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It was unseasonably cool (40-45 F) at Oregon Ridge this year. There was even a little bit of snow on the ground, here and there. Considering how I felt after my most recent and only other outing at this park I decided to upgrade from red to blue.
For the most part it wasn’t too navigationally challenging. I only made a couple mistakes and neither of them were big errors.
When I was looking for 6/126, I misread the terrain but my error turned out in my favor. I arrived at the open area that the gas lines run along sooner than I thought I would. At that point I was very close to the control. I went past the control when searching for it, realized my mistake and doubled back. I found it fairly quickly on the second pass.
When I was looking for 13/132, I was travelling through an area that had lots of re-entrants. I started to go up the wrong one, heading east instead of north. I didn’t get very far before I decided to check my compass. Realizing my mistake I changed course and got back on track and didn’t have trouble finding the control.
I had one of those weird moments when I was looking for 14/112. I got close to the control but didn’t see it. I paused for a moment and compared the terrain around me to the map. I guessed where I was on the map and pointed to where the control should be, assuming I was reading the map correctly. I looked up from my map in the direction I was pointing and saw the control, not more than 30 meters away exactly where I was pointing.
The last five controls weren’t difficult to find but it took me about an hour to get to them. The longest leg was from 14 to 15, probably over 1 km.
Blue [19 controls; 10 km; 350 m]
Time: 3:27:43 - winsplits - routegadget
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