Discussion: Why all the way around the baseball field?

From 11 to 12, looks like cutting through the baseball fields would be more direct. Wa there a good reason not to do that?

Looks like a reasonably intricate map. Would be fun to do a sprint-O there. Also, my earliest childhood memories of the "outdoors" are from Central Park: row boating on the lake, climbing up on the small rocky knolls (perhaps mapped as bare rock here).

Fence around the baseball fields (not mapped). It is an incredibly fun place for sprints. Impossible logistics for set up. This was a pretty stealth meet, with cardboard controls, no punches.

It is a wonderful park. The bare rock outcrops are beautiful. So much variety, gets so much use. Very well endowed and in the news lately as John Paulson donated $100 million to it.

On the green course I had two controls in the Ramble (1 and 5). When I told my cousin about the course his eyebrows went up. He thinks of the Ramble as a pretty forbidding place. But then he's a city guy.

The Ramble: forbidding because of potential crime, or just easy to get lost?

The former. Site of a few notorious incidents over the years, perhaps not surprising because it is a place where it is relatively easy not to be seen.