Race Evaluation
WCOC Macedonia: Red
GlenT
| 1. | Road. Kept one foot mostly dry when crossing the stream | ||||||
| 2. | Sidehill, trail, off the bend. | ||||||
| 3. | Compass to boulder cluster. | ||||||
| 4. | Over spur, along stream to bag. | ||||||
| 5. | Angle and climb to the N-S wall. | ||||||
| 6. | Nice trail cut through the barberry by Peter and Susan (Thanks!) Surprised by the barb wire fences - around one, through the other unscathed. Picked up the ride beyond the clearing and followed the stream in. | ||||||
| 7. | +05:00 | Stayed on the NW side of the big stream, following it to the smaller stream. Ground got marshy as I followed the smaller stream so I thought I had gone as far as the mapped marsh. Cut over and started searching one wall short of where I should've been. Bailed to the road after a bit and convinced myself I was in the right place so searched a bit more. Finally headed over the wall and further uphill where I saw the bag. Woods were quite fast, so I think this route was faster than taking the road if executed well. | |||||
| 8. | +00:15 | Road. What ruin? Spent 15 seconds finding the bag once I got in the circle. | |||||
| 9. | +01:00 | Got to the circled cairn in about 2:20. Checked the nearby boulder and then decided there might be a parallel error and went up to the cairn near a wall with a bag hanging on it. | |||||
| 10. | +01:30 | Got into the barberry with some unmapped boulders and streams and got a bit confused. Relocated on the little wall pieces NW of the control. Had to remind myself at this point that the map was 1:15000 and that's why things were taking longer to appear. | |||||
| 11. | Low to avoid green and then spotted the bag from quite a distance. | ||||||
| 12. | Straight up. | ||||||
| 13. | Parallel to trail, hitting it a bit before the junction. Along the marsh, up and in from the tiny piece of wall by the narrow marsh. Wrong code, but close enough. | ||||||
| 14. | Compass. | ||||||
| 15. | Compass uphill. | ||||||
| 16. | +01:00 | Around the hill, read the spur and saw the pond, but then chased a bag down near the trail junction. In from there. | |||||
| 17. | Trail - Wheeee!! | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:08:45