Wheaton

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.

Flickr photo album for event is here.

Despite a soggy Saturday and rain until early Sunday morning, the sun broke through and we had a great day for orienteering at Wheaton Regional Park. With 178 pre-registrations, 226 starts and 310 people, the day was enjoyed by many.
These weekly events happen due to the hard work of volunteers, both behind the scenes and day of the event. Thanks goes to quite a few people for this event! VPs Craig Shelden and Mike Newman helped with logistics of the event and permits, ensuring today could happen. Greg Lennon worked hard keeping the website updated, answering countless questions, and handling online registration. Course Designers Addie Nolan and Glenn Pastel designed and set up fun and challenging courses. Addie and Tom Nolan worked diligently Saturday (in the rain no less) to ensure controls were up and ready.
Don Fish was at Wheaton bright and early, bringing the kit, helping with set up, making sure signs were displayed properly to point attendees in the right direction, setting up start/finish, helping with beginner instruction and packing up…amongst the many, many other things he does for QOC. Thank you SO much, Don.
Ninely Murphy arrived early to help with set up (and popping to my house to pick up a forgotten item). Harry Jones, Greg Palardy and Allison Gerson (a first-time volunteer!) handled registration with ease. Joe Pastel, Jason and Meilynn Hataye (still our youngest volunteer!), Sydney Dixon and John Baker gave beginner instruction to anyone new or who wanted a refresher. Lydia Andrews stepped in and answered questions regarding maps and beginner instruction as well! Adam Smith set up a fun course for juniors and graciously opened it up to any one who wanted to test out a beginner's course.
Vido Aleksiev recruited a couple new volunteers today – we cannot stress enough how much we value our volunteers and love when newcomers express interest in volunteering. To find out more, click here:
https://www.qocweb.org/content/volunteer.
Thanks to Matt Smith for bringing two delicious cakes to bid farewell to a friend and valued club member. Those of us who stayed later thoroughly enjoyed the sugar rush.
Control pick-up was handled by a most superb team: Michal Jarnik, Beàtri Bennett, Steve Camp, Tom Wells, Joe Barrett, Mathais Holmqvist (another first-time volunteer!), John Baker and Jared Silk. Thank you for going back out after running your own courses!
Clean-up was a breeze with the help of many: Don Fish, Jenny Kuenz, Beàtri Bennett, Michael Jarnik and Sydney Dixon.
As always, thank you to our amazing e-punch team: Amy Louden (who also makes delicious cookies for every single event) and Valerie Meyer (who prints out all the maps and clue sheets for every single event with hubby Roger Meyer).
Behind the scenes thank you: Kathleen Lennon for all her hard work on social media (did you know she runs QOC’s Facebook, Instagram and Flickr pages?), and Sid Sachs for providing stats and tallying points after every event.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: it takes a village. Thank you to this amazing village for making QOC events such a huge success.
See you in the woods! (Please say hello!)
- Sharmagh Yepremian, Event Director