| Little Rock City Mini-Rogaine. Went with my wife, Theresa, who is not an orienteer. We hiked it (with poles) in prep for this summer's AT hike (Grafton Notch, ME to Crawford Notch, NH).
A3, A9, 43, 54, 80 all fine.
Hit road right by B2, but didn't start looking for it right away and had to double back to get it.
Water, 53, B4, 45, 46 all fine.
Got screwed up going to 70 when we got caught on a new, unmapped bike trail that was (more or less) parallel to the small trail we wanted, but too high on the hill side. Recovered of NE bound small trail to SE of control.
71, 64, 41 all fine.
Went up hill towards 68, but had to bag it part way due to time. This resulted in an all-trails, but very long route to 40.
Water, A6, A1, A2 and finish all fine.
Decent job. Theresa had real troubles off-trail and it was HOT, but otherwise we did okay. 6th out of 14. If the late penalties weren't so minimal, we'd have been 4th (but then of course some folks might not have been late).
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