Wildflower Hunt
Sunday, April 9, 2006
GS Camp Whip Poor Will
Sharon Bond, Meet Director
42 people came out in 28 groups to brave the muddy hills of Camp Whip Poor Will for this year's Wildflower Hunt. The day was bright and sunny with highs in the mid 60's, but the camp was extremely muddy due to the previous week's rain. This made for slippery conditions on the infamous Whip Poor Will hills. When someone says that it was easier to just go straight up and down instead of contouring, then you know it's pretty bad. This year's event was held score-style, which meant that you could go out and get just those controls that you wanted to get, depending on how many hills you had to climb. If you went for all 17 on what was considered the optimal route (4.17K, 240m climb), then you would be climbing back up 4 times.
Another complicating factor was all the logging that is being done in the northeast portion of the camp. Those who ventured up to those controls found even more mud and many downed trees. The vegetation boundaries in that part of the camp will be out of whack for a long time until they finish and the area re-establishes itself naturally.
Many, many thanks to John Betts, who helped set water controls, then ran start and finish, and helped pick up controls. Also thanks to Matt Bond for his help in cleaning up the event.
SHS/SJHS - Springboro High/Junior High School
WHS - Wayne High School
HHS - Hamilton High School
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|
Name |
Club/Group |
# Controls |
Time |
|
1 |
Gabe Svobodny |
MVOC |
17 |
52:15 |
|
2 |
Tom Svobodny |
MVOC |
17 |
52:19 |
|
3 |
Matt Bond |
MVOC |
17 |
55:25 |
|
4 |
Kenny Fugate |
OCIN |
17 |
60:04* |
|
5 |
Jeff McPherson |
ORRRC |
17 |
80:20 |
|
6 |
Tom McClory |
MVOC |
17 |
88:00 |
|
7 |
Sergei Preobrazhensky |
COO |
17 |
89:45 |
|
8 |
Matt Runchey |
SHS |
17 |
90:18 |
|
9 |
Rich & Ben Runchey |
SJHS |
17 |
98:20 |
|
10 |
Venturing 48 - Cherry |
BSA |
17 |
99:00 |
|
11 |
Brandon Wilson |
WHS |
17 |
113:31 |
|
12 |
Ryan Clark |
WHS |
17 |
114:31 |
|
13 |
Erick Lebreton |
OCIN |
16 |
82:10 |
|
14 |
Tim Vincent |
OCIN |
15 |
101:08 |
|
15 |
Katie & David Williams |
MVOC/OCIN |
14 |
95:20 |
|
16 |
Cheryl Wenner |
MVOC |
14 |
109:15 |
|
17 |
ROTC - Hamilton JAD |
HHS |
13 |
75:52 |
|
18 |
Becky Schweinfest |
OCIN |
13 |
98:51 |
|
19 |
Sam & Tom Houle |
BSA |
11 |
72:45 |
|
20 |
Irv Martin |
BSA |
11 |
109:00 |
|
21 |
Ben & Matt Bond |
MVOC |
9 |
73:30 |
|
22 |
Zack Simmons & Autumn Ginnen |
SJHS |
1 |
86:00 |
|
23 |
Clark, Rutherford, ??? (The Trio?) |
WHS |
17 |
123:50 (OT) |
|
24 |
Kaitlyn Kohls |
SJHS |
17 |
143:45 (OT) |
|
25 |
Garrett MacDonald |
SJHS |
17 |
173:00 (OT) |
|
26 |
Allyson Bridget |
SJHS |
9 |
166:00 (OT) |
|
27 |
Aaron, Sarah, Dan Sauders |
|
7 |
122:00 (OT) |
|
28 |
ROTC Springboro #2 |
SHS |
|
DSQ |
* After coming in and seeing that he didn't beat Matt Bond, Kenny Fugate ran the course again in reverse order, finishing in just over 46 minutes.