Race Evaluation
WCOC Osbornedale State Park: Red
walk
| 1. | Across pkg lot, around green blob, thru wall, by end of pkg towards wall. Bit shaky getting going and things didn't look right. Crossed wall and dodged briars under tree trying to see veg bndy. Ran around big tree and saw bag. | ||||||
| 2. | +01:00 | W along side of hill across pkg, across road to open field - hmm looks good. There must be a way thru that stuff at the S end - NOT! Tried once into mass of barberry and briars. Backed out and tried more W. Barberry going W! Finally force way thru to open hill!!!! UGH Across marsh to trail, start climbing as it opens to R, going diagonally up. Cross wall to trail, along to reentrant. Down bearing around cliffs, over spur and in. | |||||
| 3. | Down to trail, trails across field to road, across pkg to unmapped trail (it shows on my OCAD version, don't know where this map came from) to almost W corner as looked thick at end. Cut thru woods to top of cliffs trying to line up with flat of spur. Figured bag on upper cliff so resisted urge to drop. Went a bit further and saw it. | ||||||
| 4. | Along spur past rock and down thru grown out green (important to note that veg seems to have grown out where its had a chance. It's now off future editions of map except I have about 200 old copies.), across reentrant and along hitting reentrant slightly high. When we picked up this bag, it seemed slightly lower than circled by taking bearings off big rock by road and big cliff NE. | ||||||
| 5. | E to road to junc. Field looked ok so picked way across to open woods, along wall to wall, picked way to trail. Down to trail in field. NE on trail and oops! a new trail straight thru green, Weee! Across bridge and head up to circle. Finally realize I had been heading towards 9, oops. Ok 5 just beyond; no harm done. Go past 9 on side of hill. Wonder what the feature is supposed to be. Across trail, up reentrant and around boulders to bag. | ||||||
| 6. | +04:00 | Bearing, head straight to it. See Petr Polivka (heading to 11?) go below and get sucked L. Stop on big spur on top of cliffs looking down into a reentrant but see no bag (probably hidden by veg). Head further E over spur down into barberry! more UGH! Wander a bit then head bit further down and back W over a spur. Just as a fukowy moment was attacking, looked up reentrant and saw bag. | |||||
| 7. | Up, across trail, cross wall and trail. See wall pointing NE. Thinking its the lower wall, run along to end and start picking way thru veg. Keep going down long way and doesn't look right. Check map and see upper wall and realize what happened. Veg erratic but passable and pop out at N end of pair of hills by reentrant. Can't see bag for all the barberry! Then see it bit higher than expected and pick way thru b'by. | ||||||
| 8. | +00:30 | W down hillside, across stream, cross trail to run along top of hill to W of trail thinking it looked nice and open. Crossed a big reentrant and hit cliffs but no bag. Checked map to see was NW of bag. Headed along hillside thru cliffs and dropped down to bag. | |||||
| 9. | S to trail, along across stream past rocky area and up along it and over to a small hole in the ground - Oh. | ||||||
| 10. | Up, heading to saddle around nose of hill, across stony ground not seeing bag until got to E side (as clue said). | ||||||
| 11. | Straight down to trail, to pkg lot, down along E pkg lot and could see bag across wall. | ||||||
| 12. | R of pavillion to trail going R up from field. Around cliff, up over spur to bag. | ||||||
| 13. | Down below wall, over spur, look for bag. | ||||||
| F. | Straight down thru herd path to field. Straight E across field to corner, thru woods and in. |
Total Time Lost - 00:05:30