Charlie's comments - by leg
| 1. | Time Lost: 01:30 | Stopped short and hunted a bit, but realized I was in big rocks so pressed on. Further down in the pine thickets than I expected from the map |
| 2. | Time Lost: 06:00 | Major error. Through green to road and by fenced in yellow area on compass, but got sucked off onto long knoll N of control and couldn't figure it out. Eventually bailed to the road and back in. |
| 3. | On compass, heading up the reentrant just W of line. | |
| 4. | S to road and around to the south to take the road W past top of hill, then donw to waterfall and across, in on compass. | |
| 5. | SSW to trail. Footing poor on trail - taking it easy on slippery rocks to avoid crashing. In from trail bend and easy. | |
| 6. | Time Lost: 04:00 | I know this area is difficult, so walked carefully on pace and compass and ended up in no man's land, somewhere W of control. Went back and forth several times before striking out for the E and finding it. |
| 7. | Time Lost: 10:00 | Fought my way back to the trail, and ended up 50 m east of where I was aiming. Hmm. Anyway, followed trail under big cliffs and to trail bend WSW of control. In on pace, compass and reading the slope to hit a cliff but no bag!! Fussed around for a bit, then up to distinct trail bend S of control and back down, checking all the rock features, but no luck. Try again - back to trail, check both ways to make sure I'm really at the trail bend, and down again. Then explored to the E a bit, and back to trail for third time through. Finally gave up and headed N toward # 8 and found it about 30 m further down the slope. #@!%*& |
| 8. | NE to marshy area and attempt to follow stream out to road. Got stuck a bit in the laurel, but eventually got to stream and ok from there. Then up trail to the N along the stream, going straight from the last bend before the road. | |
| 9. | Time Lost: 01:00 | Drifted R when I saw what looked like cliffs, and realized a bit too late I needed to look for cliffs higher up, so ran a bit of extra distance. |
| 10. | Time Lost: 00:15 | Angled to trail, then past W end of stone wall and up through saddle, past thickets, veg boundary, lone tree, and somehow ended up 30m to the left, but saw the flag |
| 11. | Mostly straight, drifting a little S and crossing just N of cliff on big knoll before picking up trail for a bit, running to after second knoll on left, then on compass, and on and on and on before crossing intermittent stone wall and realizing I had to go left. Why did this take so long?? | |
| 12. | Time Lost: 01:00 | Straight to clearing with giant oak, then drifted a bit east and had to recover when I saw the stonewall ahead. |
| 13. | I think this is the time. I had some extra punches in here. Pretty good route. A little R of line past trail, then up spur and drifting just left of line, crossing through green patch and stonewall before going over hill and drifting around to the R again under steeper face of hill. Hit trail, saw lone pine on trail ahead and cut the corner down to the control. Good leg. | |
| 14. | S, picking up trail just before jct and going left a bit then cutting corner to intermittent trail, drifting down toward the stream below the stone wall and seeing the spur coming up ahead. Spike. | |
| 15. | A little gingerly crossing the stream on slippery rocks, but then pretty straight, checking off stone walls en route. | |
| 16. | Tried to go S to road, but ended up going more E to trail, following trail all the way. | |
| 17. | Straight. |
Total Time Lost - 00:23:45
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