Discussion: I skipped 7, poorly.

I think 7 was probably the 2nd best one to skip, after 8, because 7-8 was ridiculous. I think I lost ~ 3+ minutes on the skip, but I executed it a bit suboptimally. Mark Blair did it well - after the plunge on the trail through the dark green, he went SE and around the hill before cruising up toward 8. I stuck to the trail, but that had ~6 contours of climb and was probably as long as Mark's around route. Plus I missed the whole wiggly trail thing.

Had I executed it correctly, I think it may have only been about 1-2 minutes off the skip of #8.