8k     75m

Name Notes Club Time
1 Jason2 Campbell WPOC 25:16
2 Levi Hornbeck WPOC 30:44
3 Tristan Sprowls 30:48
4 Robert Miller 40:01
5 Mankey Xavier Troop 1017 40:03
6 Timothy Goerl 40:18
7 Maralynn Jacoby 41:37
8 Debbie Stiles 45:13
9 Jason Clark 51:31
10 Troop Clinton Troop 830 54:50
11 Troop Clinton 830 55:46
12 Paul Maniago 58:15
13 Christine Chilcott 60:26
14 Andrew Kastle 64:18
15 Bunny Petrillo 68:30
Loretta Opila Missed control #3; finished at 53:23 WPOC DNF
Andrew Bock Missed control #4; finished at 59:33 DNF
Lisa Boyd Control #4 out of order; finished at 41:47 DNF

Novice 3.5k     160m

Name Notes Club Time
1 Luke Donnelly 47:33
2 Jason Campbell WPOC 50:44
3 Levi Hornbeck 50:49
4 Jonathan Stiffy WPOC 62:40
5 Jim Cebula WPOC 69:49
6 Judy Repp 77:10
7 Amber Clites 77:34
8 Claire Trautmann WPOC 82:56
9 Russ Maiers WPOC 83:20
10 Christee Homan 95:13
11 Joe Weltner 96:05
12 Giuseppina Mecchia WPOC 102:38
Barbara Johnstone Found 8 controls; finished at 127:06 WPOC DNF

Intermediate 4.8k     290m

Name Notes Club Time
1 Brett Foster 123:23
2 Dave Gailey 141:35
3 Christina Traynor WPOC 154:40
4 Benjamin McCutchan 178:41
5 Josh Schnell 178:42
6 Matt Roulf 180:46
7 Matthew Knupp Troop 65 dos 209:46
8 Josh Weltner WPOC 215:44
Bobbi Battista Found 4 controls; finished at 126:00 WPOC DNF
Amber Clites Found 8 controls; finished at 146:57 DNF
Matthew Tesch Found 7 controls; finished at 163:06 WPOC DNF
Bert Condie Found 4 controls; finished at 152:54 DNF
Bruce Patterson Found 5 controls; finished at 84:38 WPOC DNF

Adv Short 4.5k     185m

Name Notes Club Time
1 Jason Campbell WPOC 94:23
2 David Rager QOC 133:58
3 Reiko Rager 134:27
4 Brian Hattenach 152:40
5 Ekaterina Izotova WPOC 171:16
Jennifer Livingston Missed control #7; finished at 146:47 WPOC DNF
Ryan Repp Missed control #7; finished at 102:51 WPOC DNF

Adv Long 6.3k     335m

Name Notes Club Time
1 Luca Rzewski WPOC 100:13
2 Ryan Knecht WPOC 100:26
3 Dave Battista WPOC 106:19
4 Chris Corbran 157:15
5 Kimberly Stewart WPOC 174:56
6 Will Levine WPOC 185:29
Naomi Jarvis Found 11  controls; finished at 242:51 WPOC DNF
Andrew Karnavas Multiple out of order; fihished at 233:14 DNF
Yaki Barak Found 7 controls; finished at 152:52 WPOC DNF
Jim Trautmann Missed control #15; finished at 126:32 WPOC DNF
Kevin Tucker Multiple out of order; finished at 109:21 DNF