Rerun of the 2008 Team Trials Blue. On the way to #2 I realized how difficult the course was going to be with the ankle deep cover of snow. Many of the trails were covered and sidehill running was very slippery.
Looking back at 2 I think the fastest option would have been to go back to the large trail and then drop down on the smaller trail. I would have had more of reference entering #2 and the runnability would have been better.
Also, 5-6 was a bad choice. Way too much climb. The road looked so nice though!
8 and 9 were covered by a forest of fallen trees. Got as close as I could and continued. I lost focus at 10 while reading the route to 11. I reached a new a trail and realized I had lost track of how much I had climbed and thought I perhaps had passed the walls. Saw the stony reentrant and backtracked.
Struggled to move in the area of 14 and 15. The area is essentially a boulder field and the snow made it difficult to cross. Continually fell into holes between the rocks. I thought of going up to the road but it doesn't seem to save any distance over rocks.
Intentionally skipped 17 as there was a group of deer ready to jump into traffic if I continued in that direction.