Race Evaluation
2007 Western States Orienteering Championships: Green Day 2
Charlie
| 1. | Trail to bend to trail near green past green and first dot knoll. | ||||||
| 2. |
Bad compass work +01:00 | On compass and picking up trail segments, but drifted left somehow and missed it. Got close to road and then turned right for 30 m and down a line through the little thicket. | |||||
| 3. | Climb past big trail to little trail, a little left of line to get to trail quickly, then trail to trail jct and clearing and up along the green. This was my only leg with the fastest split. | ||||||
| 4. |
Bad map reading Bad compass work Lacked concentration +02:00 | Left of green until I fought through and then along the bottom of green patches until end of last one. Then lost concentration and didn't check compass or realize I needed to climb a line. Got too low and saw what was probably a white control, and then got flummoxed about where I w as, so back up to last green patch and then did better. About 4 different errors to lose a total of 2 minutes here. Lucky it wasnt worse. | |||||
| 5. | Left of line to pick up narrow trail around big reentrant, then past trail jct for about 50 m and in on compass. No problem. | ||||||
| 6. | Up the spur to upper trail, then past jct and past green near trail and straight in. Could see it from a distance. | ||||||
| 7. | Up spur to upper trail and along trail past reentrant on right and in. Saw Eric Bone here for the third time. Also saw him in the vicinity of #4 and at #5. Glad I didn't have to go all the places he went. | ||||||
| 8. | Up reentrant left of big hill to trail and beyond to nest trail for a few steps, then on compass to knoll. Could see knoll from a ways off. | ||||||
| 9. | Back to trail and along to trail bend, pace counting and checking off green. On compass, saw green vertical stripes area first and then dark green from a distance. | ||||||
| 10. | Straight, keeping green on my left. Could see flag through thin green patch. | ||||||
| 11. |
Bad map reading Confused parallel features +01:00 | NW to trail, then W to trail jct, N and W again on trails, then cut diagonally down hill t hrough white and light green stuff that was really slow and thick, W on trail for a bit then d own spur. Got fooled by trail segment on spur and thought I was further west, so pushed through the green and got to t he boulder cluster E of the control. Stopped to figure it out for a while and then ok. | |||||
| 12. | Across reentrant on compass, picking up small trail and using it for an attackpoint. On compass in. Thick there. 2m boulder should have been the size of a refrigerator, but more the size of an automatic dishwasher. | ||||||
| 13. | Behind Claire Durand for a bit, through s ome thick slash and up to thetrail. Headed for hill top and then N to knoll. Easy. | ||||||
| 14. |
Hesitated +00:30 | Fought downhill through slash to NS trail and then R to trail heading west. I was actually further S than I thought and would have done better to take the more southerly trail. Hesitated for a bit on the trail near the control because the boulder was so small. Toaster sized. Flag was in a hole on the other side. | |||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:04:30