1. | Started out just fine... | ||||||
2. | ... but that didn't last. This was embarrassingly preposterous. Recognized this as a tricky leg, and noted the contour features that I'd have to keep an eye out for. Proceeded to mistake various things for other things, but I picked up a very distinct full-open clearing on the bench below the control -- I thought. Navigated from there, but didn't find the anticipated features. Realized where I actually was (I thought), and continued up to where the control supposedly was. Just beyond where I expected it, there appeared to be a clearing, which I investigated... uh oh. I couldn't possibly be there, could I? Yes, the clearing was very distinctive: I was 600 meters NE of the control, 15 lines too high. Ack! How did I possibly climb that much? Made pretty good time going back down the hill, and navigated beautifully, for what that's worth, | ||||||
3. | Came in a smidge low, but I knew it, and climbed over a bunch of deadfall to get to the rocks. | ||||||
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5. | Again, a smidge low, so I had to turn right when I got to the reentrant. | ||||||
6. | Meadow running to the right. Straight north to start out, then easy navigation. Hesitated at the very end, since it wasn't clear to me at all what constituted a clearing up there, and the contours were a little hard to read through the purple. | ||||||
7. | Pretty soft ground. Popped into the clearing too high, and had to run down to the boulder. | ||||||
8. | My favorite leg of the whole week. Not particularly technical or anything, but I just though this first introduction to this special part of the terrain was particularly scenic and beautiful. (Ran very close to here the following day, in the other direction, without realizing it.) | ||||||
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11. | Got to the reentrant just fine, but I was a couple of steps low, in the young pines, and couldn't see the flag until I pushed through them and looked back over my shoulder. | ||||||
12. | Down the spur, but then took the road for a bit instead of going on the steeps under the cliff (should have just gone to the road in the first place). The control was easier than it looked at first glance. | ||||||
13. | Slightly W of S, and hit the road juat about at the bend. Diagonally uphill to the E until I got over the ridge, then read my way in the rest of the way. | ||||||
14. | Not good. After getting past the top of the boulder field, I lost contact in the vague patchy green stuff. Stopped at about the right distance, and spotted a control, but I was ~200m SW of mine, in a reentrant. Had to stop and think carefully, but correctly guessed where I was, and followed the knolls and spurs uphill to the control. | ||||||
15. | Also not good. Not reading the map well, and got too far to the right. Things (contours and yellow) didn't look right, and I knew I was doing something wrong. Actually went right past #16 about the time I figured it out, so I at least knew exactly where I was, but I fishhooked into the control anyway. | ||||||
16. | Having been here already, this wasn't too tough. | ||||||
17. | This all looked very vague and hard to read, but i just headed blindly into it anyway. Ran by a White control, then shortly cam to the top of a steep slope, that I wisely didn't descend. Wasn't quite sure where I was, but I made my way along the edge of the flattish area until I recognized things, and found the boulder no problem. | ||||||
18. | Switched to the 1:7500 map. | ||||||
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20. | Started out on the faint trail, but it quickly evaporated. Read my way in on contours, going by a control on a dot knoll just N of the line. Should have spiked the control from there, but when I got to what I thought was the reentrant, I found nothing. Circled around, doublechecked things, and came to what sure seemed like the same spot, from a slightly different angle, and found the flag. | ||||||
21. | Slightly right of the line, reading contour features, and spiked it. | ||||||
22. | Steve Gregg (on Red) was alongside, and I moved maybe a bit faster that I should have at teh beginning of the leg. Swung right, recognized a distinctive hill, went up into a reentrant, and poppoed over into the one just to the left of it to find the control. Not too impressed with the use of a shrunken brown U on the map, and even less impressed that there was a control on it. | ||||||
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