Camp Timberhill at Rentschler Forest MetroPark

December 31, 2020 – January 2, 2021

Course Setter – Mike Minium

Co-sponsored by MetroParks of Butler County

 

Thanks to all volunteers who helped with this event.

Mike Minium – Course Setting, Site Setup and Registration

Matthew Robbins – Results / Download

Laurie Sydzyik and Bob Frey – Beginner Instruction

Guy Olsen – Registration

Beth MacLehose – Route Gadget

Stephanie Ross, Ben Hart, Chiori Shimizu, Shin Shimizu, Amy Lamborg, Joey Richey, Katrina Young – Control Pickup

 

Photos from this event

 

OCIN Route Gadget website – Draw or upload your route!

 

Night course – It was a chilly evening with temperatures hovering around freezing, with a dusting of snow lingering from early that morning.  Skies were partly cloudy, and a waning gibbous moon made a beautiful appearance about an hour after dark. There were 29 controls – about half were white to easy yellow difficulty but some of the remaining ones proved to be quite challenging.  Due to COVID restrictions, we didn’t have our usual indoor space and party, but we did have a nice roaring fire in the fireplace of the outdoor shelter.  We’d asked everybody to finish by 9:45 and be out of the park by 10, and had no problems meeting that goal.

 

New Year’s Day – Are we sure it is not still 2020?  Freezing rain coated roads to the north of the event site, and more than a dozen people called or emailed to say they were not coming because of icy roads.   At the park, it was just rain, but gradually getting heavier.  As people started to arrive, they were commenting on water flooding over a culvert on the park entrance road.   The water rapidly deepened, and soon park rangers were on the scene, and it wasn’t long before they closed the road and started turning people away.   By that time, we had 11 starts and 17 people out on the courses.  So they ran and we waited, while the water rose.  Meantime, park officials agreed to a decision to allow the meet to repeat the next day, so we sent notices to everybody to try again on Saturday.

          One control on green and red courses was across a small creek that had turned into a deep raging torrent.   Most orienteers decided that the risk to life and limb outweighed the value of punching that control, but red runners Dylan Poe and Bill Donnelly both made the decision to cross, and fortunately both survived the attempt.  All other runners on green and red were given credit for completing the course if that was the only control that they skipped; Dylan and Bill still had faster completion times.

Finishers started to return from the courses, and by then the rain had diminished and the flood was receding.  Some finishers had to wait for a short time before being allowed to leave the park, but after a few minutes, a ranger drove through in a Humvee and decided that it was shallow enough to let higher clearance vehicles leave.  Eventually, we got everyone back alive, and by the time the final volunteers (Mike and Matthew) left, the water over the road had been reduced to a sheet just an inch or two deep.   However, some pavement damage and undercutting erosion was noted, so future road repair will have to be in the MetroParks budget.

 

January 2 – The rerun day was nicer – cool, cloudy, and damp.  Most of the northerners who had cancelled out on New Year’s Day made it down and had a great time on the courses.   We used up the rest of the firewood, and the warmth was appreciated as much by event volunteers as the damp and tired finishers.  Plenty of help made quick work of control pickup, and we had everything picked up and were out of the park just after 4:30.

 

 

Results by Course:

Night Score Course – Dec 31

Results by Age Class

Split Times by Courses

 

Score (23)

29 C 1350 Points

3:00:00

 

Place

Name

Team Name

Club

Class

Time

Points

Penalty

Score

 

1

Jasper Ralinovsky

OCIN

Junior M

1:00:02

1350

1350

2

Mathieu Sertorio

OCIN-TJ79

Adult M

1:00:54

1350

1350

3

Sam Richardson

OCIN

Junior M

1:06:02

1350

1350

4

Rob Minto

ICO

Adult M

1:13:05

1350

1350

5

Jim Benton

OCIN

Adult M

1:17:33

1350

1350

6

Caden Lyerly Courtney Lyerly

Team Lyerly

OCIN

Group

1:37:05

1350

1350

7

Brenda Blacklock

ICO

Adult F

2:10:01

1350

1350

8

Michael Darby

OCIN

Adult M

2:15:20

1350

1350

9

Matthew Robbins

OCIN

Adult M

2:20:20

1350

1350

10

Robert Darby

OCIN

Adult M

2:21:37

1350

1350

11

Shane Dawalt

OCIN

Adult M

2:50:58

1350

1350

12

Dave Robinson

OCIN

Adult M

2:52:33

1350

1350

13

Kevin Mitchell

OCIN

Adult M

2:52:46

1350

1350

14

Tim Rouse

OCIN

Adult M

2:58:01

1290

1290

15

Bill Donnelly

OCIN

Adult M

2:30:55

1220

1220

16

Mimi Ruwe Ray Scheidler

Ray and Mimi

OCIN

Adult Grp

2:14:33

1160

1160

17

Amy Lamborg Sue Seplela Mark Sepela

The Nightcrawlers

OCIN

Adult Grp

2:26:48

1110

1110

18

Laurie Sydzyik

OCIN

Adult F

2:50:19

1060

1060

19

Daniel Penman

OCIN

Adult M

2:47:42

1000

1000

20

Samuel Penman

OCIN

Junior M

3:03:15

1100

-120

980

21

Jacob Rodeheffer

OCIN

Adult M

1:00:50

810

810

22

Karen Rekos Dave Lane

Adventure Bear

OCIN

Adult Grp

1:00:08

760

760

23

Mark Richardson

Richardson

None

Adult Grp

2:38:34

740

740

 

