Twelve Mile

February 5, 2022

Event Director: Jim Benton

Course Planning: Stephanie Ross (very minor assistance by Mike Minium)

 

Thanks to Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church for providing the use of their pavilion, parking, and restrooms to access the Twelve Mile Preserve.  Special Thanks to Jim and Valerie Benton!

 

Thanks to all volunteers who helped with this event!

Guy Olsen and Mike Minium – Registration

Matthew Robbins and Mike Minium – Download and Results

Thurston Miller – Season Standings

Beth MacLehose – Route Gadget

Maliki Clarkston, Jim Benton, Mike Minium – Salt and Gravel, Set-up, Traffic Control

Jim Benton, Brenda Blacklock, Amy Lamborg, Mike Minium, Aidan Minto, Rob Minto, Jasper Ralinovsky, Rex Settlemoir, Laurie Sydzyik – Control Pickup and Clean up

Rex Settlemoir – Photography

 

The day started out brutally cold and cloudy, but fortunately with little to no wind.  Temperatures warmed a little through the day, but never approached the freezing mark, and the sun even made a very brief appearance.  While the roads to the site were reasonably clear, the steep hill to the church parking lot was another story, a sheet of ice.  Jim Benton, Mike Minium and Maliki Clarkston spread 150 pounds of salt, and a large quantity of gravel on the slope as orienteers started to arrive.   Most of the arriving orienteers were greeted at the foot of the driveway with advice to park along the shoulder of Shaw-Goetz Road to the SE, unless they had a four-wheel drive vehicle.  The advice was good – some ignored it and attempted to ascend, but only those with four-wheel drive completed the ascent to the school parking lot.  Finally, about the time that starts were scheduled to close, the company hired to clear the driveway showed up, and at least by the time orienteers were finishing courses and ready to depart, they could descend safety without fear of sliding over the edge or into Twelve Mile Creek.

 

The orienteering itself was an adventure.  Courses planned by Stephanie Ross might have been a bit shorter than normal, but the steep hills of Twelve Mile more than made up for it.  Added to that was a thin layer of powdery snow over an inch or so of ice and compacted sleet.  The going was slippery, and for those without studded or spiked shoes, it was a constant battle to remain upright.

 

An 1883 map of the area shows some interesting history.  Control 77 was in the ruins of H Chalk’s barn; Control 69 was under a new stone bridge built by Jim Benton, and is near the ruins of Peter Chalk’s home.  The Catholic Church and School was there in 1883, but doubtless not the present-day buildings.  I suspect that some of the graves in the church cemetery must date to those days.  Orienteers who parked on Shaw-Goetz Road may have noticed the old stone building on the east corner of Shaw-Goetz and California Crossroad; that is identified as Jac Spitzelberger’s Saloon.

 

 

TROL Season Standings

 

WARS Season Standings

 

Photos from this event

 

OCIN Route Gadget website – Draw or upload your route!

 

 

Results by Age Class

 

Split Times by Courses

 

Split Times by Age Class

 

Results by Course:

1 White (6)

1.4 km

10 Controls

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

48

Cora Wynkoop

E.H. Greene IS

WhiteTrolPS-F

18:50

0:00

2

33

Joan Ragusa

OCIN

WhiteOpen

32:29

+13:39

3

49

Isaac Wynkoop

Blue Ash ES

WhiteTrolPS-M

34:33

+15:43

4

59

Elliott Lyerly

Blue Ash ES

WhiteTrolPS-M

39:06

+20:16

5

30

Lucia Neal

West Lafayette IS

WhiteTrolPS-F

43:19

+24:29

 

58

Everett Lyerly

Blue Ash ES

WhiteTrolPS-M

dnf

 

 

 

 

2 Yellow (5)

2.4 km

13 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

43

Rex Settlemoir

OCIN

YellowOpen

1:06:21

0:00

2

57

Caden Lyerly

E.H. Greene IS

YellowTrolMS-M

1:07:19

+0:58

3

13

Yuan-Ming Hsu

None

YellowOpen

1:12:05

+5:44

4

14

Dai-Yan Ji

None

YellowOpen

1:12:49

+6:28

 

