I have been carrying my camera with me for all of my workouts recently, but today I left it in the car because I needed the space in my little pack for the streamers I was hanging for Sandy to find on Friday. So, I whipped out the phone and took this photo at #4 - a humongous rootstock. Heck, I was going to hang it on this one even if it wasn't the correct one just because the size of it was so impressive! But, that was lost in the photo because the snake was so cool. I took three photos, getting closer and closer, until it started hissing (I don't believe it was rattling) and went back into it's hole.
Now, back to the streamer hanging...knowing that I suck on the art of precision control placement, I was extra careful, and took some really conservative routes. That didn't help me to #3 which was a shallow reentrant in a field of green - dumb control in February, and even dumber in June, especially with the additional blow downs which may have occurred between now and then. I circled around, and relocated twice, and finally slapped my streamers on a rootstock a couple of hundred meters away.
Took a really long way around to #4 so I could at least run on one of my favorite trails, and found the snake and rootstock mentioned above. After tying the streamers on the snakes tail, it disappeared into a hole. I hope he comes out next Friday in time to be found again.
Pleased with 4 to 5 after bumping off of a gully. I think the next control is greener than mapped in the area, but the streamers are within the correct vicinity. :)
Then my adventures to #7. I had read MW comment on RG from February about this control which was used on the Green course - the comment was not complimentary of the map in this area, so I should have given up sooner, but instead I bounced around for 30 minutes before picking a gully across the road to put the control in instead. Sorry about the extra climb, Sandy.
Enjoyed this in retrospect, especially after seeing my tracks and seeing that I was mostly in the circle.