Should I give up? A smallish sand dune area and an informal Blue course and no brain. What could go wrong? – What could go right??
I found number 1 without too much trouble though I felt a bit at odds with the map. Control 2 was OK (though Sue didn’t think so). It was the longer leg to number 3 where I realised that I could no longer read maps! I need to check with Sue’s as to whether by mistake they gave me the map of a different area. Nothing matched. I went up hills without contours, followed nice easy ways without dashed lines, got stuck in brambles without any green and somehow managed to find controls up to number 8.
For this leg I decided a straight line compass bearing but then found more hills, vegetation and path like things that weren’t on my piece of paper. (Map? What exactly is a map? What are all those squiggles?) Once I realised that I had precisely no idea where I was I guessed the best way home and trudged back towards the finish.
Ian found it easy.
Sue thought it was great.
Perhaps next time??
