Windblown, January 17, 2004 

We were blessed with fine weather, sunny and high 20s when the morning before for control 
hanging it was -12 with a howling wind.  Thirty-nine people from four different states showed 
up plus one more who came mistakenly on Sunday yet managed the fastest time on Orange.

This year marked a few changes to this long-running event.  We shifted to Saturday to 
avoid the Sunday crowds- that worked.  We shifted to a new OCAD map- that worked.  It 
was the same as Windblown’s trail map from which it was copied but is the starting 
point for improvements.  We did learn we need to map the mystery area above the parking 
lots that many people chose for their route.  And, starting this year we set a number on 
controls on the newly mapped snowshoe trails- that worked and gave many new route choices.

This meet keeps getting bigger and bigger.  A few years ago we worried that we’d get fewer 
people than the number of controls hung and in those days no one did the Red course.  This 
year, more people did Red than any other course and overall we had more than double the 
number of competitors than controls.

  
Special congratulations to Mikkel Conradi who blew away the Red course in an astonishing 
55 minutes. 

As always, the meet wouldn’t be the same without the assistance and cooperation of Irene and 
Al Jenks, Windblown’s owners and hard-working operators.  Please, anytime you’re at 
Windblown be sure to thank them for the privilege of holding our meets there.

I also want to thank Terry Myers for helping at the start/finish, Rachel and Nicole Koehler 
for picking up over 1/3 of the controls, and Donn Springer for assistance with equipment.

Aims 

WHITE   
Kevin Wolfson Group(2)         0:15:59 
Michael Casso                  0:20:46 
Rachel&Nicole Koehler (2)      0:37:52 
        
YELLOW  
Terry Myers                    0:49:59 
Kelly Hartman                  0:54:59 
Laura Lane                     1:13:59 
Bob Garneau                    1:24:25 
Lee Garland Group(4)           1:32:59 
Alexander Izzo                 1:41:50 
        
ORANGE  
Tom Jahn (Sunday)              1:01:08 
Nancy Koehler (snowshoe)       1:20:59 
Lex Bundschuh                  1:20:59 
Sunita Halasz                  1:22:36 
Donn Springer                  1:26:12 
Pete Lane                      1:36:38 
Britt Eckstrom                 1:41:59 
J. Karpinski & K. McArdle(2)   1:55:59 
Hillary Saeger                 1:55:59 
Brian Stokes Group (3)         DNF 
        
RED     
Mikkel Conradi                 0:55:05 
Ernst Linder(classic, 2nd try) 1:04:20 
Ernst Linder(skate, 1st try)   1:06:59 
Jim Arsenault                  1:14:40 
Jim Pugh                       1:17:35 
Steve Halasz                   1:22:11 
Ken Walker Jr                  1:22:50 
Ken Walker Sr                  1:25:25 
Tony Federer                   1:31:26 
J-J Cote'                      1:32:45 
Jeff Saeger                    1:33:02 
Pete Bundschuh                 1:34:19 
Hans Bengtson                  1:48:43 
Candice Raines                 2:29:59 
Bob Lux                        DNF