Orienteering 1:05:00 [3] *** 5.4 km (12:02 / km)
14c
So control 3 was really really bad. lost 8 minutes there. I followed a slope around and so I wasn't sure which hillside i was on, and i guessed wrong. Took me a long time to recover. This wouldn't have been an issue in the daytime (for the record). 4 was slow because I thought I was staring at a bear. there were two eyes that were close to bear eye width apart. It was looking right at me, then it got taller. I was kinda freaked out so for the next few minutes I kinda looked everywhere expecting to get mauled. I never did, though, and I'm now pretty sure it was a deer. Anyway, got 4. my route wasn't bad it was just being afraid of dying that cost me time. 5 was bad too. route was good for the most part but I mucked up near the end, and kept checking for bears. 6 woulda been a lot better if the trails I was looking for were actually trails and not stone walls. Not a big problem, just ended up going a bit more around. Once I left 6, though, everything started clicking, and I flew through the rest of the course with almost no problems!