Cabin John

Course results can be seen below. Splits are available on Attackpoint or Winsplits. To enter your routes and see how others went, head to RouteGadget.

There was a mandatory road crossing on the Brown-Blue courses. To ensure that people stopped and took account of the traffic before crossing the road, the road crossing times were deleted from the overall times. The times and places shown below are after the road crossing times were deleted. Also listed was the amount of time deleted.

However, the splits used to create RouteGadget, WinSplits, and AttackPoint do not subtract this time, so the higher time will be reflected there. So, your "real" result for bragging rights is the time/place listed below.

We had a great day of orienteering at Cabin John Park, Maryland. The chilly morning gave way to a beautiful sunny day with clear skies and not much wind, but the ground was soft and wet from the melting snow. We had multiple groups of beginners and even 2 large troops of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts from the same school. There was some friendly competition between the two scout groups when they met and recognized each other. Other groups that came to join us also include 2 Junior ROTC groups and an Outdoor Afro DC group.
We had a total of 154 starts. Unfortunately 17 people did not return by the 3 p.m. course closing time. By 4 p.m., all but one were back. Amy Louden, our chief of timing and results, patiently waited for the missing orienteer while we located his contact information and eventually confirmed that he was safely in his car and on his way home. We gently remind all our participant that it is their responsibility to come in by 3 p.m. and to always check in at the download station so that we can account for everyone who went out into the woods.
Mike Dickey, our superb first-time course designer, received many compliments for his courses. Tom Nolan, Shirley Tan and Mei-An Nolan helped carry all the boxes and equipment to and from the car, set out food and cups for the coffee, hot chocolate and tea. Valerie Meyer and Amy Louden handled the e-punch set up and start/finish tasks and were assisted by Diana Todd, Shirley Tan and Allison Brown. The beginner instructors were Mike Dickey, Mike Stasiowski, Don Fish, Rob Briber, and Alex Merkova. Thank you to 2 families, Bob and Rebecca Rich and Paul and Patrick Hession, who manned the sign-up table and handed out maps. Mei-An and Shirley, and Dasa Merkova, pitched in all day keeping the food and water replenished, watching babies, handing out maps, and even walking dogs. Greg Lennon prepared a huge Igloo of hot water and carried it a long way from the parking lot to our shelter. The hot water was hugely popular and not a drop was left at the end of the day. Tom Nolan, Jon Torrance, Mike Dickey, Alex Merkova, Jan Merka, and Dan Quinn picked up the controls. Amy Louden, Mark Mace, Victor Lin, and our control pickup team sorted the e-punches and controls as they came back. Thank you also to Tom who packed and delivered the Meet Kit to our next meet directors, Allison and Boris.
I am thankful for our community who work together to support our events all season. As always, because of our wonderful volunteers, this event was easy to plan and execute, and a great success. Everyone played an important part, and I am glad to be part of this group.
-Florence Tan, Event Director
Volunteer List: Shirley Tan, Amy Louden, Robert Rich, Rebecca Rich, Paul Hession, Patrick Hession, Mark Mace, Mike Stasiowski, Michael Dickey, Tom Nolan, Francis Hogle, Jon Torrance, Victor Lin, Robert M. Briber, Mei-An Nolan, Don Fish, Dagmar Merkova, Alex Merkova, Jan Merka, Allison Brown, Dan Quinn, Valerie Meyer, Greg Lennon