1. | Early start - I have the woods to myself...Up trail to ditch, to control. Lots of blueberry - and my chosen angle takes me through the most possible amount. | ||||||
2. | Drop down to trail and follow stream up to control. | ||||||
3. | +10:00 | Up to trail and head for the curve in trail. Do not recognize it becasue it seems so straight. Decide to head in anyway and sight the building. Get within about 20 feet of the control and have serious doublts about knowing weher I am. Head back to trail and come out nearly where I had come out of 2. Head up the trail again and from the same point with a bit more confidence try it again. Locate it this time in a very familiar area. Aggghhh!!! | |||||
4. | +03:00 | A bit shaky confidence wise, I head to 4. Locate another control near the platform to the NE of #2. Climb to the top of the hill, reevaluate the situtation and go back down to the right area. | |||||
5. | +01:00 | Climb, thrash through trash, find control. | |||||
6. | +01:00 | Manage to go through maximun blueberry again. End up on rocks about 50 m south of control. | |||||
7. | Fairly clean to control - lots more blueberry. | ||||||
8. | Very leary of this control. Would not have been surprised if I had ended up in the forest, so I decide going for the trail west of the control would be a good plan. Don't find the trail but nail the control which confirms that I would have ended up in the forest if I hadn't aimed for the trail. | ||||||
9. | Crash down the hill at "top" speed thus finishing a section of 3 good controls for me. | ||||||
10. | +02:00 | Down the hill, through the woods to the trail. Wanted to use the clearing as an attack point, but I go in too soon. Find the indistinct trail and follow it to the control. | |||||
11. | +01:00 | Up to the trail & plan to go in at the rocky area opposite of the trail but don't go down the trail far enough to actually see the rocky area. Wander around a bit in the pine grove. | |||||
12. | +01:00 | Head cross county to hit the trail after the big curve. A little shaken from the last 2 controls, I head to the GO control, all the way to the GO control, in at the GO control, in front of witnesses. Head to the control. | |||||
13. | Haul butt back to the GO control. Ummm, I think I know where it is... | ||||||
F. | Run hard into the finish, past the pickup truck, and done. |
Total Time Lost - 00:19:00