Discussion: Location of 10

You probably should have been more than 2 minutes in front of me as well.
I down loaded the garmin track and it gave the location of 10 as being on the southern edge of the circle. Rest of the track lined-up almost exactly, no more than a mm or so variation, so it was probably 50m or so too far down the spur.. Also you may have noted that the start/finish was on the wrong side of the dam wall.

That makes sense - I was using the steepening of the gully to the left as my distance cue (and was also somewhat distracted because Tina Smith was in the spot where I was expecting the control to be, and looked like she'd just punched it but hadn't).

Did you think 5 was in the wrong spot, and if so, by how much? Something was definitely wrong there but I think it was as much the map as the control placement - there was an extra track and the eucalypt boundary didn't fit with the main track either.

I think 5 was on the track bend where it was shown, but the rest of the map was iffy. There was an extra track just past the control on the way to 6, which came in on the rigt ahnd side (NWish) and the boundary between the pine (marked as yellow) and the eucalypt was also suspect. I approached 5 from along the road. Original idea was to cut accross the yellow, but when I found it was really low pines and should have been mapped light green, I came off the track to the north at the saddle and ran almost due south along the plantation rows, which proved to be reasonably quick until I hit the track and then turned right. Ted went along the north track further to immediately south of the knoll and then went almost due south to the control. He commented that it was slow and careful. In retrespect with the pines the quickest was would have been ound hte tracks including the eastern one of the pair going south to avoid the climb.

I would have gone around the tracks in a serious race, but chose to go through the pines because one of the National League events in Canberra will have quite a bit of low-visibility pine and I wanted to get a feel for that type of terrain.

Why is this a season opener? Is this the "close to Melbourne" season?

If it's good enough to attend the opening ceremony of one's only World Championships after one has already been eliminated from said championships, then it's good enough to have a "season-opener" after several other events have already taken place.

Perhaps, as was explained by Rune once, that the season really starts on March 1, so that events in February are really season ending events for the previous season.

So why do we hold our season end party in November? Seems quite a bit early to me. Really, the Mt Beckworth event should be the season opener, and the Fryerstown relay the season end. So Saturday night is our break up party. Thats why we can't have the Bush committee that night.

If the relays mark the season end and the first SL event is the "real" opening of the season, then this year it will end before it starts!

No, no no. The relay event this weekend is the end of last season. Get with it!