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Rattlesnake Hill Rogaine
September 10, 2005
We had a very successful first-ever event using the new Rattlesnake map. The weather was great,
and people seemed to really like the map and the courses that were set. The one disappointment
was the turnout; I was hoping for something like 80-100 people, instead we had around 60 people.
Based on the great weather and the nice publicity from Gary Falleson, I was surprised we didn't
get more day of the meet entrants. Nearly all of the entrants were preregistered;
51 pre-registered and only around 8-9 showed up on the day of the meet without having registered.
The winner of the 12-hour category was a team from Detroit, named The Over the Hill Gang
(Paul Piorkowski and Richard Waldo). They got every control except for one (#60), and they
were only about 10 minutes away from that one with more than an hour and a half left, but
made the very wise decision that if they were going to be in on time, they had to forego that
one. As it was, they came in around 3 minutes before the deadline. For those of you who did any
of the time categories in this rogaine, I'm sure you can appreciate what an achievement it was
to bag 49 out of the 50 controls. I and the other course setters really didn't think that anyone
would have much of a chance to get them all.
In addition to being very good rogainers, this team was also very gracious. They were very
complimentary about the terrain, the map, and the course. They even remarked how they had
competed in the rogaine world championships a few years ago in Arizona, and they thought
our meet was much better than the Arizona meet! They thanked all of the volunteers profusely for our work.
Also, we had an interesting situation with one control (#39). It appears to have been stolen by a bear.
Not kidding. Someone found it a ways from where it was supposed to be, with significant damage to it,
and claw marks on the board for the intention sheet. This nice person put it back in its proper location,
so most of the people who tried for it did find it. We know that Karl looked for it and it was NOT there though!
We're going to credit him with finding this control. Anyone else who can vouch that they did look for it and that
it was not present, please let me know and we'll credit you as well.
Thanks to everyone who helped out with this meet, it was a lot of work and it would have been impossible without
so many people pitching in significantly. I may miss someone, but some of the people who helped were: Joe Seyfried
and spouse, Jim Russell, Eric Barbehenn, Rick Worner, Linda Kohn, Kathy Bannister, Bob Bundy, Linc Blaisdell,
Cheryl Detwiler, Sandra Lomker, Tom Cornell, Rick and Dayle Lavine, Timothy and Paul Gorbold.
Dick Detwiler
Participant's quote
We had a great time and look forward to doing another one. I did not know what the acronym stood for until part
way through the 12 hour competition. I just thought it was a strange name of an orienteering race my friend asked
me to join him on. Both of us had orienteering experience in the bush in Northern Ontario together and solo, but
our priority there was accuracy and not getting lost. The course was extensive, well laid out and well mapped.
The entry fee was a bargain. Given all the things we could have done better, and speed tricks we learnt, I sure
we could do much better. Brains and endurance is the ultimate challenge.
Andrew Fergusson
St Clements, Ontario, Canada
Results
Hrs Team #Point Time Gender Overall Place in Team name Names
category place category
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3 6 882 2:59 Male 1 1 Rob Stevens Rob Stevens
3 8 822 2:52 Female 2 1 TeamToko Sandy Tetreault
3 1 612 2:52 Male 3 2 Asarna Pierre Tetreault
3 10 460 2:55 Male 4 3 Walt Lyons Walt Lyons
3 4 369 2:50 Male 5 4 McKeown Richard McKeown
3 5 369 2:50 Male 6 5 Oldnbald Karl Kolva
3 3 327 2:40 Male 7 6 Linc Blaisdell Linc Blaisdell
3 2 327 2:40 Male 8 7 Bob Kremons Bob Kremons
3 11 327 2:57 Male 9 8 XIDE12 Zachary Kane
3 7 322 2:37 Male 10 9 Straightarrow Michael Wyant
3 12 275 2:46 Female 11 2 Sandra Lomker
3 9 275 2:46 Male 12 3 Two Slow Tom Cornell, Jim Lavine
3 13 171 2:40 Female 13 3 Team Anna
3 14 161 2:39 Mixed 14 1 First Timers
3 15 132 2:20 Male 15 10 Last Minute
3 16 0 Lost car Male 16 11 Keith Ash
6 39 1298 5:57 Male 1 1 Pasha Pavel Korniliev
6 40 1107 5:17 Male 2 2 ROC Bottom Michael Lyons, Nate Lyons
6 42 1106 5:41 Mixed 3 1 The ROCers Linda Kohn, Rick Worner
6 32 1100 5:38 Male 4 3 Dark horse Sergey Dobretsov
6 63 986 5:57 Male 5 4 Disc Golfers on Parade David Levine, Adam Brown
6 37 973 5:36 Male 6 5 M.I.N.O.R. 1 Peter Dady
6 31 950 5:56 Male 7 6 Air Guy Paul Beckwith
6 34 838 5:50 Mixed 8 2 L&M Larry Zygo, Marilyn Zygo
6 36 830 5:55 Male 9 7 Lost & Found Ravi Nareppa
6 41 706 5:43 Male 10 8 The dew sweepers Rick Slattery, Paul Roche
6 44 676 5:55 Male 11 9 Woods Wanderer Joel Shore
6 33 640 5:40 Mixed 12 3 Deja View Paul Schwartz, Anne Schwartz
6 43 594 5:52 Mixed 13 3 Wander Lost Allen Quirk, Anne Kenney
6 35 388 5:46 Male 14 10 Last Again Art Dee, Bob Bundy
6 38 DNS no team David Hanes
12 67 2165 11:55 Male 1 1 The Over The Hill Gang Richard Waldo, Paul Piorkowski
12 68 1897 11:08 Male 2 2 Truffle Shuffle Timothy Gorbold, Paul Gorbold
12 61 1550 11:40 Male 3 3 Adventureheads Tom Wagar, Jim Mollosky
12 65 1426 11:43 Male 4 4 M^2 Robert Maslanka, Gary Maslanka
12 66 1350 11:22 Mixed 5 1 ROC Around the ClocK Richard Lavine, Dayle Lavine
12 64 806 11:31 Male 6 5 Fergusson Dave Fergusson, Andy Fergusson
12 62 479 11:26 Female 7 1 Backtrackers Jane Brennan, Kate Carrier, Joan Funke
Bonus
Detailed team/point summary (PDF)
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