2026 Pacific Northwest Orienteering Festival
Skyline Sno-Park and White River West Results and Summary
Stage 5 - Skyline Sno-Park
6/20/2026
Stage 6 - White River West Sno-Park
6/21/2026
7 Seconds at White River West
​CLUBS REPRESENTED​
​AOC, ARCTIC, BAOC, BGR, CAOC, COC, CROC, CTOC, DVOA, EWOC, GrizO, GVOC, HVO, ICO, KOLV, MTHD, NEOC, QOC, RMOC, ROC, SAGE, SDO, TSN, UNO, VOC
COMPETITORS, STARTS
6/20/26 - Skyline Sno-Park, 127 competitors, 119 starts
6/20/26 - White River W Sno-Park, 133 competitors, 125 starts
Event Summary - Skyline NRE (PNWOF Stage 5)
The Skyline Event was the next to last competition of the 2026 PNWOF and was designed to test orienteers navigational skills in a true PNW Forest. The competition was designed around long technical courses in a mature forest with a few clearings and gullies and a fair number of downed trees. One course included a map flip.
The results showed that the courses were sized about right with the top finishers having times close to targeted finish times. The results also showed that the deep dark forest was a challenge for some orienteers.
The controls were mostly set out the day before the event, with those close to the event center placed the morning of the event by Ali Crocker.
One lesson I learned was to have a good, detailed list of who was picking up which controls at the end of the event. At 6:30 PM in the evening we were still trying to locate about 6 of the controls, finally located in a backpack that had been used to pick up the controls.
I want to thank everyone who volunteered and helped make this event a success.
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Director: Kenneth Wenzel
Course Mapper: Tony Pinkham
Course Designer and Control Setter: Ali Crocker
Course Vetter: Neal Barlow
OUSA Course Consultant: Jim Hall
Event Registration: Kathleen Kerns
Event Setup: Julie Pohl, David Rogers, Rick McBee, Ali Crocker, Tony Pinkham, Kathleen Kerns, Debby Wenzel
Check-ins: Kathleen Kerns, Julie Pohl
Starts: Julie Pohl, Ali Crocker, Tony Pinkham, Alex Myachin, Christian Whitmyre
Control Wake Up: Mark Sandifer, Sam Kolins
Medic: Nick Barrable
Finishes and Map Collection: Dale Hunt
Results: Steven Boyles, Debbie Newell
Photos: Amy and John Crowther, Danielle Boyles
Refreshment: Debby Wenzel, John Harbuck
Control Pickup: Ali Crocker, Alton Ho, Hanna Honegger, Sam Kolins, Joanne Woods, Stan Woods
US Forest Service permit administration: Cate Dillon and Kameron Sam
2026 PNWOF Organizers
Event Summary - White River West NRE (PNWOF Stage 6)
The White River West event was the final competition of the 2026 Pacific Northwest Orienteering Festival. This competition had middle-distance technical courses in an environment that combined forests with scattered trees and a barren, rocky landscape with countless gullies. Competitors had to mentally shift gears as they went from one environment to the next. The competition area was small, so the maps used 1:7500 scale and each of the advanced courses included a map flip.
The results showed that the courses were sized about right with the top finishers having times just a couple minutes over the targeted finish times. With the larger scales, the times might have been slightly faster.
The controls were mostly set two days before the event so that our limited crews could help out at the Skyline event. Unfortunately, that meant that two days of high winds were able to pull a few controls out of the ground. Fortunately, Mark Sandifer, who woke up the controls for the brown course before the event, was able to reset the blown over controls before others came by.
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We couldn't have pulled this off without every one of our volunteers. Many thanks to all of you who contributed to making this event a success. I apologize if I've left anyone out here:
Director: Kathleen Kerns.
Mapper: Tony Pinkham
Course setters: Ali Crocker and Tony Pinkham.
Course Vetters: Ali Crocker, Scott Drumm, and Kathleen Kerns.
OUSA Course Consultant: Jim Hall.
Event Registrar: Kathleen Kerns.
Event setup: Dale Hunt, Kathleen Kerns, Rick McBee, Julie Pohl, David Rogers, and Ken Wenzel.
Check-ins: Kathleen Kerns.
Control Wake up: Yves Nager and Mark Sandifer
Starts: Eunjong Choi, Susie Madden, Yves Nager, Julie Pohl, David Rogers, Tracy Vogel
Medic: Nick Barrable.
Finishes/Map Collection: Dale Hunt.
Results: Mike Holliday, Kathleen Kerns, Debbie Newell
Photos and Videos: Danielle Boyles, John Crowther, Dale Hunt, and Tony Pinkham
Refreshments: Sasha Bilenko, Taya Bilenko, Debby Wenzel, Ken Wenzel, and Anna Zastor
Control Pickup and Cleanup: Bunny Gaston (with Holly and Bryan Gaston), Dale Hunt, Nina Kolins (with Sam Kolins and Lena Kushleyeva), Rolf Kuestner, Alex Myachin, Kevin Rutherford, and Gavin Wyatt-Mair
Equipment Transportation: Dale Hunt, Ken Wenzel, and Tony Pinkham.
US Forest Service Permit Administration: Cate Dillon and Kameron Sam.
2026 PNWOF Organizers (a great team to work with): John Beck, Jennifer Conley, John Harbuck, Kathleen Kerns, Vicki Morella, Debbie Newell, Tony Pinkham, Ing Uhlin, Tracy Schoenleber and Dave Sorg