I have made the exact same mess of #3 - misread the contour line to be a path and tried to find it to get to the track. The vegetation pushed me out W and ended up on the N-S track instead of the E-W track, it was OK from there but I could have gotten to the same point coming out N from the control and running on that path about 3 min faster.
Sorry for your lights, when I saw your splits I thought something happened towards the end.
We weren’t the only 2 to make a pigs ear of that control and certainly not the worst.