OTHTC Summer 2024 Challenge Series

July 8 through August 25, 2024

by Dianne Rindt

Our intrepid group has battled the summer heat and completed another six challenging trail routes, over seven weeks. Kudos to our course developer team of Jenny McLaughlin, Tony Scanlan, Brian Hildreth, Wesley Elmore and Jessica Kormelink, who mapped out and marked our routes! Carol Wolfe organized a few evening meetups to encourage mutual support--sometimes complete with post-run food! And thanks also to Tom Rindt, for website help.

In our fifth year, thirty-seven runners and hikers signed up. The Burroughs High Cross Country Team also did some training runs on our courses! Thirty-one participants turned in results, and earned series points, for at least one of the six courses. Congratulations to this year's top points-earners! Here are the complete challenge results.

Male 19 and Under	Aaron Aberer
Female 19 and Under	Mika Hildreth
Female 20-29	Amanda Strand
Male 30-39	Trey Benke
Female 30-39	Rebekah Aftim
Male 40-49	John Baronowski
Female 40-49	Cara Lamoreux
Male 50-59	Brian Hildreth
Female 50-59	Elaine Reindeau
Male 60 and Up	Wesley Elmore
Female 60 and Up	Dianne Rindt

Here are a few of the images contributed by our challenge participants!

Photo credits: Rebekah Aftim, Trey Benke, Wesley Elmore, Julie Frisbee, Brian Hildreth, Julie Jensen, Germain Ortiz, Dawn Petrovich, Dianne Rindt, Tony Scanlan, Carol Wolfe.

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.