Lewis and Clark Cup 2005
It was a dark and stormy morning... NO, WAIT, that was last year's rogaine! An absolutely gorgeous fall day greeted the 80 competitors in the 8th edition of the Lewis and Clark Cup Rogaine. The competitors were from as far away as the Ukraine as well as KY, IN, OH, IL, KS, WI, and MI. Ages ranged from 15 to 68. The map was a USGS 1:24000 topo with 10-foot contours consisting of part of the Harrison-Crawford State Forest seven miles west of Corydon, IN. Thanks go to Property Manager Duane Sieg for his assistance in gaining permission to use this beautiful forest property for our event. Sixteen teams competed in the 8-hour and eighteen in the 4-hour. There were 52 controls worth a total of 286 points. The Lewis & Clark Cup champions SOUPBONE EXPRESSO (Charlie Shahbazian-WI and Joseph Sackett-IL) collected 36 control worth 224 points. The first place team in the 4-hour APOLLO # 2 (Spenser Girten and Kevin Hardesty from KY) found 11 controls for 41 points. Two controls were totally ignored by all competitors: KD5 and UT5. The most popular controls were BA1 (nearest the start/finish) and AI3 (near a water stop). Two controls had problems. EJ3 was punched by one 4-hour team but then went missing before any other team visited it. AF9 was either placed incorrectly or it went missing also. My apologies for the time lost on these controls. Points were awarded to the teams that visited these control locations. I want to thank all of the competitors for taking the time to come out and compete in the Lewis & Clark Cup. Thanks also go to OLOU club members Eric Hallstrom, Jerry Greenlee, John Distler, Dan Molnar, Dan Mattingly, Jim Carter, Rich Mazzoli and Shawn Smith for hanging streamers and/or controls and vetting. Many thanks to Alison Ewart for the soup, stew and homemade bread and to Doris Herp for helping get the food to the hash house. Kudos to the Apollo and Jeffersonville bus drivers and parents for lending a hand when things were busy and personnel were sparse at the hash house. Thanks to Bruce Moore, Shawn Smith, Jim Carter and Janis Dean for help with registration and t-shirt distribution. Thanks to Louis Smith for getting the t-shirts made and delivered. Thanks to John Mann for taking pictures and publicity. Thank yous also go to John Distler for coordinating control pickup and Jim Carter and Alison Ewart for picking up controls. Also thanks to Sheltowee (John Pulsford and Greg Perry) for picking up controls Saturday night after the meet while practicing their Night-O skills. Thanks to Dan Mattingly, Dan Molnar and Shawn Smith for the loan of camp stoves and tables and chairs. Special thanks to Eric Hallstrom for the tents, the water tank, chairs and just seeming to always be there and offering to help! A door prize of a one-year subscription donated by Paula Stepp, Circulation Director for TrailRunner magazine, was awarded to SMOC (Rick Waldo and Mark Fochesato). Comments and complaints :-) may be directed to me at pkvice@bellsouth.net See you in the woods! Paul Vice Meet Director Lewis & Clark Cup Rogaine 2005