Charlie's comments - by leg
| 1. | Up trail to stone wall fragment, then across spur between bare rock areas and across second spur and in. | |
| 2. | Had a tough time descending, then ok across spur and reentrant, ending up a bit low. | |
| 3. | Time Lost: 06:00 | Lots of route possibilities, and picked the worst! Planned W thourhg saddle and down to marsh, along trail through semi-open, but ended up drifting NW around northern hilltop and down to the marsh, then climbing quite a bit on the faint trail . Then I missed the control. Looked at the right cliff, but it seemed too high and too far away from the marsh, and the flag was tucked way in, so I went and hung around the cliffs nearer the marsh for a while. |
| 4. | Time Lost: 03:00 | Kept getting confused and heading for 6, then correcting and then doing it again! Instead of trail around to the left (sweet!), Thrashed in a zigzag route through woods. Ken Walker (and others) were there ahead of me.) |
| 5. | Straight | |
| 6. | Straight | |
| 7. | Time Lost: 04:00 | Behind Ken (and others) up reentrant along line, but drifted left (when I thought, incorrectly, that they were drifting right). I was way short of trail and somehow had convinced myself I had already passed it. After some searching, found myself on trail and corrected. |
| 8. | Time Lost: 00:45 | NW to trail bend, to trail then left to junction, then NW on trail to bend and roughly on compass, but got distracted by flag on earlier stone wall. |
| 9. | Time Lost: 00:30 | Straight. Thought I was looking for shallow reentrant, also in circle, but then looked left and saw flag on cliff. |
| 10. | Ken W was heading downhill from 9 as I approached it and I followed him down before looking at the map. Particularly frustrating, because I had already looked at this leg earlier and planned to go around to the left (much easier). Down nasty streambed to trail and around to steep climb at end. | |
| 11. | Skirting barberry to the left. Once across the trail, checking off stone wall fragments, and on pace count | |
| 12. | Time Lost: 02:15 | More frustration. Ran to the big loader in the parking lot and couldn't figure it out from there. After a bit, Ken showed up. How did he get behind me? |
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Total Time Lost - 00:16:30
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