Race Evaluation
Ward Pound Ridge: Red
Charlie
| 1. | Easy, crossing the walls, going by a control on a similar feature 100+ sooner | ||||||
| 2. | A little slow finding a place to cross the stream. Not much interested in plunging in. | ||||||
| 3. | Fairly straight. Probably better to head right up to the trail. Attacked from the trail. | ||||||
| 4. | +04:00 | Should have gone below, but the climb at the end looked ugly. Stayed high but got hung up in the laurel, so ended up dropping down anyway through nasty rocks and climbing at the end. | |||||
| 5. | Dropped back down and headed S to the road, then across the stream and straight up the hill | ||||||
| 6. | Scary getting down from the hill. Slippery and lots of rocks. OK from there, reading the hills and coming up the slot, although I drifted a little right into an unmapped marsh before correcting. | ||||||
| 7. | Straight south to the pond and along the edge leading to the spur | ||||||
| 8. | Well left of the line looking for the big trail, then skirting the OB, W through the saddle and S to the knoll. | ||||||
| 9. | +12:00 | Left of the marsh, then along the marshy area left of the line, getting a bit confused by the new trail and crossing a bridge to end up on the wrong side of the big spur. Back over the spur to the smaller spur with the two knolls, but no control! A couple of other guys showed up, but couldn't figure out where else it would be, so I bailed out, finding it 60 M away along the way to #10. Turns out one of the master maps was wrong. 5 minutes was my own mistake. 7 minutes lost to the mismarked master map. | |||||
| 10. | Becks out in the distance, lost sight of her after a while. Was going to follow the trail N, but it was so wet that I jumped off at the bend 300 M south of the control and followed the ridge to go right of the small pond and up the reentrant to the control. | ||||||
| 11. | Out to the trail, N to the place where it bends left, then under cliffs to the knoll before the small E-W trail and over, spiking it. | ||||||
| 12. | Climb looked really unpleasant so went way N along under the cliffs until a better place to climb, up to the West Ridge Trail then back S a way until I saw E facing cliffs coming up on the right. Glen passed me about here. Down under most of the cliffs and across. | ||||||
| 13. | Slow picking my way down, and across the stony ground on E side of stream. Just slog along until I get there. | ||||||
| 14. | N along the ridge, eventually dropping down to the trail. The path into the marsh was not that easy to see. | ||||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:16:00