Orienteering 1:30:00 [3]
shoes: orienteering shoes
BOK Score-O at Birkhead. This is my first time orienteering on this map, and it was good fun.
The loop I chose probably wasn't optimal point-wise, since the cluster that I didn't get was worth a bit more than the cluster at the end of my loop that I did get, but c'est la vie.
I have no idea how many kilometers it was. Many, I think.
My route was somewhat wandery, but there was just one atrocious control that I overshot and then had to relocate to.
Fun variation: at a couple of the controls, there were additional 'decoy' controls on parallel features...and we didn't have control codes, so based on the control description you had to pick the right one. If you chose wrong, you'd have whatever score you would have gotten subtracted from your total :-).
Orienteering (control pick-up) 40:00 [3]
shoes: orienteering shoes
I picked up the furthest-out four controls plus two decoys. The time is made up, but it's probably rougly correct--it took quite awhile. They were really far away, and also I took this weird arcing route to get back because I just set my compass roughly southwest and ran as fast as I could.
...unfortunately, I went far more west than south and hit a clear-cut hillside that I figured was the out-of-bounds on the side of the map. From there, it was pretty much a straight shot south to the assembly area, but I wasn't 100% sure of my location and it was a long time to be out-of-contact with the map.
Orienteering (control pick-up) 45:00 [3]
shoes: orienteering shoes
Picked up the last 12 controls closer in.
Also got a bit sunburned...I didn't think it would be such a long time in the woods today.