 

New Year’s Day – Jan 1

Split Times by Courses

 

1 White (1)

1.6 km

15 Controls

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

2

Jinda Lex Ben Bowerman

None

WO

47:11

0:00

 

 

 

 

2 Yellow (1)

2.3 km

14 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

42

Rex Settlemoir

OCIN

YO

42:57

0:00

 

 

 

 

3 Orange (2)

4.8 km

17 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

49

Hochscheid Hamblin

Hamilton JROTC

OTO

dnf

48

Scott Eberwine

Hamilton JROTC

OM

dnf

 

 

 

 

4 Brown (1)

2.4 km

13 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

47

Troop 990

None

BrnG

dnf

 

 

 

 

5 Green (3)

4.8 km

17 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

10

Michael Darby

OCIN

GrnM

2:10:57

0:00

2

45

Laurie Sydzyik

OCIN

GrnF

2:35:35

+24:38

 

19

Ann Griessmann

OCIN

GrnF

dnf

 

 

 

 

6 Red (3)

6.7 km

19 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

30

Dylan Poe

OCIN

RedM

1:31:05

0:00

2

27

Paul Merchak

OCIN

RedM

2:22:53

+51:48

3

11

Bill Donnelly

OCIN

RedM

2:56:25

+1:25:20

 

 

 

January 2 (same courses as Jan 1)

Results by Age Class

Split Times by Courses

Split Times by Age Class

 

1 White (4)

1.6 km

15 Controls

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

5

Gavin Burkhead

SMOC

WO

27:27

0:00

2

17

Gastrich Family

OCIN

WO

34:07

+6:40

3

50

Camille Jones

None

WO

1:04:39

+37:12

 

57

Alex Eriksson

West Lafayette IS

WTO

mp

 

 

 

 

2 Yellow (7)

2.3 km

14 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

12

Alex Eriksson

West Lafayette IS

YTMSM

21:43

0:00

2

28

Samuel Penman

Home School

YTMSM

34:44

+13:01

3

7

Rebecca Burkhead

SMOC

YO

39:45

+18:02

4

56

Steve Brown

OCIN

YO

40:04

+18:21

5

49

Nancy Griffiths

OCIN

YO

50:47

+29:04

6

51

The Mitros

OCIN

YO

52:48

+31:05

7

31

Julie Puckett

OCIN

YO

1:00:11

+38:28

 

 

 

 

3 Orange (2)

4.8 km

17 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

41

Tim Rouse

OCIN

OM

1:36:12

0:00

 

48

Isis Espinosa Ernesto Morales

Los Rookies

OG

dnf

 

 

 

 

4 Brown (9)

2.4 km

13 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

25

Warren Mandrell

OCIN

BrnM

30:52

0:00

2

26

Thomas Martineau

OCIN

BrnM

39:34

+8:42

3

22

Amy Lamborg

OCIN

BrnF

40:58

+10:06

4

18

Bill Greenwell

OCIN

BrnM

43:04

+12:12

5

16

Robert Frey

OCIN

BrnM

44:05

+13:13

6

38

Matthew Robbins

OCIN

BrnM

44:44

+13:52

7

52

Daniel Penman

OCIN

BrnM

57:52

+27:00

8

54

Rex Settlemoir

OCIN

BrnM

1:12:45

+41:53

9

29

Gayle Pille

OCIN

BrnF

1:30:06

+59:14

 

 

 

 

5 Green (6)

4.8 km

17 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

20

Benjamin Hart

OCIN

GrnM

57:10

0:00

2

40

Stephanie Ross

OCIN

GrnF

1:12:03

+14:53

3

43

Chiori Shimizu

COO

GrnF

1:12:52

+15:42

4

58

Scott Eberwine

Hamilton JROTC

GrnM

2:03:30

+1:06:20

5

39

Dave Robinson

OCIN

GrnM

2:06:43

+1:09:33

6

55

Katrina Young

OCIN

GrnF

2:27:34

+1:30:24

 

 

 

 

6 Red (7)

6.7 km

19 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

13

Mattias Eriksson

CAOC

RedM

1:02:14

0:00

2

6

Joseph Burkhead

SMOC

RedM

1:22:17

+20:03

3

1

Jim Benton

OCIN

RedM

1:30:56

+28:42

4

53

Joseph Richey

OCIN

RedM

1:34:42

+32:28

5

44

Shin Shimizu

COO

RedM

1:45:03

+42:49

6

24

Jonathan Madden

OCIN

RedM

1:55:52

+53:38

 

34

Jasper Ralinovsky

OCIN

RedM

mp

 

 

 

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