Orienteering race 1:39:44 [3] 5.2 km (19:11 / km) +195m 16:09 / km
Long course at West Point, Green Y
Another pretty bad run. Didn't see the closed gate symbol along the road going to 2 so came out of the woods to go that way only to find the gate closed. Went down the trail to the ride hoping to get through the swamp but it was impassable. As I came back up to pursue the only route choice left that I could see, side hilling it along the rocks, I met many other people trying to do the same thing I did. I don't think the closed gate overlay symbol is nearly big enough. Even now just sitting here looking at it, I can barely see it. Once I got up to 2, wandered around for a bit trying to relocate among the cliffs. Lost time at 3 as well. I couldn't see a reentrant in the circle and my understanding of a reentrant is that it's a countour feature not a rock feature. Anyway, figured the reentrant must be in the contour that's not completely visible on the map, beyond the rock feature, so went past the rock features in the circle. Started to go back to 2 to relocate and saw some people coming from the cliff. Lost a bit of time at 11, going to far down the hill.