Discussion: Hudson Highlander XI: Roll up the hill

The race is shaping up. My ultra white spy weasels tell me that control locations have been streamered over the weekend. So if you go out and find them, you can practice the whole course.

The control descriptions just popped up on my screen, don't know from where. It appears that partial e-punching is used, when I read the clues correctly, for each map plus the K&Q of the Mountain and the trail run. The details are worked out by a team of electrons.

Control locations include mining areas (no, not down in the water pit, but maybe some weird magnetism), a beautiful rocky knoll to climb up and an area with five controls where one has to read the map precisely. Does that mean a highly intricate area? Some advantage to use map reading skills?

Forking might be used in the King and Queen of the Mountain section, with the choice of 75 mountain tops, each with a potential crown. No, better not, says the boss, who is looking over my shoulder. Monarchy is not fun, if everyone is king or queen. Not?

Anyway, enough of this Hudson Valley poetry slam. Go to the Highlander web site and figure out the rest. Registration deadline is Friday, October 6.

There are several mines in the area that can be entered and go in as much as couple of hundred feet. I hope that the course setter has not let his dark side ( Adventure Race course setting ) influence him into putting the control deep in one of them.

Could you please send me an e-mail with the exact location of the deepest mine shafts? This beats culvert crawling. I might have to use a two layered map, one with the surface of the woods and one inside the mineshaft. No effort is too big to give you a dry orienteering experience, encounter with prehistoric bears and absolutely no blueberries inside the mines.