2006 US Trail Orienteering Championships

The 2006 US Trail Orienteering Championships were held at Spooner Lake in Lake Tahoe State Park, Nevada, on the afternoon of June 24th after the regular A Meet in the National Forest across the road. Course setters/event directors were Karen Dennis and David Irving. The map used was a portion of the Spooner Lake map produced in 1997 by George Kirkov for BAOC, with updates and adaptations for trail orienteering by David Irving. Map scale was 1:5000 for both regular and timed controls.

There were originally 11 regular control points and two timed controls. One of the regular control points (#4) had to be thrown out. Early in the competition one of the 5 flags at that point had fallen down and couldn't been seen by the early competitors. Later someone set the flag back up and late competitors had no problem with control 4. Due to the unfairness the event directors did not score that control point. A protest was filed on control point #8 and it was examined by a jury of Scott Drumm, Mike Poulson, and Abby Wolfe. The jury disallowed the protest. As a result scoring is based on a total of 12 controls. Competitors whose time is given as DNF did the regular controls, but skipped the timed controls rather than wait for the timers to be available, so their score is out of a total of 10 controls.

Congratulations to our winners: Mike Poulson - 1st Place, Clare Durand - 2nd Place, and Malcolm Wyatt-Mair - 3rd Place.

Thanks to the Bay Area Orienteering Club for all their assistance, and for the use of their map. Especial thanks to Steve Beuerman for his help with registration and control pickup, and to Ev and Jean for help with scoring. And a big thanks to Dan Felitsky of SDO for picking up nearly half of the controls.

Position Last Name First Name Club Class Number Correct Total Secs Percent Correct 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 T1 T2
Correct Answers       12   100 N B N C D C N A A D N D B
1 Poulsen Mike CROC Open 10 108 83.333       --           C     A
2 Durand Clare LAOC Open 9 22 75       --       B   C B    
3 Wyatt-Mair Malcolm BAOC Open 9 108 75 A     --             C C  
4 Lanam Jeff BAOC Open 8 37 66.667 B   D --       B     A    
5 Cooley Bob BAOC Open 8 38 66.667 A   A --     B       B    
6 Felitsky Dan SDO Open 8 82 66.667   N A --           C B    
7 Drumm Scott CROC Open 8 94 66.667     A --     D   D   B    
8 Breseman Ryan COC Open 8 96 66.667 C     --     B       B   C
9 Wolfe Abby COC Open 8 98 66.667       --         D C B   C
10 Urban Jan SDO Open 8 141 66.667     D --             B B A
11 Smith Steve BAOC Open 8 149 66.667       --     E C     B   D
12 Kerr Jennifer GCO Open 8 175 66.667     A --         D   B   OT
13 Lewis Robert BAOC Open 7 34 58.333 A C A -- N   B            
14 Dull Ardis COC Open 7 94 58.333 A     --   B     D   B   C
15 Jacobs Marsha BAOC Open 7 146 58.333   A A --           C B C  
16 Breseman Kelsey COC Open 7 164 58.333     A -- A           B C C
17 Johnson Rosemary BAOC Open 6 87 50   A A -- B       D   B   D
18 Krantz Trish SDO Open 6 94 50 A C A --   B     D     C  
19 Weber Nik GCO Open 6 109 50 A   C --   B D B         C
20 Wyatt-Mair Gavin BAOC Open 6 124 50 A   A -- C B         B C  
21 Corsano Nick BAOC Open 6 133 50   C D --       B   C B C  
22 Doti Adam BAOC Open 6 147 50 A C C --     B       B C  
23 Koehler Judy BAOC Open 6 189 50   A C --   N         B B C
24 Freund Dwight GCO Open 6 197 50     B --   B     B   B OT C
25 Kirschenbaum Leif BAOC Open 6 200 50     A -- A       D   A C C
26 Genovesi Mary Lynn NTOA Open 6 DNF 50 A   C --         B   B DNF DNF
27 Carson Paul ARCT Open 5 70 41.667   C A --   B B   B E A    
28 Papendick Bill BAOC Open 5 85 41.667 A   A -- E A         B    
29 Wyatt-Mair Nina BAOC Open 5 119 41.667 A C C -- C           B   OT
30 Wemmer Lauren GCO Open 5 134 41.667 A   A --     B N C   B   C
31 Poppe Luc BAOC Open 5 147 41.667 B N A -- A A         B   C
32 Nuss Patrick OK Open 5 150 41.667 A   A --     B B B       A
33 Beuerman Steve BAOC Open 5 171 41.667 A C   --       B D   D B C
34 Urbanova Anna SDO Open 5 181 41.667 C N D -- N           B B A
35 Fish Jim BAOC Open 5 217 41.667 A   A -- C   B       C B OT
36 Luis Cristina NTOA Open 5 222 41.667 A   A -- C       B   B C C
37 Keating Marina BAOC Open 4 119 33.333 A   C -- E A B     N A C  
38 Beuerman Ev BAOC Open 4 128 33.333 A   C -- E A C B     B C  
39 French Dean BAOC Open 4 137 33.333 C   D -- C   N   N N B B  
40 Maffei Joe BAOC Open 4 162 33.333 A   D --   B B   D   B B C
41 Wyatt-Mair Arwen BAOC Open 4 177 33.333 A   D -- C   B   C   B B OT
42 Breseman Eileen COC Open 4 212 33.333 B   A --     B B C   B C C
43 Verhoeven Theo BAOC Open 4 217 33.333 A A C --       C A/C   C C A
44 Aster Scott BAOC Open 4 DNF 33.333     A -- E B B     C B DNF DNF
45 Linderman Nancy BAOC Open 4 DNF 33.333 C   A --   A A B C     DNF DNF
46 Genovesi Mike NTOA Open 4 DNF 33.333 A   C -- B   A N     B DNF DNF
47 Petty Dave BAOC Open 3 115 25 A A D -- B   A C C   B   A
48 Wyatt-Mair Kelsey BAOC Open 3 136 25 B C B -- C   D   D E B   A
49 Roos Joan BAOC Open 3 155 25 B   A -- E B B   D C B C  
50 Lew Ken COC Open 3 159 25   C B -- A A B   D   B B A
51 Gilmore William BAOC Open 3 164 25 B C D -- A B B       B C C
52 Gillis Trinka BAOC Open 3 164 25 A C C -- A B D     A B C  
53 Kirkland Michael LAOC Open 3 DNF 25 A   A -- A B D   B   B DNF DNF
54 Winterbottom Rex BAOC Open 3 DNF 25   N C --   B A   A/B E B DNF DNF
55 Blair Marit BAOC Open 3 DNF 25 A   A --   A B   C N B DNF DNF
56 Carson Kandra ARCT Open 3 DNF 25   C A --   B B   B C A DNF DNF
57 Timmerman Sherry ARCT Open 3 DNF 25 B C A --     B   D C C DNF DNF
58 Kirkland Michele LAOC Open 2 DNF 16.667 C C A -- A B D     B B DNF DNF
59 Shakhnovsky Galena BAOC Open 1 202 8.3333 B C C -- C B C   C A A B C
  Spalding Chuck BAOC Open 0 DNS 0                          
  Custer Evan BAOC Open 0 DNS 0                          

Last updated July 7, 2006

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