Green course at Hurd St Park, fine course set by Joe. A pleasant ride down with Joe, and then visiting with many of my friends, including PG on his mountain bike, George and Lyn, Jim H and Rich N, Rick and Susie, Steve R, Adam C-B., J-J, Earl.
My back has been acting up more than usual, and this was pretty physically demanding for me. Not much in the way of running more than a shuffle.
Fine to #1, pretty straight, could see the hill from a bit away, cliff on the other side. Got a little off to the left crossing the marsh and had to correct off the cliffs, but still didn't see the dot knoll for a while at 2.
Thought the most direct way to 3 was to take road and stone wall around the private property R of the line, but that didn't seem like much fun, so stayed mostly left of the big hill, or at least of the top of it, tried to make sense of where I was as I crossed trails and walls, got there eventually. When I got nearish, I saw Lyn up ahead of me, and then scampering away toward 4. 4 was fine. A little loose to the trail above, but then pretty secure, popped over the top of the reentrant and saw Lyn down by it.
How to get to 5? Probably best to go right of pond and up to road, but Lyn was headed straight to go across the marsh, which looked ugly, so I ended up going left mostly around the marsh, still getting wet feet, then out to the road, behind Lyn who dealt with the marsh better than my route around, and then found Bill near the control.
Going well up toward 6, left of the stream, then up across the reentrant to the higher ground to the control that was on a cliff, not a marsh, but really no problem.
Started to rain and pretty soon my goggles were all greasy, mostly unusable. I was maybe a line high, stumbling around, dropped down where Lyn and Bill were and we all got it more or less together. Not able to read the map well, headed up to under the cliffs and more or less spiked it, Lyn not far behind. Down the trail and the hill to the road, and then along the road slowly to the small trail, eventually with Lyn and Steve R, The control itself wasn't hard.
Then N to the big rock, but there were so many of them! Only two mapped, but maybe 7 or 8 of them on the ground, but found it ok, and continued N, A little difficult crossing the marsh by the road, but again the control was easy enough.
To 12, headed to the parking area, then up the ridge line, but confused and stopped too early. Bill eventually showed up and I followed him up another cliff group and there it was. Then for 13 I saw the big slot in the cliff and thought I had an easy way in, but it was way to steep and deep, so around and punched in right behind Bill, who showed me a (relatively) clean pair of heels on the way in.
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