Race Evaluation
DVOA Frontier Festival: Blue - Day 1
randy
| 1. | right trail around to clear area then attack off of light green hill. Straight looks good on the map, but the "rough open" looked uninviting ... | ||||||
| 2. | ouch | ||||||
| 3. | trashy woods pushes me left onto spur | ||||||
| 4. | ouch. End up high and tunnel thru the green somehow | ||||||
| 5. | up and around past lake and backdoor control. Looked at the more direct indistint trail route but was not brave enough to attempt to execute it | ||||||
| 6. |
Unused to map Unused to terrain +03:00 | straightish crossing vehicle track, onto east-west trail, then off of bend where it goes downhill. The yellow did not make sense to me -- lost confidence and ended up at the fence to the west | |||||
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Underrated difficulty Frustrated +02:00 | same exact route and problem as Eric. Must have been within 2 meters of the control the first time ... | |||||
| 8. |
Hesitated +00:15 | around left of fence, down trail -- hesitated a bit looking for it -- across swamp -- found indistinct trail -- up stream/reentrant | |||||
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| 10. | down righthand stream/reentrant -- did not see trail option to left -- went right on trail on side of hill -- cut in at rosebush braving the green -- hit intermittant trail -- found bend -- and someone was nice enough to have trimmed a path with hedge clippers from the bend to the bag! | ||||||
| 11. | straightish -- passing to the right of the dark green pine trees -- hitting a little left of indistinct trail, which I took in to the control | ||||||
| 12. | indistinct trails to main trail -- diagonal across yellow -- cut thru first wall of green where it looks least nasty -- stay in the yellow thru the little corridors of yellow near the misc piece of junk north of the line, cross stream and take main trails in. | ||||||
| 13. | keep your eye on the ball ... northerly route | ||||||
| 14. |
Hesitated +00:15 | south on trail to corner -- hesitated to make sure this was really what I wanted to do -- cut southeast thru light green to main trail north of DB lake -- pick my way on various trails all the way to just northeast of the circle in a straight a line as possible, with decent speed -- then find the right ride of head high weeds to the flag, trampling it down for anyone else who takes this route | |||||
| 15. |
Bad map reading +00:45 | out to track -- all the way southeast to the trail, seen one thornbush, you've seen 'em all ... trail to reentrant to saddle -- misread contour features and overshot control | |||||
| 16. | over and contour in | ||||||
| 17. | find spur and in | ||||||
| 18. | bail to the north -- not quite sure of something -- go up towards lake and find indistinct northbound trail -- take it all the way to bend then down shallow reentrant with marsh | ||||||
| 19. | straight | ||||||
| 20. | had trouble finding the trails thru the green | ||||||
| F. | slow. After 7 hours of hanging and vetting the day before, I guess its ok to be slow ... Had fun, despite the "transitional forest and distinct vegetation features" |
Total Time Lost - 00:06:15