Orienteering 58:21 [3] **** 3.2 km (18:14 / km) +125m 15:15 / km
shoes: Pytho Ice Bug
Since we drove 14 hrs to Fundy National Park, I decided to fully enjoy my Oing experience and walk around the middle course for about an hour. Joking aside, there was practically no enjoyment for me on this map and in these very dense woods with rocky ground. Very low visibility could have been tolerable only if the map was good enough to discern all the patches of green in btwn white woods (that way it would have been a decent training for me). Starting from the first control, I couldn't get my head into it but did my best to try to "trust" the map as much as I could and just go from one control to the next, very very slowly. Screwed up #2, hesitating on my location and moving a bit right and further than I had to go. 3 and 4 were Ok, 5 was decent towards the end of the leg but very slow and hesitant in the middle as I was going on the side of a steep reentrant being scared b/c of bear marks going the same way as I was .. Got my way around the rest of the course w/o major problems but very slow. Going to 10, an unmapped green patch across the stream caused me to go up instead of just going on my bearing straight ahead..
Longest write-up to date, lots of complaing but it did make me tougher :)