60

Maliki Clarkston

Union County HS

YellowTrolOpen

dnf

 

 

 

 

3 Orange (7)

3.2 km

15 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

8

Alex Eriksson

West Lafayette IS

OrangeTrolJV-M

47:04

0:00

2

54

Aaron Jouwstra

Home School

OrangeTrolJV-M

1:09:59

+22:55

3

53

Isaac Jouwstra

Home School

OrangeTrolJV-M

1:18:27

+31:23

4

6

Michael Bordner

OCIN

OrangeM

1:51:22

+1:04:18

5

15

Stephanie Jordan

None

OrangeGroup

2:38:17

+1:51:13

6

31

Paula Pompilio

None

OrangeGroup

2:38:55

+1:51:51

 

32

Dominic Ragusa

Home School

OrangeTrolJV-M

mp

 

 

 

 

4 Brown (13)

2.2 km

11 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

22

Warren Mandrell

OCIN

M65+

47:19

0:00

2

24

Pat Meehan

OCIN

M65+

51:59

+4:40

3

5

Brenda Blacklock

ICO

F55+

53:44

+6:25

4

37

Matthew Robbins

OCIN

BrownM

54:01

+6:42

5

25

Takanobu Minami

OCIN

BrownM

55:20

+8:01

6

52

Andy Orth

OCIN

BrownM

1:02:41

+15:22

7

41

Tim Rouse

OCIN

BrownM

1:05:21

+18:02

8

36

Ellen Richey Joseph Richey

The Toefeets

BrownGroup

1:14:12

+26:53

9

29

Kevin Mitchell

OCIN

BrownM

1:18:10

+30:51

10

16

Amy Lamborg

OCIN

F55+

1:32:44

+45:25

11

1

Ann Almstedt

COO

BrownF

2:13:40

+1:26:21

 

10

Isis Espinosa Ernesto Morales

Los Rookies

BrownGroup

mp

12

Bill Greenwell

OCIN

M65+

mp

 

 

 

 

5 Green (8)

4.5 km

17 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

20

Jonathan Madden

OCIN

GreenM

1:26:03

0:00

2

17

Wenzhe Li

OCIN

GreenM

1:36:36

+10:33

3

18

Catherine Lyerly

OCIN

F35+

1:50:14

+24:11

4

55

Tim Jouwstra

Home School

GreenTrolV-M

1:56:16

+30:13

5

35

Joe Ratermann

OCIN

M55+

2:08:14

+42:11

6

56

Dave Jouwstra

Home School

GreenM

2:12:20

+46:17

7

46

Laurie Sydzyik

OCIN

F45+

2:43:38

+1:17:35

 

38

Dave Robinson

OCIN

M55+

mp

 

 

 

 

6 Red (11)

5.7 km

24 C

 

Place

Stno

Name

Club

Class

Time

Diff.

 

1

27

Aidan Minto

ICO

M-20

56:48

0:00

2

9

Mattias Eriksson

ICO

M35+

58:39

+1:51

3

34

Jasper Ralinovsky

OCIN

M-20

1:11:46

+14:58

4

42

Mathieu Sertorio

OCIN

M35+

1:20:34

+23:46

5

28

Robert Minto

ICO

M45+

1:25:26

+28:38

6

4

Brian Baker

OLOU

M35+

1:28:49

+32:01

7

51

Ben Harris

OCIN

M35+

1:35:08

+38:20

8

11

Justin Feaster

OLOU

M35+

1:36:04

+39:16

9

3

Andrew Bak

OCIN

M-21+

1:48:36

+51:48

10

19

Courtney Lyerly

OCIN

M35+

2:01:37

+1:04:49

11

7

Bill Donnelly

OCIN

M45+

3:29:23

+2:32:35

 

 

 

 

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