Chatfield State Park
29 March 2003
When Mike and I went out to Chatfield in early March, the temp was 60+ and
the terrain was barren with a lot of happy dogs running around. All the
ditches and trails were dry. The creek and river were trickles. The
ponds had ample beach. Who would ever have guessed that three feet of snow
would fall a week later, closing the park for several days (not to mention
snowing me in for two days and ironically postponing Adam Feerst's snowshoe-O
event).
On the day of the meet we could have called it the Mud Fest! We were grateful that
people showed up to get dirty, wet and cold. They seemed to like the idea
of the memory courses -- "it was good training", they said. We did make a
couple of mistakes though. We should have used real controls instead of
red paper since they didn't show up well with the snow.
We should have separated the green and red maps more clearly. Where red
and green shared controls but not legs, it was too easy to study the wrong
map. JP and Adam didn't notice this and followed the red legs, then green,
then back to red finishing in 8 controls instead of 16.
It was a fun experiment and a good way to use and reuse a small and
over-used park. Hopefully we'll be able to map other parts of Chatfield
in time for next year.
- Sherry Litasi, Meet Director
Red Memory-O Course Name | Class | Time |
JP Ingebrigtsen | M | 01:03:03 |
Troy Bozarth | M | 01:17:42 |
Scott Powell | M | 01:44:52 |
Gary Smith | M | 02:08:37 |
Ray Weedon | M | DNF (found 12) |
Bob & Christina Ward | T | DNF (found 10) |
Alex Thomas | M | DNF |
|
Green Memory-O Course Name | Class | Time |
Bendix Gadegaard | M | 01:14:45 |
Dmitriy Zamoshchin | M | 01:34:41 |
Jamie Hurley | M | 01:46:17 |
Mike Dieck | M | 01:46:20 |
|
Red/Green/Red Memory-O Course Name | Class | Time |
JP Ingebrigtsen | M | 00:36:15 |
Adam Feerst | M | 00:54:02 |
|
Yellow Course (3.8km) Name | Class | Time |
Tim Wayne & Scott Boren | T | 00:40:25 |
Tina Hemmerling & Toby Stenquist | T | 00:48:20 |
Kristin Jossi | F | 00:38:16 |
Laura Powell | F | 01:07:03 |
Dean Barcus | M | 01:18:39 |
Paul Hassett & Christy Lynch | T | 01:19:39 |
Kymmy & Kaitlyn | T | DNF |
Allison Eddleman | F | DNF |
|
M = Male F = Female T = Team |