Q-H Rootstock, NE corner of marsh
Ran into Clint, who was coming from E. Leaving Q, I broke out my phone to see if Roger had sent a Pepper report, and he had...so, while I had the phone out, I sent Sarah a text update, with Sandy walking away from Q.
and, then a selfie...
Possibly being distracted by the phone, we walked down the road a bit too far, and then had to make our own way to the area of the control, which was on the other side of a swamp and stream.
It was thorny, wet, and the stream was over knee deep in places. After wandering a bit, and with the woman below coming back towards us after bot finding a place to cross, I said I was going in. Sandy said, oh, no, and then she followed. Now all of our feet were wet for sure, and our pants, too. Oh, well, that's what makes it an adventure, and I pointed out that someone I partnered with in the past would have pulled us across the stream much sooner instead of all this diddling around, which is where we ended up anyway. :)
H-G Depression, NE corner of clearing
Easy, peasy, especially with these two guys standing there.
G-F2 (mandatory) Oregon Camp, manned checkpoint (actually, a clipboard)
The two guys from above were planning this complicated route to F2 when Sandy suggested they just follow the big road...which they did. HeHe.
F2-F3 (mandatory) Tunnel entrance, south side
This was a clever control. It was another small tunnel (culvert?), but it was very close to the old turnpike tunnel entrance which we were going to next. I imagine that lots of people went to the big tunnel entrance looking for the flag.
This team punched in there just ahead of us. Though, it turns out that they were a team at all, didn't even know each other, but had hooked up B1, and did the rest of the event together, except that one of them had to go back for B3, because he had skipped it at the beginning, so they didn't tie...
Nice guys.