Tuesday, November 13, 2007

USARA Nationals Checkpoints 10-12



CP10 was easy but CP11 was tricky with no obvious attack point. For those teams hitting it with daylight it was a simple matter of counting re-entrants to the south of the trail. For teams hitting it at night - the trail was located in a small valley and the re-entrants were not visible from the trail. We did end up hitting the re-entrant east of the correct one. We realized our mistake and headed over the ridge to the correct re-entrant eventually dropping down teh re-entrant to the control. The other challenge here was after paddling was portaging down the spillway to the water in the dark. It is amazing how things that are so simple in the sunlight can be so challenging at night.

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