Race Evaluation
BAOC B Meet, Big Basin: Blue
Tundra/Desert
| 1. | High. | ||||||
| 2. |
Hesitated +00:20 | SW around the spur, found Van (who started 4 min ahead) as I left the road. Hesitated before the control; Van found it for me. | |||||
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| 6. | Van was slightly back until here... | ||||||
| 7. | ... but I did not hear him on this leg. | ||||||
| 8. |
Bad route choice Did not like map Confused parallel features +03:25 | After I crossed the road, I got stuck in the mismapped green (trying to find the gap was a losing proposition). Got back into the white and missed to the S, finding another perfect redwood circle. As I recovered, Van came. The better route (taken by Bruce) was S of the green. | |||||
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Did not plan ahead +00:25 | Went lower than needed, grazing the second-green in the process. Had to climb steeply up at the end. Van kept up, on the better route. | |||||
| 10. |
Bad map reading Bad compass work +04:20 | Van suddenly started to pull away?!.. I went a little too far left, and by the time I crossed all the reentrants, I could not see him. I misread the reentrants by one and spent time searching too low. Finally relocated once I saw the park road at a distance. | |||||
| 11. |
Did not like map +03:05 | Could not understand anything among the mapped depressions, even though I had a good attack point (however acquired after some confusion), a U in the green. Relocated once I saw the park road. | |||||
| 12. | Went through all the green. Nailed it. Van was there. | ||||||
| 13. | Chased Van. | ||||||
| 14. | +02:00 | Went high and approached from near the clearing, but could not identify the tree among other trees just like it. I was too far N, though. Relocated from the trail-stream junction to the SE. Van went straight, an inferior route, and got there just as I was done. | |||||
| 15. |
Bad route choice +01:30 | Went low. It was a very steep, green climb up to it. A whole 1'30 lost to the best split?!.. | |||||
| 16. |
Bad route choice Did not like map +05:20 | Went straight (after Van, who pulled away again?!..). In 1998, this leg went to the same X, but from around #14, so the high route was a no-brainer. Crossed the main stream and ended up on a very steep slope; the map showed a flatter part between the stream and the steep slope. Ended up slowly searching up the steep slope. Saw bikers on the park road, came back. As I was going down, I saw that the gradual slope was indeed there, just not starting as low as where I originally crossed the stream. I had been looking at this flatter slope and thinking it was on the other side of the stream. If I had gone on the road, I would have easily found it, just like in 1998. | |||||
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Did not like map +01:10 | Climbed the spur; there was no ridgeline (one was mapped), the slope just went on. I checked stuff out further along across the imaginary ridgeline, then came back—the ridgeline appeared lower on the spur. Found Van again! After all the wonderings! | |||||
| 18. |
Bad map reading +00:25 | Stayed on the trail too long (too far S), crossed the S stream; had to come back N. | |||||
| 19. |
Frustrated | Pretty frustrated, so was slow. | |||||
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Total Time Lost - 00:22:00