Quincy 2 days have finished!

Excellent racers, excellent volunteers, excellent weather!

Quincy West:

Fast courses with shorter legs.
Some confusion was caused by Finish on first day - "Navigate to finish" says the description sheet.
https://www.5z.com/urban/gadget/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=130&kieli=
http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/default.asp?page=classes&databaseId=24649

Quincy South:

Some longer route choices with a mix of shorter legs.
https://www.5z.com/urban/gadget/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=131&kieli=
http://www.obasen.nu/winsplits/online/en/default.asp?page=classes&databaseId=24650
* Hannah's results are not recorded.

Special thanks to volunteers:
Help with children - Gunta & everybody else.
Control pickup - Nikolay, Dushka, Peteris, Richard, Andrew, Will, Susan, Barry.
Help with electronic equipment - Debbie, Ing, Don, Jan.
Routegadget - Jan
Cascade OC for renting me their SI stuffs.
Afterrace food - Marianne and Dobby.
(I am missing someone here, sorry about that).

Electronic maps of the race will be shared upon request.

2.5 or 5 meters?

2.5 or 5 meter contour lines, that is the question.

Thoughts?
I think I will go with 2.5 meter ones.

Homebrew OC Winter 2012 1 results, Mt Tiger

These are approximate results, they will be corrected.

Place	Orcs	Race Time	Start time	Notes
1	Nikolay	1:07:59	12:20
2	Will	1:24:00	12:17
3	Kean/Rick	1:48:00	12:15
4	Miles	1:57:00	12:07
5	Aaron/Brice	2:07:00	12:09
6	Murray/Christi	2:20:00	12:05
7	Debbie/Ing	2:28:00	12:01
	Hobbits	Time
1	Jan	1:08:32	12:03
2	Ina	1:23	:00?	Course backwards
3	Eileen	2:00:18	12:11
4	Don	1:30:00	12:22	Skipped 1&2
5	Doug/Alan	DNF	12:13	skipped a bunch
6	Sergiy, Valery and Max

Course Setter: Peteris
Start&Finish: Gunta&Emily
Refreshments: Rick&Eileen
Course pickup: Eric Bone
Route gadget: Jan Urban

More information will be provided as it becomes available. 

Rules of home-brewing

When doing homebrew orienteering race there is only one rule:
The map is new or it is updated from the previous bad state to a not-so-bad state (but most likely still pretty bad state). That means that the map will most likely be very far from a good quality map, but we must try hard to make it enjoyable.

Homebrew is looking for...

We are looking for mapmakers, course setters, controls pickers, anything goes.
The new season is looking exciting...

We are planning on the following events (not all will happen):

Quincy lakes: Quincy south (old map, to be updated), Quincy North, which consists of Quincy middle and Quincy North (two new maps, work under-way, we need to to field work there). The plan would be to have 3 races in a weekend.
Tiger North (new map, first scouting done there - looking for help with map).
Willows fjords (old map, to be updated)
Crestwoods park (old map, to be updated)
Drunken Charlie (old map, to be updated)

Then there is a sprint map of Redmond Triangle in works (also known as our current apartment complex, but   very questionable if anything can happen there).

Largest homebrew event ever

In honor of our daughter Emily, we held an event on our neighborhood map.
32 participants for the run with 17 timed starts!!!

1k course
	Atis & Graham	0:48:00
	Ruta, Vytas ir Vytas	0:57:00
	Viswanathan family	0:58:00
3k course
	Margaret, Jen & Rick	1:01:00
	Zachary, Kathy and Miles	1:10:42
	Sawyer & James	1:17:00
	Christi & Scot & Lucky	1:22:00
5k course
	Will	0:51:00
	Rick	0:56:05
	Dave	0:56:42
	Jan	1:01:20
	Connie & Colin	1:01:55
	Debbie	1:23:00
	Lisa & Murray	1:34:00
	Stella	1:39:00
	Mike	2:17:00
Modified 1k course
	Alyona, Dmitry, Dmitry	0:48:00

Thanks to everyone who participated.
Route gadget is here. Please enter your routes.

From Jan: "Remind people, that they can enter either the gps route, or they can enter their route manually, but in that case they have to enter their splits (not mandatory) or at least their total time in format mmmss, thus for somebody entering 1 hour, 1 minute and 20 seconds, it will be "6120". They will also have to enter their name."

The map - contours from PSLC website, street data and building footprints from Kirkland GIS.
Aerial photos from different sources.

Quincy lakes South

This is the first map of Quincy lakes - it's South part. There is a virtual O' course set there. If anyone wants to try it out, let me know. The scale of the map as drawn is 1:10000, but for printing out, 1:15000 currently is used to... SUPPORT MY HOME PRINTER...The course is set to be 8.1 km long, but can easily be shortened.

What is the quality of the map currently? 

Trails are drawn from pictures and some 2 year old GPS traces. We were very active in this place 2 years ago when a small training adventure race was put on. 

Contours are from USA 10 meter grid DEM. That means that the smaller re-entrants are clearly missing. 

Vegetation is as it is seen from pictures and not 100% correct thus. I believe the map is usable for training purposes. White vegetation is rough open land. 

Rocks are guesses from the satellite pictures again. 

This is how to get to the start area from Seattle.

The area is quite rattlesnake infested, but I expect that they are still quite passive at this time of year.