Well, that was different! QOC's first ski-O - at least that we can recall - drew quite an international crowd, with skiers hailing originally from six different countries. Keep in mind that this was intended all along to be a pretty low key training event ... but it certainly answered event impresario Jan Merka's question of whether there was enough interest!
Among competition highlights, we'd like to single out US Ski-O Team member Scott Pleban's 43 minute speed run on the long course (no wonder he's headed to Europe for championship races within a month), and also call your attention to the honorable showing by the self-anointed first-ever Brazilian Ski-O team of Andre Novaes and Cunha Rolemberg.
New! RouteGadget now contains the map from this event. If you're about to enter your route, click the small blue "i" button next to the Laurel Ridge event name for information about how to enter data for this non-epunch event.
As for photos, there are several places online to see photos from this event, including these from Alexis Rzewski.
Who made this happen? Courses were set by Jan Merka. Dagmar Merkova, Kathleen and Greg Lennon were freezing at the start and finish writing down times, and the control pickup was done by Scott Pleban, Nadim Ahmed, Jon Torrance and Jan Merka.
| Place | Name | Club | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ragnhild Skjaevestad | QOC Norway | 75:20 |
| 2 | Peggy Dickison | QOC USA | 91:32 |
| 3 | Greg Lennon | QOC USA | 93:00 |
| 4 | Dave Hauver & Chris Stever & Starr Wilbraham | QOC USA | 180:58 |
| 5 | Scott Pleban (2nd course) | QOC USA | NC (34:32) |
| 6 | Jon Torrance (2nd course) | QOC Canada | NC (50:50) |
| 7 | Alexis Rzewski & David Battista (2nd course) | WPOC Italy | DNF |
| 7 | Bob Dobson (2nd course) | QOC USA | DNF |
| 7 | Kathleen Lennon | QOC USA | DNF |
| Place | Name | Club | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott Pleban | QOC USA | 43:16 |
| 2 | Jan Merka | QOC Czech Repulic | 52:46 |
| 3 | Jon Torrance | QOC Canada | 55:06 |
| 4 | Bjorn Skjaevestad | QOC Norway | 65:04 |
| 5 | Dagmar Merkova | QOC Czech Repulic | 69:46 |
| 6 | Nadim Ahmed | QOC USA | 113:12 |
| 7 | Tom Strat | QOC USA | 114:31 |
| 8 | Cunha Rolemberg | Brazil | 114:36 |
| 9 | Andre Novaes | Brazil | 115:50 |
| 10 | Alexis Rzewski & David Battista | WPOC Italy | 126:54 |
| 11 | Bob Dobson | QOC USA | 140:48 |
| 12 | Tom Gray | WPOC USA | 140:49 |
| 13 | Ted Good | QOC USA | 144:33 |
| 14 | Lisa Beck | QOC USA | 169:00 |
| 15 | James Chaplin | QOC USA | DNF |
