RABBIT CREEK MINI-ROGAINE 2007 OFFICIAL RESULTS Control CR (southern boulder, east side) 25points!! Looking south to the start and finish -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Mini-Rogaine event at Rabbit Creek was well attended this year, with 27 participants out in the field in the rogaine, intermediate and beginner courses combined. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There were fourteen total participants on the challenging 4 hour mini rogaine. Nine individual men One team of three men One team of one man and one woman The winner's course covered approximately 25km in the difficult terrain, and included approximately 2800ft of climb. No control was visited by everyone Every control had at least two punches -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Tobin demonstrated for us all why he is the World Champion and we aren't! http://www.eliteadventureteam.com/html/home.html Michael was the only participant to reach all 27 controls in the allotted time and he was also first to return to the finish with 17 minutes still remaining! We think it was a clean win, since no helicopters were seen over the course while he was on it. Michael thought he had finished when he reached his last control, MR, closest to the finish and then took another look at his punch card. He noticed he still had to get P-9, so he ran out at least another 3 km round trip to bag it and still returned to the finish with time to spare! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Black recieves the award for the best effort by a mere mortal. He missed only the distant and lonely P-9 Please see his exellent blow by blow description of the course as he ran it on his website: http://sageandsky.net/Races/RabbitCreek07/index.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lee Scott and Ole Bergset battled it out for 3rd place with Lee beating out Ole by 2 minutes However, Ole wins two awards: The pure pure grit award for when he took the direct route from P-6 to P-7 going straight accross the deepest part of rabbit creek canyon, going 380ft straight down, 560 ft straight up, and then 360 ft straight down to the control all in about 1km horizontal distance. Ole also wins the award for time management, with 2 seconds remaining before receiving penalty points! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rogaine 345 pts possible 27 controls Michael Tobin 345pts/345pts 27 controls/27controls 3hrs 43mins ! Jeff Black 330 pts 26 controls Lee Scott 270pts 21 controls Ole Bergset 270pts 19 controls Nick Stover, Brad Acker, and Jay Merritt (Team Tamarack) 265pts 17 controls Doug LaMott 260pts 21 controls Peter Ashwin and Renee Kline 255pts 19 controls Bill Leahy 235pts 17 controls Russ Pilcher 230pts 19 controls Mike B 220pts 17 controls David Bergset 150pts 12 controls Karin Didisse 105pts 11 controls -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intermediate Course Six participants took advantage of the more traditional intermediate course. 10 controls over 5.5 km on the 1:10,000map Sergey Velichko* 46 mins Masha Velichko 1hr 47mins (shadowed by Sergey) Bob Didisse 2hrs 07mins Jay Morgan 2hrs 18mins Dondi Black 2hrs 24mins Charlie Solomon DNF *Sergey ran the intermediate course in 46 minutes without a map, by memory, after shadowing Masha on the first run. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beginner's Course Lee Scott (ran as a warm up for Rogaine, definitely not a beginner!) 11minutes! Charlie Solomon 34minutes Hall Family (Kevin, Jacob, Justin, Jonah, Joseph, Kecia, and Roaq'lee 54 minutes The Hall Family possibly had the most fun of anyone at Rabbit Creek. Working as a family and a team they knocked off all the controls and all returned with smiles! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Award Award The all time award for best awards goes to Russ Pilcher for the outstanding limited edition prints by Ian Ramsay of Point CR given to all participants! Thanks again!! see ya next year??? Bill Pilcher