Left Pittsburgh at 10 AM to arrive here at 11:40 AM. It started raining at noon, and there were definitely less people than last year. Also, recognized a family that participated in yesterday's O-meet at Boyce Park. At the end of the rain, it turned nicer, and we did a mass start at about 12:50. We took a clock-wise route, going for the southern half. The underwater control 20 drifted away, and a speck of orange could be seen at about 300 meters to the East. On the approach, I thought it was a buoy, but then, realizing that some other canoers went to it, and afterwards were not following us, we realized it HAD TO BE the control, and paddled back it. We stopped at the small island where control 4 was, and found some blueberries. Arrived some minutes late, and with the unusual logarithmic algorithm that NEOOC uses, I am sure we will be subtracted 7.85 points (intentional sarcasm here...) Yoh! Result recorder! you didn't notice that we punched box 25 (the three holes are barely visible, see below for enlarged image).
Route
Upper portion of reservoir
Bob Boltz route. In yellow is the canoe solo by his canoe partner, while Bob ran on land.
Part of map with hole punches
punched square missed by the results recorder
1 comment:
Given such detailed photographic evidence, how can I not give you credit for that control?! It moves you up one place (although that 73.65 point penalty does weigh heavily...).
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