Orienteering race 49:02 [5] 6.33 km (7:45 / km) +20m 7:38 / km
shoes: Jalas FLX
Long Weekend, Jason's Task, Course 1
they call it the moonscape and I was like an alien out there, flat area with vague erosion gullies (marked as streams, proper gullies, and impassable cliff), couldn't read it ... more to follow after I've studied my GPS track
also, technically, did not start: they put the start box after the map boxes here and they didn't actually mention them
#1 used line of creek as handrail, but undergrowth had grown and kept running into unmarked stuff [90s]
#3 crossed 'stream' without noticing - more like a shallow erosion gully [20s]
#4 bad direction from AP, slow, until attacking from path [120s]
#5 bad direction out of control, hit path too far east, confused [20s]
#6 lost confidence and bailed out of bearing in wrong direction, couldn't relocate on gullies [7mins!]
#9 diverted around steep gully and dodgy undergrowth [60s+]
#F bad direction to finish [20s]
a little more care and caution might have seen me through to a half-decent result, but the terrain was fast and the course was short ...
6th (of 7), 10mins behind Karl :(