Race Evaluation
UNO Joe English: Red
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| 2. | +04:00 | Went to just about the right spot, things didn't look like I expected, went back out to trail, went right past the control feature, found the boulder cluster below, and finally spotted the flag between the two boulders. | |||||
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| 4. | The map showed a trail along the edge of the explosive zone, but I didn't see one, so maybe the mapper just used that as a random symbol to mark the boundary. Glad I was told that the circle was off, because I doubt I would have seen the flag on my way past the boulder. | ||||||
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| 6. | Wasn't paying attention and made a wrong turn at the stone wall after the bridge, so I traveled a little farther than I needed to. There were two pretty big cliffs on that knoll, and I'm not sure if the control was on the one that's mapped. | ||||||
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| 8. | Took the indistinct trail. | ||||||
| 9. | Some of the white woods was really young hemlocks, which slowed me down. | ||||||
| 10. | +04:00 | Oof. Too far left, picked up the indistinct trail leading to the clearing, but I realized it. Unfortunately, when I got to the clearing I was in an area with a whole bunch of unmapped logging roads, and I mistook one of them for the one I wanted. Went back and forth before figuring it out. | |||||
| 11. | Through the woods early on, then stayed on the trail later because the woods appeared to be a sea of young white pines. | ||||||
| 12. | +12:00 | Big error. Left the trail when it turned uphill, and hit the stream at the foot of a big cliff. I was thinking it was the southernmost one (which makes no sense), but it was probably the big one SE of the control. I also misread the contours and was expecting the boulder to be closer to the stream. So I chugged up the stream for a while until I found a boulder, which was a coule of hundred meters too far up. Realized where I was, turned around, and missed again on the way down because I was looking too close to the stream. Finally attacked successfully from the stone wall SW of the control. | |||||
| 13. | Had trouble figuring out what trail on the ground corresponded to what on the map, and was on some unmapped indistinct things for a while. I had grabbed a ratty old pair of O-shoes for today, and didn't put any additional ductape on them. On this leg, the tape gave way, and I suddenly had a serious case of Talking Shoe, with the front half of my foot dangling out in space.. | ||||||
| 14. | Slightly north of the line, and hit the big trail at the junction with the small trail that led to the bridge (which I was glad about when I saw how big the stream was).Not sure the trail is mapped right west of the stream, and I was pretty unprepared for what I found in the circle, old mill or bridge abutment or whatever it was. | ||||||
| F. | Arrived at the finish with no punchcard. Went back and found it in front of the house, about where a dog had come out and barked at me. |
Total Time Lost - 00:20:00