My first thought was the east trail route, essentially the light blue track by Mate Karenyi in
this image.
Upon closer inspection, I prefer Peley's dark green track. Was the route you were describing the pink track by Zsebehazy? I guess we should probably draw our routes for future days, as the writing is imprecise.
The climb up to the col looks awful, but the light blue track climbs 100m from the field to the control and adds a ton of distance. It's all on trails, which is nice, but I personally do comparatively better through crap and comparatively worse on trails relative to the field.