Lapland Lake December 21, 2008
My mother often cautions, "Be careful what you wish for."
I don't think it is unreasonable to wish for snow for an opener of
a Nordic ski season. The first ski orienteering qualifier this year
was at Lapland Lake Ski Center on December 21. When I started
setting out controls on Thursday, December 18 conditions were
beautiful. There had to be a minimum of 18 inches of cold soft snow
in the woods. The trails, as usual, were immaculately groomed by
smaller equipment (no heavy equipment yet) so that there was a good
six inches of packed powder over an icy base. I had three courses
planned:
- Orange Course - 3.6 k and 8 controls for recreational,
snowshoers, groups, and for scholastic Empire State Games qualifier;
- Green Course - 6.2 k and 12 controls for grandmaster, master
Empire State Games qualifier; and
- Red Course - 7.6 k and 12 controls for open Empire State Games
qualifier.
On Thursday I hung 11 of the 19 planned controls. Then it started
to snow. By Sunday morning there was an additional foot of snow in
the woods and it continued to snow, heavy at times during the
morning. This made it difficult to drive to Lapland Lake from
Clifton Park even though my daughter, Jill, drove her all wheel
drive vehicle. The snow was accumulating enough to scare away all
but the most devoted ski orienteering competitors. The falling snow
was a cold snow which made conditions slow for hanging the rest of
the controls.
Conditions obviously favored classic technique skiing. We had 10
competitors complete their respective courses and another two
credited with a start, who made sufficient headway but were
concerned over being able to finish in under 2 hours.
Many thanks to Gabor Bobok who ran the chip timing and Ann
Christoffel for keeping registration and starts flowing.
Next year I will have all the controls hung ahead of time. I don't
think that participants in the mornings cross country ski race had
any advantage. Also, registration will open immediately after the
last finish of the cross country ski race, about noon and the
courses will be designed so that a set of controls can be collected
starting right at registration close...say at 1:30 PM so that
process can be completed before dark.
- Eric Hamilton
Pl Stno Name/Club Time
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Orange (4) 3.6 km 0 Cm 8 C
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1(124) 2(37) 3(121) 4(39) 5(123) 6(33) 7(32) 8(128) F
1 5 Stephanie Crocker 49:57 04:35 12:38 23:28 25:57 31:59 38:50 43:17 46:21 49:57
04:35 08:03 10:50 02:29 06:02 06:51 04:27 03:04 03:36
2 8 Kati Christoffel 1:14:40 03:07 10:23 22:15 32:03 50:47 1:00:36 1:06:01 1:09:58 1:14:40
03:07 07:16 11:52 09:48 18:44 09:49 05:25 03:57 04:42
3 6 Larry Crocker 1:25:20 04:26 12:49 26:38 30:15 46:19 1:01:27 1:10:32 1:20:07 1:25:20
04:26 08:23 13:49 03:37 16:04 15:08 09:05 09:35 05:13
4 7 Stephen Granger-Bevan 1:45:49 06:59 26:27 42:56 48:02 1:05:18 1:18:17 1:28:41 1:37:55 1:45:49
06:59 19:28 16:29 05:06 17:16 12:59 10:24 09:14 07:54
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Green (3) 6.2 km 0 Cm 12 C
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1(126) 2(33) 3(32) 4(129) 5(125) 6(121) 7(39) 8(40) 9(110) 10(38) 11(123) 12(128) F
1 1 Doug Swank 1:24:55 06:00 18:04 22:44 26:35 35:42 45:26 50:08 1:02:25 1:06:38 1:11:30 1:15:18 1:21:59 1:24:55
06:00 12:04 04:40 03:51 09:07 09:44 04:42 12:17 04:13 04:52 03:48 06:41 02:56
2 2 Jim Pamper 1:28:38 06:21 22:39 26:39 29:11 37:24 49:31 51:35 1:03:33 1:08:16 1:13:50 1:18:56 1:25:17 1:28:38
06:21 16:18 04:00 02:32 08:13 12:07 02:04 11:58 04:43 05:34 05:06 06:21 03:21
12 Thayer Raines DNF 12:36 33:02 39:26 42:45 52:45 1:08:01 1:11:15 1:22:23 1:27:36 1:33:55 1:39:47 ----- 1:51:29
12:36 20:26 06:24 03:19 10:00 15:16 03:14 11:08 05:13 06:19 05:52 11:42
Candice Raines DNF
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Red (4) 7.6 km 0 Cm 12 C
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1(35) 2(175) 3(129) 4(33) 5(125) 6(121) 7(107) 8(106) 9(122) 10(38) 11(123) 12(128) F
1 4 Alison Crocker 1:08:34 05:24 10:10 14:43 17:40 22:51 30:37 34:01 46:57 54:22 56:12 1:00:30 1:05:27 1:08:34
05:24 04:46 04:33 02:57 05:11 07:46 03:24 12:56 07:25 01:50 04:18 04:57 03:07
2 10 Pavel Korniliev 1:17:34 06:31 10:54 16:53 20:39 25:54 33:55 36:46 57:47 1:03:58 1:06:28 1:09:40 1:14:24 1:17:34
06:31 04:23 05:59 03:46 05:15 08:01 02:51 21:01 06:11 02:30 03:12 04:44 03:10
3 9 Sergey Dobretsov 1:29:50 15:27 21:02 25:52 29:42 35:14 44:38 48:07 1:04:45 1:13:04 1:16:22 1:20:40 1:26:09 1:29:50
15:27 05:35 04:50 03:50 05:32 09:24 03:29 16:38 08:19 03:18 04:18 05:29 03:41
3 Kato Fellegi DNF 15:12 26:40 39:17 48:01 1:00:55 ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- 34:31
15:12 11:28 12:37 08:44 12:54
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