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2. | Even with a bearing, I ended up playing at dummy controls. | ||||||
3. | Too many contours and too many dummy controls, I stopped short of my own control. Relocating off the road below didn't help. | ||||||
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6. | NE on unmapped logging road to trail system. | ||||||
7. | Going NE I got to trail as it entered open land, then trail run but went off trail a bit early in green, of course. | ||||||
8. | Straight bearing run that I messed up by going to dummy control in white which was above my control in green. | ||||||
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10. | This was a nice long bearing run with water features (including well pump) and crosstrail instead of just contours contours contours. My placing tanked after this leg. | ||||||
11. | On the map this looked so simple, run to the top of the steep ridge. I must have drifted right and it took ages to find the N/S side of the ridge and then had to explore back each of the reentrants, finding a dummy control in one reentrant along the way. | ||||||
12. | And then the race really blew up. Eventually, I realised I'd over run control target after many relocations off river and parallel trail. Contours were just too busy for my skill level. Examining the map days later, I now see the park boundary line which I hadn't seen on map. Running into a posted sign might have saved this leg for me. | ||||||
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15. | Even closing out the race, I sprinted out to a dummy control in the middle of the marsh on the way to my control on far edge of swamp. | ||||||
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