cmorse's comments - by leg
| 1. | Time Lost: 00:15 | across marsh, up narrow reentrant, straight to upper boulder - no sign of rentrant, wander N, then back and look down slope - flag below boulder but not in a reentrant |
| 2. | Time Lost: 00:20 | to clearing, then trail and R to saddle - confused as I'm still on a major trail, slow up to confirm this is not on map and I'm still good - proceed straight to control at hesitant pace |
| 3. | go NW to cross stony ground at narrowest point - i hate stony ground. follow stream to manmade object, then straight | |
| 4. | Time Lost: 03:00 | across to trail, follow trail for a bit then proceed to spike #5. Start to leave and realize I 'eddied' #4. Back to #4, getting into marsh - ugh - then up |
| 5. | nice white woods leaving, stop by & touch flag at 5, | |
| 6. | down to trail/rocky ground junction, then trail to T. Easy downhill attack | |
| 7. | reverse direction back to trail, then pretty much straight | |
| 8. | Time Lost: 06:30 | straight - past rockpiles, passing E of rocky ground, across rocky reentrant past boulder on spur, stay just above rocks to upper large boulder and down. No flag. Slowly continue beyond to sharp trail bend - reattack on careful bearing - same place, no flag. Try downhill, past lower boulder to distinct boulder/knoll - back up to same spot. Careful scan of woods in all directions - no flag, assume I miscopied control and move on. Later reports indicate flag hung 'way high' |
| 9. | very cautious = slow, spike | |
| 10. | Time Lost: 01:20 | along terrace, seemed too close to pond, backtracked, tried again along to of ridge, map seemed sketchy in here, or perhaps I was just not concentrating after missing 8 |
| 11. | Time Lost: 00:30 | carefully up past large boulders, then up reentrant, find the three rocks, no flag. climbed a bit higher and spied flag low to ground behind small unmapped rock |
| 12. | Time Lost: 06:00 | R of hill, couldn't find trails, continue S keeping higher ground on left - very tenuous map contact in here, slow, bummed... finally find a trail about 150m ne of #7, hope its the one I think it is, proceed uphill, confirming location at 2 boulder trail junction. Continue on trails though trail hard to follow in places, leave trail 200m nw of control and clean the rest of the way |
| 13. | Time Lost: 00:30 | slow, almost a walk trying to check features carefully, just a bit to ne |
| 14. | Time Lost: 00:30 | down, cross stream, L of marsh, down reentrant and up slope - vague hilltop, wind up on rocky spur with wrong flag - back up to find flag buried in blueberry - arghhhh. |
| 15. | out to trail, glad this ones over | |
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Total Time Lost - 00:18:55
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