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Saturday Apr 12, 2014 #
9 AM
Orienteering race 1:31:49 [2] 5.87 mi (15:38 / mi) +365m 13:07 / mi
West Point Classic Blue
1 Straight down the side of the lake and hill. Picked up some of the indistinct trail Went up the hill and ran along the top.
2 Straight across the roads and over the hill. Really good attack point off the trail where the clearing was.
3 I wanted to avoid some green, so I went west and came back up into the reentrant. Probably would have been faster to just go straight.
4 Road run past the water. Came off the road and contoured around to the control. May have been faster to stay on the road longer and just drop into it from the top, but it looked like some nasty green on the map.
5 Up to the trail which was a lot closer then the map made it look, very indistinct, ran the trail cutting corners to the big bowl and then cut across to the control seeing 7 on the way.
6 Up up up. Across the trail and into the bare rock, much more obvious than expected.
7 Bash out to the road and then back into the control I had already seen on my way to 5.
8 Bash to the road veering east to avoid the swamp, then across the end of Suck Swamp and up the hill to the control. I could see the cliff/rock to the north of the control.
9 Went low below the hill which was a fight with the green the whole way. I knew I just had to push out to the trail and then follow it into the control. The white woods were so much nicer once I broke free that I think going high sooner, just around the cliff at the nose may have been better.
10 Out to the water and then a climb. Big mistake and the map doesn't match what I think I did wrong. I'm sure I was too high up the ridge and came back downhill into the control. QR shows me too far east and contouring around.
11 Long road run was the only good option. I wasn't going back through the green after battling it on the way to 9. At a Gu on the way and encountered a women coming out of the woods with a roll of concertina wire. I was sure she was horribly injured when I first saw here and stopped to help, but no, she had just found it in the woods and decided it would be a good idea to take it back to the trail. No idea how she was doing that without cutting herself. The Cadets I told about this afterwords were also amazed. Exited the rail at the tight turn and went down to the big clearing with the bare rock. I was really sure where I was but couldn't see my cliff or the control. When I finally went 25ft east, it was obvious, but lots of time wasted standing there confused.
12 Down the ridge and a safe approach in from the top passing the mapped cliffs and rock on the way.
13 Out to the road and across with Clem. We both ended up on the road way to far west and were confused why we had to go so far east on the ridge to find the control. Nasty with lots of trees down on the top.
14 Along the road and to the field where I ran downhill to the control.
15 And all the way back up again.
16 I'm sure this was either in the wrong place or mapped wrong, as supported by QR. It was much further NE than shown, which messed up my next leg.
17 Went west on a bering to the next control, but ended up crossing the swap and way to far north. Makes sense now if 16 wasn't where mapped.
18 I hate this kind of forest, flat bland pine forest with lots of trees down.
19 I was right on the line, but at some point decided to jog north and had to fight my way back down south at the end to get to the control. Lots of fallen trees.
20 Straight across the top dodging trees.
21 Along the road to the control. Still no idea what the clue was supposed to mean. Top of road?
1 Straight down the side of the lake and hill. Picked up some of the indistinct trail Went up the hill and ran along the top.
2 Straight across the roads and over the hill. Really good attack point off the trail where the clearing was.
3 I wanted to avoid some green, so I went west and came back up into the reentrant. Probably would have been faster to just go straight.
4 Road run past the water. Came off the road and contoured around to the control. May have been faster to stay on the road longer and just drop into it from the top, but it looked like some nasty green on the map.
5 Up to the trail which was a lot closer then the map made it look, very indistinct, ran the trail cutting corners to the big bowl and then cut across to the control seeing 7 on the way.
6 Up up up. Across the trail and into the bare rock, much more obvious than expected.
7 Bash out to the road and then back into the control I had already seen on my way to 5.
8 Bash to the road veering east to avoid the swamp, then across the end of Suck Swamp and up the hill to the control. I could see the cliff/rock to the north of the control.
9 Went low below the hill which was a fight with the green the whole way. I knew I just had to push out to the trail and then follow it into the control. The white woods were so much nicer once I broke free that I think going high sooner, just around the cliff at the nose may have been better.
10 Out to the water and then a climb. Big mistake and the map doesn't match what I think I did wrong. I'm sure I was too high up the ridge and came back downhill into the control. QR shows me too far east and contouring around.
11 Long road run was the only good option. I wasn't going back through the green after battling it on the way to 9. At a Gu on the way and encountered a women coming out of the woods with a roll of concertina wire. I was sure she was horribly injured when I first saw here and stopped to help, but no, she had just found it in the woods and decided it would be a good idea to take it back to the trail. No idea how she was doing that without cutting herself. The Cadets I told about this afterwords were also amazed. Exited the rail at the tight turn and went down to the big clearing with the bare rock. I was really sure where I was but couldn't see my cliff or the control. When I finally went 25ft east, it was obvious, but lots of time wasted standing there confused.
12 Down the ridge and a safe approach in from the top passing the mapped cliffs and rock on the way.
13 Out to the road and across with Clem. We both ended up on the road way to far west and were confused why we had to go so far east on the ridge to find the control. Nasty with lots of trees down on the top.
14 Along the road and to the field where I ran downhill to the control.
15 And all the way back up again.
16 I'm sure this was either in the wrong place or mapped wrong, as supported by QR. It was much further NE than shown, which messed up my next leg.
17 Went west on a bering to the next control, but ended up crossing the swap and way to far north. Makes sense now if 16 wasn't where mapped.
18 I hate this kind of forest, flat bland pine forest with lots of trees down.
19 I was right on the line, but at some point decided to jog north and had to fight my way back down south at the end to get to the control. Lots of fallen trees.
20 Straight across the top dodging trees.
21 Along the road to the control. Still no idea what the clue was supposed to mean. Top of road?