Race Evaluation
BAOC NOD, Joaquin Miller: Orange
Tundra/Desert
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Read map too late +00:10 | Missed low after crossing below the waterfall. | |||||
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Bad route choice Hesitated +00:25 | Started out on a straight line towards #4 (which is where the prevailing elephant track led), then noticed the 55-m (crossable) earth bank ahead and the trail route around it. Switched to the trail route. Was very hesitant on approach from below in the canyon; did not see the first bridge across, or the fact that the trail that led to the control also connected to the S side of the canyon. I though they wanted the two banks of the canyon separate, so that bikers wouldn't ruin something. I crossed the canyon off-trail shortly after the first (was it there?) bridge. Then stopped, read the map, went on. The hesitation was maybe 10 seconds. | |||||
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Ran too fast Did not like map +04:00 | 201 M CLIMB along Wyatt's (winning and convincingly optimal) route (going through #8). Chose the low route; was going to climb early, between the first and the second seas of dark green, but the hillside looked quite scary there from the trail. Continued on to the white spur between the second and third seas of dark green and climbed up it. It was good going but stEEEEp. Crossed to the next spur too early, through the dark green (oxygen debt?) - an about 30 second error. As I climbed to the trail below the control, I could see a rock feature (there only was one mapped!), and Johanna Merriss going away from it. As I got up to the feature (a group of boulders - perfectly fitting the mapped single black boulder field triangle), Johanna turned around and came to the feature as well - had she been there already? There was no bag. I thought about just going on but decided to look around more, knowing the event and the map weren't really supposed to be that serious. I got all the way up to the short trail above the control - it looked as mapped. Looked back down into the control's reentrant - nothing there (as I was told, the bag was behind a redwood rootstock from that direction). I looked for rock features and only saw the group I had been at already. I went to it anyway, again. The bag had not suddenly synthesized from thin air and redwood sap - where are those nanorobots when we need them? I went back up to the short trail to look at the site where the control was supposed to be before they changed the course and re-marked the maps. Not there, either. I punched the watch at some point before this final climb to the indistinct trail. I was at the rock feature first at 11:low into the leg, so I figure the loop was an about 3:30 tour. | |||||
| 6. | Was double-checking that things made sense on the way: slow. | ||||||
| 7. | Trail NE to the solid black line trail. Left it just past the R-shaped parking area. Through the "illegal trails" in the redwood grove (some mattresses there), down the white spur - there was an unmapped (illegal?) trail down it. | ||||||
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Bad map reading +00:10 | Z around on the meandering trail. Had to get down to the next trail down and took a good chunk of the slope with me. As I got down, I first went in the wrong direction on the trail. | |||||
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Did not like map Hesitated +01:25 | The mapped trail down to the finish area was not there - ??, so I went down the E-W trail and tried to get down a clearing. It was slow, I got stuck in some fir sticks. Should have just gone down where the mapped trail used to be. | |||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:06:10