OTHTC Summer 2023 Challenge Series

July 10 through August 27, 2023

by Dianne Rindt

Our fourth year is finished already! Thank you to our course developer team--Brian Hildreth, Jenny McLaughlin, Andrew Smosna, Jessica Kormelink, Wesley Elmore, and Connie Scanlan--who came up with six more routes to run and hike to keep us motivated during the summer! And kudos to Connie for picking up the course marking flags, to Tom Rindt, for website work, and Carol Wolfe, for organizing meetups.

Thirty-six runners and hikers signed up to take part. Thirty of those turned in results from at least one of the six courses. Congratulations to this year's top points-earners! Pictured below (left to right): Austin Decker, 20-29M; Connie Scanlan, 50-59F; Brad Kasberg, 30-39M; Aaron Aberer, 19 & underM; Daniel Griffith, 40-49M; Mika Hildreth, 19 & underF; Brian Hildreth, 50-59M; Wesley Elmore, 60+M, and Carol Wolfe, 60+F. Not able to be present was Julie Jensen, 40-49F. The complete challenge results are here.

If there was a theme to the summer's activities, it may have been SNAKES, or maybe RAIN. Here are some of the images contributed by our challenge participants.

Photo credits: Austin Decker, Julie Frisbee, Julie Jensen, Jessica Kormelink, Elaine Riendeau, Tony Scanlan

For everyone who did not join us, but may still want to run or hike the routes that we ran and experiment with route navigation, here is the course information.