Wow. Really not good.
Knee was fine but afterwards it started to not be fine
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Start to 1:
Ok but I was too low and it took me a bit to figure that out (luckily I hit the stream cause otherwise it would've taken longer)
1 to 2:
I took my time at 1 to make a plan because I knew if I went running off right out of 1 it wasn't going to go well. I chose to go down the reentrant and along the swamp to hit the bend in the trail and from there I followed along the hill, recognizing that when it started to turn my control would be in the second reentrant. Pretty good but hesitant as always.
2 to 3:
Honestly I could not say exactly what I was thinking out there but I got way too low, saw the river/stream below me after a bit of wandering and took a few seconds to realize that I was too far down.
3 to 4:
This was fine. Nothing really to say about it
4 to 5:
Ok, went along the hill and down and then crossed before the swamp and just got myself up the hill where it looked easiest. The top of the hill was nasty so it wasnt quick moving getting over to the control.
5 to 6:
Read the line to 9, so I went to 9, got there and realized my mistake. Looking back at it I should have gone back down the hill and along the nice white but instead i decided to go over the hill tops with green slash, not in quite the direction I wanted and so I ended up along the route I should have been taking anyway. From the trail it was fine though.
6 to 7:
Just down the reentrant and to the right on the flat. The boulder was large so it was pretty easy to see.
7 to 8:
Back to the trail and along until the spur after the green slash. Along the hill to the swamp and cliff and around. Then I messed up a ton because the swamp extended in the reentrant so I was at the wrong bare rock and spent wayyy too long wandering around them until I decided to go a little east and I found it.
8 to 9:
I got off and too far right, ended up going along the long part of the green slash but the approach was fine because I had already been there.
9 to 10:
Just to add to my mistakes I read to go back to 8, got there and just thought "what the hell are you doing" and ran down the nice white reentrant. The attack from there was pretty good though.
10 to 11:
I planned to get to the veg boundary but ended up on the trail. Not too bad though, just ended up running along the hill to the spur.
11 to 12:
Leaving 11 I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to get through the green (probably should've gone north east in the white) but I ended up just bashing through where a few people clearly had gone already. From there I just stayed on trails until the white and cut up from there.
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