4-Brown "classic" on an abandoned golf course, Elk Creek Park in Butler Co, OH
Nominal 4.6* km / 85 m climb on a 1:10000 / 5 m contours
30F when we started, and overcast, with a dusting (1/4-1/2") of snow(!) on the grassy surfaces; 39 and sunny when we left
Easy navigation; just a slog to get around the soft surfaces of the grassy fairways, greens, and roughs. Noted at least a dozen and a half stray golf balls no one bothered to find. :-) Had to stop to re-tie a shoe on the leg to 7
Missed a bit on 10, a reentrant in honeysuckle woods that I entered too early.
*distance closer to 4.8 if you count the shortest distance around two uncrossable lakes (one fairly small early on [2-3], the other much larger and the penultimate leg to the finish [14-15, which measures 250 in actual distance but 450-550 run-around distance, depending which side of the lake you went on...I went north around]).
I heard someone swam across the ~30m lake distance on the beeline(?!). Have to check the rules but I don't think that's legal. Hmmm...I'm correct in a way...see
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