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Sunday Feb 25, 2018 #
10 AM
Orienteering race (desert) 1:52:16 **** 5.78 km (19:26 / km) +131m 17:27 / km
ahr:119 max:147 spiked:9/11c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
GPHXO NRE at First Water in Tonto Nat'l Forest near Superstition Mountains (which are beautiful).
1:10000, 20' interval map, and very generalized contours. Very physical for a brown course too. 3.7km, 130m climb
Fine to 1 then headed toward 2. Found the correct reentrant for 2 (mapped as a subtle indentation in the hillside) but looked down it and didn't see a flag and didn't want to descend where it got steeper and rockier unless I knew a flag was there. Circled around the spur before figuring yes it was the correct reentrant. Flag was tucked down a bit farther in a steep part (which was not necessarily indicated on the map).
Okay to 3 albeit slow, getting used to how undefined the reentrants really were (my first 4 controls were reentrants, mapped as anywhere from 20-60m wide where circled). 4 wasn't difficult to find but physical to reach; I went around the two-contour reentrant SE of it taking trail part of the way just to avoid more climb than necessary.
Thought I was on a good line to 5 but once I hit the reentrant and turned left I didn't see a rocky hillside, or even the mapped cave downstream, even when I went all the way N to the trail to check. Turned around at the trail and followed the wash/reentrant back upstream and eventually found the rocky hillside and cave (boulder overhang) farther up the hill than expected.
Did okay on the rest but wasn't a happy camper at this point, having to cross (or otherwise go WAY around) a 5-contour hill (and descend 3 of them again) to get to an easy-to-locate boulder next to bare rock. Another unavoidable 3-contour climb to 8 then it was gentler and more runnable (considering the desert) from there to the finsh.
Almost caught up to Ardis near 9-10-11; Mary Jo was about 15 minutes faster. Eileen, on her bum leg, was the fastest on the course in 78 minutes.
Everyone competing (not very many of us) received a cute GPHXO coffee mug, so that's a plus. ;-)
1:10000, 20' interval map, and very generalized contours. Very physical for a brown course too. 3.7km, 130m climb
Fine to 1 then headed toward 2. Found the correct reentrant for 2 (mapped as a subtle indentation in the hillside) but looked down it and didn't see a flag and didn't want to descend where it got steeper and rockier unless I knew a flag was there. Circled around the spur before figuring yes it was the correct reentrant. Flag was tucked down a bit farther in a steep part (which was not necessarily indicated on the map).
Okay to 3 albeit slow, getting used to how undefined the reentrants really were (my first 4 controls were reentrants, mapped as anywhere from 20-60m wide where circled). 4 wasn't difficult to find but physical to reach; I went around the two-contour reentrant SE of it taking trail part of the way just to avoid more climb than necessary.
Thought I was on a good line to 5 but once I hit the reentrant and turned left I didn't see a rocky hillside, or even the mapped cave downstream, even when I went all the way N to the trail to check. Turned around at the trail and followed the wash/reentrant back upstream and eventually found the rocky hillside and cave (boulder overhang) farther up the hill than expected.
Did okay on the rest but wasn't a happy camper at this point, having to cross (or otherwise go WAY around) a 5-contour hill (and descend 3 of them again) to get to an easy-to-locate boulder next to bare rock. Another unavoidable 3-contour climb to 8 then it was gentler and more runnable (considering the desert) from there to the finsh.
Almost caught up to Ardis near 9-10-11; Mary Jo was about 15 minutes faster. Eileen, on her bum leg, was the fastest on the course in 78 minutes.
Everyone competing (not very many of us) received a cute GPHXO coffee mug, so that's a plus. ;-)