Babcock Bog & Boulder Challenge
Orienteering Meet
25 April 2026

It was another rainy day for the 3BC with temperatures in the 50s. The rain and fog are getting to be a tradition, an unwelcome one. We had 16 teams on the 3-hour and 27 teams on the 6-hour (a total of 73 participants); 9 teams that were preregistered either canceled right before the event or did not show up. The overall winner on the 3-hour was The Rzewskinator with 982 points; he found 16 controls. The overall winner on the 6-hour was Ian Whitehead with 1776 points; he found 29 controls and won even being 3 minutes late. There were 40 controls with a total of 2428 points.

Jim Wolfe designed the courses. He took advantage of the 600 acres that were added to the map since last year by placing multiple controls in these areas. Most comments about the event were very positive. There was one problem with control 57 which was not hung properly and had fallen to the ground. It was rehung by a couple competitors. Negative comments were generally weather related (it rained almost continuously from 9 am to 5 pm which produced fog in the strip mine area).

As usual there were 8 First Found tags on the courses. The teams that found them were: 43 - Ekaterina Izotova, 48 - Fen-tastically Bolder, 51 - was not awarded, 58 - Team Boy-O, 64 - Jonathan Boyer, 67 - Lost in Pace, 70 - The North Hill, and 82 - Jerkface. There was no award for 51 because it was returned by someone who had already found another First Found tag and the limit is one per person. By analyzing the split times, it looks like Team G should have been the next team to reach 51. So, I figure Team G should be receiving the $20 award.

There is a table of visitations available that you can view (Visit Counts). It shows how many teams actually found each control. It should be no surprise that control 41 was the most visited as it was closest to the start. Every control was visited by at least 5 teams with controls 72 and 50 being the least visited. 72 was one of the most distant controls; so there should be fewer visits; I have no explanation for 50. One of the good things from the designer's point of view is that every control except 50 was visited by at least one 3-hour team.

Thanks to Ryan Knecht and Kim Stewart for vetting and putting out the controls. Thanks to Ekaterina Izotova and Dave Gailey for directing parking. Thanks to Sherry Shank, Patti Leibfreid, Kim Stewart and Laurie Opila for handling registration/check-in. Thanks to Jim Wolfe for helping with start/finish. And thanks to Kim Stewart, Eric Steinbring, Lee Bash and Jim Wolfe for doing control pickup.

You can view the splits at Splits

You can view the combined results (all 3-hour grouped and all 6-hour grouped) at Combined Results. The table also shows how many controls each team visited.

You can view a few photos that Alexis Rzewski took at Photos

You can analyze your route and that of others at Livelox

You can analyze your route and that of others using Route Gadget

The next WPOC event will be at North Park 1 on 17 May. Return to the Welcome Page

Babcock Bog & Boulder Challenge 260425
results	created by Ór

EM6	EW6	EB6	MM6	MW6	MB6	VM6	VW6	VB6	EM3
EW3	EB3	MM3	MW3	MB3	VM3	VW3	VB3

EM6 6-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score	Penalty	Bonus
11	Raccoongainer	WPOC	359:45	938	938	0	0

EW6 6-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score	Penalty	Bonus
14	Dreibelbis		353:14	819	819	0	0

EB6 6-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score	Penalty	Bonus
10	Los Topos Locos	NEOOC	353:00	948	948	0	0
24	Cups and String	WPOC	189:39	213	213	0	0

MM6 6-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score	Penalty
1	Ian Whitehead	DVOA	362:12	1776	1827	51
2	Jerkface	ROC	353:20	1683	1683	0
6	The North Hill	NEOOC	340:29	1243	1243	0
15	Andrew Bock		336:09	789	789	0
21	Team G		344:26	402	402	0

MW6 6-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score
3	Run Amuck	ROC	355:12	1428	1428
4	Joey McGarvey	DVOA	352:54	1331	1331
5	Sparkles	ROC	350:30	1259	1259
25	K Rock	OCIN	205:00	146	146

MB6 6-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score
7	Fen-tastically Bolder	NEOOC	354:21	1155	1155
13	Bushwhacked	WPOC	358:19	857	857
19	Coutu Clan		343:47	586	586
26	The Homans	WPOC	259:04	132	132

VM6 6-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score
9	John Pane	WPOC	334:47	1016	1016
16	Ohio Solo	NEOOC	342:31	677	677
18	gmm	ROC	346:59	611	611
22	Adventureman	OCIN	353:10	287	287
23	Jim Cebula	WPOC	328:30	280	280
27	Bob Turanchik	NEOOC	101:29	41	41

VW6 6-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score	Penalty	Bonus
17	Naomi Jarvis	WPOC	345:55	620	620	0	0
20	Tatjana	WPOC	293:36	429	429	0	0

VB6 6-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score	Penalty	Bonus
8	Red Arrow	QOC	342:46	1126	1126	0	0
12	Glacial Speed	CNYO	330:24	934	934	0	0

EM3 3-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score	Penalty	Bonus
1	The Rzewskinator	WPOC	176:23	982	982	0	0
10	Team Boy-O		161:07	337	337	0	0

EW3 3-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score	Penalty	Bonus
14	Ekaterina Izotova	WPOC	206:36	-47	412	459	0

EB3 3-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score	Penalty
6	Irvin Team	WPOC	169:29	465	465	0
7	Team Warewolves		168:28	400	400	0
11	Forest Folk	WPOC	172:02	231	231	0
12	Off Course Yorks		181:48	156	190	34

MM3 3-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score
2	Jonathan Boyer	NEOOC	178:16	769	769
3	Ryan Knecht	WPOC	129:33	589	589
5	Matthew Hasselfield		179:44	510	510

MB3 3-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score	Penalty	Bonus
8	Lost in Pace	WPOC	176:12	399	399	0	0
15	Team Kluckman		194:57	-103	152	255	0

VM3 3-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score	Penalty	Bonus
4	Paul Collinson	QOC	171:02	552	552	0	0
16	Edward Gates		195:10	-120	152	272	0

VW3 3-hr

	Name	Club	Time	Score	Gross Score	Penalty	Bonus
9	Team Shank	WPOC	173:26	392	392	0	0
13	Patti L	WPOC	118:28	43	43	0	0