Orienteering race 4:25:00 [2] 27.0 km (9:49 / km)
Mal Harding Memorial Big Muddy Rogaine
Teamed up with Eric Bone and did my first actual rogaine! Such amazingly beautiful terrain, was just a joy to run around. Even the drive there through Gov't Camp, Maupin, Shaniko was just gorgeous.
Anyways, 27 controls, we planned I think a pretty good route around them, at least nothing seemed terrible when we were out there. Interesting to have to think on a bigger scale. And amazing to have it be just so open. At times (#70!) the footing was rough because of deep cow tracks. And then towards the end was definitely feeling ready to be done heading up to the final control which was really only there for those who were silly enough to want to clear the course. Appreciated the rock arch, stonehenge, the antelope skull on a tree controls...
Thanks much to all who made it happen, and to Mal for being the impetus behind this for so long.