Race Evaluation
Blue Hills Traverse: Traverse
walk
| 1. | All alone going right on the trail after the initial marsh crossing. Slipped going down the final trail on wet rocks covered by wet leaves. Slow route but nice. | ||||||
| 2. | +07:00 | Good route until the final approach when I saw a stream of people coming down the slope. Thought they must be leaving the control - WRONG! Went up and wandered back and forth before I finally looked down and saw it where I had initially been. | |||||
| 3. | R on trail, along E-W trail to junction and then through woods to wall. Slowish compared to along indistinct trail probably but didn't see it. | ||||||
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| 5. | +01:00 | Through woods to pipeline, along to bend and in. Better to have gone back to trail along road. | |||||
| 6. | +00:30 | Trail to right of line. Briefly cut down trail too early but caught it quickly when things didn't look right. | |||||
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| 8. | Trails to road to curve and in, following Jeff Shapiro. Saw a lot of him. | ||||||
| 9. | Back out to road, cut through maintenance parking to trail. | ||||||
| 10. | L on trails and along contour alomost getting run down by Alex! Punched just after Ken | ||||||
| 11. | Followed Ken a bit through green but he was heading away from bag so cut R through green to trail, crossed through more green and then down slope trying to hit next trail but hit stream - and directly across from knoll! | ||||||
| 12. | Up trail, down trail to R, through marsh, up and in. | ||||||
| 13. | Trails and contour over right into bag. | ||||||
| 14. | Ran by Jeff way low still looking for 13 and in generous mood;-} Down to line of cliffs but not obvious which was N one then saw it. | ||||||
| 15. | Straight to N-S trail, around to second bend and in. | ||||||
| 16. | Trails around to just before saddle, around hill to bag. | ||||||
| 17. | Trails to R to last junction, by water tank and then saw bag on R. Thought it would be further L. | ||||||
| 18. | +00:30 | Couldn't make out map but climbed up slope until even with rocky ground on left side of slope and in to cliff just off slope - nothing but saw bag way down rock field. | |||||
| F. | As no one near, slowly worked way down muddy slope to finish. |
Total Time Lost - 00:09:00