Horseshoe Lake
2.0-Hour Score-O
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Horseshoe Lake
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This month's desert course took place in a remote part of the Phoenix area, a site I visited for the first time for this event. Horseshoe Lake is no further away from Phoenix than Bartlett Lake, but a bumpy, 8-mile gravel road is a deterrent. In hindsight, we've missed one of the more beautiful sites around Phoenix. With a reservoir on the Verde River, and surrounded by mountains, we'd recommend a visit to Horseshoe Lake for anyone. We offered a shorter Score-O for the event, with controls placed to offer participants a view of the very unique walkway under the Horseshoe Dam spillway and a view on the cliffs overlooking the lake. Dan Yamashiro led the competition by visiting 14 of the 17 points in under two hours. We had out-of-town visitors join us for some navigation fun from Wisconsin (Charlie Shahbazian) and Ohio (Phillip Wadsworth). We're sure they enjoyed some navigation in the desert without all the trees to get in the way. Jeff Rockow and Team True North ignored the time limit and maximized their practice to find as many points as possible. We look forward to offering more events in the scenic Verde Valley northeast of Phoenix. We hope you'll join us for another upcoming event. |
| Course Setters: | Ron Birks |
| Meet Directors: | Ron Birks |
| Bag Hangers: | Ron Birks |
| Water Station Setup: | N/A |
| Equipment Hauling: | Ron Birks |
| Setup/Tear-down: | Ron Birks |
| Registration Table: | Ron Birks |
| Timing Table: | Ron Birks |
| Beginners Clinic: | N/A |
| Control Retrieval: | Dan Yamashiro, Alexandre Savine, Jeff Rockow |
| Tabulating Results: | Ron Birks |
| Score-O | |
| Total Points | 630 |
| Number of Controls | 17 |
| Straight-Line Distance (km) | 6.75 |
| Climb (m) | 325 |
| Total Participants | 18 |
| Number of Minutes | 120 |
| Penalty Per Minute | 10 |
| Finish | Name | Size | Category | Total Points | Penalty | Final Points | Num Controls | Time | M | F | TM | TF | TX | Team Members |
| 1 | Dan Yamashiro | 1 | M | 540 | 0 | 540 | 14 | 1:56:40 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | Sunrise Express | 3 | TM | 470 | 0 | 470 | 14 | 1:59:30 | 1 | Charlie Shahbazian, Raffi Shahbazian, Matthew Shahbazian | ||||
| 3 | Phillip Wadsworth | 1 | M | 370 | 0 | 370 | 11 | 1:55:10 | 2 | |||||
| 4 | Alexandre Savine | 1 | M | 470 | 160 | 310 | 12 | 2:15:45 | 3 | |||||
| 5 | Gary Hickey | 1 | M | 280 | 0 | 280 | 10 | 1:54:00 | 4 | |||||
| 6 | Huskies | 2 | TM | 90 | 0 | 90 | 4 | 1:21:20 | 2 | Gavin Hendricks, Ronnie Hendricks | ||||
| 7 | Jeff Rockow | 1 | M | 630 | 760 | 0 | 17 | 3:15:00 | 5 | |||||
| 8 | True North | 2 | TX | 520 | 980 | 0 | 13 | 3:37:00 | 1 | Greg Krasa, Karen Jelenick |