Orienteering race (Rogaine) 12:00:00 [3]
shoes: New balance MA955
First day of the NA Rogaine Champs at Hat Creek, with my teammate Hingo.
See Bash's report for details! We ended up running into the TH/Sherpas several times, including one CP where I navigated by contouring, and managed to lose us 40 minutes on them! We did a bit of towing and running, but much of the terriain in the first part wasn't really running territory. Many CPs were hard to see until you were right on them, and reflectors were low on the SIs. Features were smaller than at the Worlds last year.
We did pretty well by daylight, but had a horrible time with the night nav. We spent over an hour looking for one CP, and when I found it there were 3 reflectors, with 2 of them wide apart turning to look at me over a dark furry body. I let the bear have that one!