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Wednesday Jun 27, 2018 #
6 AM
Orienteering race 54:56 *** 3.59 km (15:19 / km) +79m 13:48 / km
ahr:131 max:156 spiked:8/11c slept:8.0 shoes: 2011 icebugs
Middle distance at Grosté. We rode up to the lift with Giovanni and Katia, then waited 25 minutes in the lift line. The line kept growing behind us, so lucky we had plenty of time. Didn’t stay long at the finish because I accompanied Rhonda up the hill another 700M to the start, which gave me 40 minutes to visit with people coming up for their starts.
stage 2
So, the race. We started from a point along the lift line. Mostly open or semi-open, but very lumpy, with low shrubs, lots of holes small and large, some pointy rock features etc, on the way to 1 I made the critical error of going on compass and navigating off the lift poles on the next lift over. Then I climbed up the reentrant, looking for the small reentrant up the left side, but not finding it because it was closed on the bottom. Certainly more like a depression than a reentrant. Anyway, I continued up, now sure I was too high, but found some rocky pits and I was then only one line above the control. A much better route would have been contouring around to the left, no down, no up and a direct path in.
2. Short leg to a boulder, easy enough except really hard to get there, even after I could see the flag. Some steep hillsides and ground full of holes.
3. Then another mistake going straight. It took me a long time to scramble down some nasty cliffs, hanging on to whatever shrubs I could grab. Much better would have been a route around to the right flattening out the descent. The control was easy to see from a distance.
4. Longest leg, across the ski slope, and friendlier terrain on that side. It was hard to climb up to the ski slope, but once across I could go on compass and hit it right on, running down a reentrant opposite a cliff and to the pit above the cliff.
5. Easiest control, Boulder at the bottom of the steep scree slope, so couldn’t overrun it. It was behind a fairly large patch of trees mapped dark green, so the only trouble was getting through the numerous rocks.
6. Here I lost a bit of focus and paid for it. Thought I would come to the trail and go along it for a bit looking for a useful attack point, but crossed the trail without noticing it, and then everything started to look alike. Checked a couple of codes along the way, but I was too short, then got below it a line before figuring it out.
7. Tried to go pretty straight which involved down into a broad valley, up and over a spur, to a small reentrant on the far side of the spur, but once on top I wasn’t sure whether to go right or left (straight would have been optimal). Drifted a bit left and found a distinctive reentrant which set me up just fine, but probably lost a minute or so.
8. No real problem except the killer climb getting up to it. Had to stop and catch my breath a few times. Maybe better to have headed more left to save climb, but can’t complain.
9. Good leg, across the ski slope, checking off some useful features, hill past the slope, cross trail just left of the boulder, then on compass until I saw the reentrant with the cliff on the far side and the knoll behind that. Perfect.
10. Left of the big cliff, more or less on compass and staying high, a little further than I thought but came right to it.
11. Difficult footing, but no mistaking where to go.
finish.
stage 2
So, the race. We started from a point along the lift line. Mostly open or semi-open, but very lumpy, with low shrubs, lots of holes small and large, some pointy rock features etc, on the way to 1 I made the critical error of going on compass and navigating off the lift poles on the next lift over. Then I climbed up the reentrant, looking for the small reentrant up the left side, but not finding it because it was closed on the bottom. Certainly more like a depression than a reentrant. Anyway, I continued up, now sure I was too high, but found some rocky pits and I was then only one line above the control. A much better route would have been contouring around to the left, no down, no up and a direct path in.
2. Short leg to a boulder, easy enough except really hard to get there, even after I could see the flag. Some steep hillsides and ground full of holes.
3. Then another mistake going straight. It took me a long time to scramble down some nasty cliffs, hanging on to whatever shrubs I could grab. Much better would have been a route around to the right flattening out the descent. The control was easy to see from a distance.
4. Longest leg, across the ski slope, and friendlier terrain on that side. It was hard to climb up to the ski slope, but once across I could go on compass and hit it right on, running down a reentrant opposite a cliff and to the pit above the cliff.
5. Easiest control, Boulder at the bottom of the steep scree slope, so couldn’t overrun it. It was behind a fairly large patch of trees mapped dark green, so the only trouble was getting through the numerous rocks.
6. Here I lost a bit of focus and paid for it. Thought I would come to the trail and go along it for a bit looking for a useful attack point, but crossed the trail without noticing it, and then everything started to look alike. Checked a couple of codes along the way, but I was too short, then got below it a line before figuring it out.
7. Tried to go pretty straight which involved down into a broad valley, up and over a spur, to a small reentrant on the far side of the spur, but once on top I wasn’t sure whether to go right or left (straight would have been optimal). Drifted a bit left and found a distinctive reentrant which set me up just fine, but probably lost a minute or so.
8. No real problem except the killer climb getting up to it. Had to stop and catch my breath a few times. Maybe better to have headed more left to save climb, but can’t complain.
9. Good leg, across the ski slope, checking off some useful features, hill past the slope, cross trail just left of the boulder, then on compass until I saw the reentrant with the cliff on the far side and the knoll behind that. Perfect.
10. Left of the big cliff, more or less on compass and staying high, a little further than I thought but came right to it.
11. Difficult footing, but no mistaking where to go.
finish.
1 PM
Hike 1:45:00 [3] 5.0 mi (21:00 / mi)
I’ll fated decision to walk down the mountain with those noted mountain goats, Rhonda, George and Lyn, Jeff and Judy. Did most of it still wearing my ice bugs, carrying the backpack, deeply tired and sore footed when we got back.
8 PM
Note
Back to the excellent Hotel Dahu with Jeff and Judy for dinner, particularly nice because with 4 people we could order different things. I had a first course of maccheroni cacio e pepe, Rhonda a rice dish with vegetables and ham, Judy a kind of spaetzle and Jeff a parsnip soup with ginger and turmeric. Second course, pork shank for me, beefsteak for Rhonda and Jeff, smoked fish platter for Judy. Desserts, peaches stuffed with almonds and amaretto and a wine sauce, a lovely cake with ricotta and berries and chocolate pudding. Quite fine.