Race Evaluation
UNO Pawtuckaway State Park Camping Weekend: Red 2
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| 1. | Started out pursuing Abbey Gosling and Tracey Olafsen (on Green), knew exactly where I was when I crossed the road, then with no plan, I floundered, eventually seeing the road to my left, and wound up taking the indistinct trail around. | ||||||
| 2. | A&T were a little ahead of me, and Tim Parson just a few steps ahead (he had started later and caught up). I wound up on the indistinct trail, which was easy enough to follow, while Tim was thrashing through the woods parallel to it. Left at the bend, and worked my way down to a likely looking knoll, which had Dean on it. That wasn't very helpful, since there is no map symbol for Dean, but it was on the NW edge of the circle, and easy to get to the control from there. | ||||||
| 3. | Used Tim for a handrail for a while (make sure I could hear him off to the side, and eventually had to figure out where I was. Since I was going parallel to the lake shore, that wasn't too hard. | ||||||
| 4. | A bit off line to the right, but that made it easy to keep track of where I was by using marshes. Minor uncertainty at the very end due to low visibility. | ||||||
| 5. | Passed Isabel going down the hill. Tim was in here, and he got a better line going to the beaver dam, while I was too far left and got caught up in some green. | ||||||
| 6. | Up the steep hill, around the S end of the swamp, and carefully from there. Stopped at about the right spot, squinted at the map, and decided it should be right behind me, which it was. | ||||||
| 7. | Absolutely fine for the first 90% of the leg, then bumped into the stone wall too far east, and that should have helped me get right there. Instead, I managed to get to the circle, and spend some time matching things up incorrectly until I finally found the control by looking in a lot of places. | ||||||
| 8. | Rememberd this area from setting controls the day before, and in fact I had already seen the control coming from the opposite direction. No real trouble. | ||||||
| 9. | Bashed my way through to the trail, near a very large boulder that's mapped as a small boulder. The pond on the other side showed me where I was. Went past a night-O control (considered taking it with me) around N side of pond near control, and no had problem. | ||||||
| 10. | Took the new trail, which I had been on the day before and knew it would be pretty useful. Too much relying on memory and not enough map reading, though: I went past the marsh and continued to the end of the narrow pond. But I was thinking it was the narrow pond SW of the marsh, when it was actually the one W of the marsh. That explained why nothing matched up. Wandered aimlessly up there until I found something that I recognized NW of the control, and read my way in from there. | ||||||
| 11. | S of the first marshes, and saw the night-O control on the N tip of pond, then N around the second pair of marshes, past another night-O control and easily in. | ||||||
| 12. | Should have been absolutely easy. Saw the big boulder trio when crossing the trail, but then I got confused because there was more wet ground on the other side than the map showed. I found the night-O control on the hill just NW of where I needed to be, but I forgot what feature it was on, and I spent forever in the reentrant just to the NW of it trying to get something to match up. Clearly my brain was too tired, Finally headed SE and found it with no trouble. | ||||||
| 13. | At least I did this one okay. I think. | ||||||
| 14. | Too far right, but I realized it and corrected before too much damage was done. | ||||||
| 15. | S to the road, and cut in when I cot very close to the control. Dean was there, having taken about the same time on Green that I took on Red. | ||||||
| F. | Pretty pathetic showing, but it appeared to be better than anybody else who ran Red... |
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