Back country skiing 2:49:00 [3] 9.2 mi (18:22 / mi) +6162ft 11:14 / mi
ahr:137 max:171 slept:5.0
The Frigid Infliction with DML and Jenny Johnson in a ton of fresh snow.
A new twist, no maps before the start. We started on the Nordic trails and followed glow sticks to where the map handout would be. We did have the BV trail map ahead of time but with the on-race-time map handout we did not take the time to transpose the CPs once we had the topo map with the control locations on it.
The controls on this first leg were dogbone controls meaning you had to get each paired control set before you could continue on to the next set. Teams would only need to collect 3 of the sets to move onto the next leg with the option of picking up the remaining sets on the second ski leg if they wanted.
All of these controls were on trails so the only trick was to pick the most efficient route. We put together a solid route and made it into the TA as the first team to have collected all of them.