Discussion: photos and results

photos
preparation
race day

Unofficial results:
[3-hr]
440 Jonestown
380 Eric Mencke
380 Will Austin
330 Reckless Abandon
320 Team Coolidge
240 Stobarts
230 Ryan Knecht
210 Andrew Kojzar
210 The Tall and the Small
210 BLACKfrosting
200 This is what happens Larry
180 Maptitude
170 Team Wildman
130 Tig ol' Bit-daze
120 The Dillion Panthers
110 Team Immelmann
100 Gil Even
100 The Awesome Dawsons
80 Sherry Shank
70 Nighthawks
40 End6anme
-60 Fab Four

[6-hr]
1080 Hail to the Chimp
930 MMM
930 Scott Angove
920 Mr Wonderful
920 Kimmo Berg
850 Crazy Tom
850 Denis Anisimov
840 Francis Boscoe
810 Howler Monkeys
800 Team Nadav
780 Dan Marincel
750 Wishin' I was Fishin'
740 Todd Pownell
720 Glacial Speed
700 Cooper Green
690 Dan Beggs
690 Riley Jane
680 Bee Ringers
(lost card, reported 670) Rookies
670 Bob Boltz
670 Andy Strat
670 Time Management
660 Team Spang
660 The Flying Figs
650 Punishment
640 Beavis
640 Blondish & Polish
630 John Ralston
630 Brian Thomas
630 Kirkham Brothers
620 Team MK
600 Erin Rycroft
580 Victorius Seekers
560 RoughRiders
520 Yaki Barak
540 Just Having Fun
540 Michelle Green
530 Lisa Storey
510 WTF (Where's the Finish)
500 Jerry Agin
490 Kathy Jo Rufener
490 Gordon Huang
480 Team Ouroboros
480 Works4Justice
480 Barely Making it
450 Honey Badgers
450 Will Orienteer for Beer
430 South Coast Canuck
430 Kevin Peterson
390 Mountain Meisters I
340 Mountain Meisters II
300 Velvet Narwhals
290 Kevin Koenigsknecht
270 Finks
210 Richard Davies
180 Master Mart
170 Pete Eisert
90 Tumbleweeds
70 The Biddies
60 Kit Eagon

I just wanted to give a few words of thanks to sherpes and his fine team of volunteers for putting on a really fun event. It was quite interesting terrain on a very acceptable map, course setting that made the selection of a route very challenging, friendly registration process, fine food after the finish, and even weather that made a nice one-day respite from the snow-covered ground and single-digit temperatures that upstate NY has been furnishing in the last few weeks. In advance we weren't quite sure whether a six-hour drive each direction was really going to be an acceptable price to pay for a six-hour event, but attendance turned out to be a really good decision! I am wondering whether it might be possible to get an electronic version of the map in a pdf, png, gif or some such representation so that it would be easy to examine the gps track of our route from my datalogger superimposed on the map in Quickroute.

Sherpes put up a course map here

Michigan had a great time. Last year was one car load, this year two. Next year three?

@eldersmith
what are nightcrawlers called in the daytime?

The Nightcrawlers become Glacial Speed in the daytime, more typically in snogaine events. It was convenient that the hills near Pittsburgh were totally free of snow and we could crawl a little faster (except through the occasional patch of greenbriar)

the electronic version is available at the link above, and if you could draw your routes on it and send it to either me or raccoongaine at gmail dot com, i will post them on the flickr set at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/105483324@N04/sets/72...

Next year three car loads?

We will have Detroit provide the vehicles, and Pennsylvania provide the petrol.

fine team of volunteers

you're right about that. Even the park rangers came to thank us in a way, for bringing so many out-a-tawners into this park (i think that at the end of the year, when the park manager must make a year-end assessment on utilization, the budget for the following years assigned to each park by the state central office is proportional on past utilization. Soooo.... they are happy to see a big crowd use their park...)

Does it mean that we can expect registration limit expention next year? :-)

official results are posted. A detailed race commentary will be posted here later today or tomorrow.

Thanks to WPOC for having such a fun and high quality event. Very much appreciated!

Moved photos to this album