Umsted South, February 13, 2005

Event Director Gordon Pitz

Saint Anthony of Padua, patron saint of lost persons, and de facto patron saint of orienteers, smiled on the February event. The weather was ideal - not too cold, not too hot, not too much sun, not too cloudy, not too windy, not too calm, and no rain. Fifteen minutes after everything had been put away, the first drops of rain fell.

The courses might best be described as challenging. At least, non-one complained about their being too easy. Every entrant on White was able to finish before the 3 p.m. course closing, although all of the other courses took their toll.

As usual, please let us know if you detect any egregious errors in the results. And my apologies to all those whose names have been misspelled (except for scout troop 207, whose names were almost without exception unreadable!).

My heartfelt thanks to all those who helped: Ken Hanson and Terese Camp for helping to set out controls, and for help at registration; Joe Halloran for registration help; Gary Wiggins for teaching the course and for forgoing the challenge of a run to help out around the tables; Artem Kazantev, Al Geiger, Effie & Nathan Padula, Bill Ebenstein, and The Trianglegrrrls, for collecting and inventorying controls, and Ruth Bromer for help whenever it was needed.