Race Evaluation
WCOC Macedonia: Red
walk
| 1. | +00:30 | Straightish on herd path at top of slope, counting stone walls. Hesitated as approached the very green (from below) charcoal pit. | |||||
| 2. | Contoured along the bottom of the steep slope to trail, up trail till flattened out, over spur and in. | ||||||
| 3. | Compass. | ||||||
| 4. | Swung R around nose of spur and hit old woods road that took me right to control. | ||||||
| 5. | Back to woods road till it petered out, along stream and climbed to N-S wall. | ||||||
| 6. | Through the Goodwin Gap, thank you very much, across field, along walls to bend and over to stream and bag. Caught up to Lyn and saw Eric ahead | ||||||
| 7. | Straight - Up to wall junction contouring higher away from stream at sharp bend. Crossed wall and along just below cliffs, across bend in next wall, cross little stream/marshy area, through walls, across E-W wall and up to bag. | ||||||
| 8. | +00:15 | Straight crossing walls, dodging through bits of barberry to ruin(?). Crossed R part but no bag. Looked around and saw it further W. | |||||
| 9. | +00:30 | Off trail at bend, across wall to vague pile of rocks. No bag. Maybe behind the big rock. Nope. Looked over wall enough to see larger cairns. This is the spot; no bag; punch watch and go. No sense looking around if I circled the wrong cairn - which one would be the right one. So... | |||||
| 10. | Down along walls, cross wall and veer L a bit but hit wall of green. Back up and over to corner of wall, over little hille, by knoll, rock and to area that looked like a cliff might develop. Got it. | ||||||
| 11. | L around green through marshy/rocky area and saw it. | ||||||
| 12. | Up | ||||||
| 13. | +03:00 | N, gradually climbing to trail, to junction, along wall staying high and to R which took me into reentrant to E. Oops - head W to bag. | |||||
| 14. | +00:30 | Compass but hit remains of a N-S wall that I couldn't see on map about 30m short. Saw a woman on Orange bend down behind a dead tree. Thank you! and punched. | |||||
| 15. | +01:00 | Compass, climb, up, but hit W platform and had to drop down to bag. | |||||
| 16. | +01:30 | Contoured around trying to keep compass aligned with Mt slope. Sighted off large spur. Then onto large flat and saw bag 50m to R and slightly behind. | |||||
| 17. | Straight down the hill. Nice open woods but steep. Hit walls and down long wall to bag. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:07:15