Sunday - day 2 - got the chills the night before and almost missed this one. Slow start and didn't have a great plan on route selection. At gun, thought either 3 or 2 would be a good starting point; opted for 2, got crowded at 1, so I skipped (why?) 1 figuring I might not finish the course and call it quits about 30 min. Anyway, Larry Rink missed the turn to go to 15, so Paul Clatterbuck and I headed north to 15, then Larry zoomed by us. I couldn't keep up with either of them and decided picking up 16 would save me the climb later (west to 16, then retraced steps to trail to 15, then almost missed the faint trail to get to 21. Area is very reminiscent of Camp Naish with faint trails, clusters of hue rocks broken off from outcrop lines; lots of campsite pads and small buildings. Mary Jones left 21 before I did on her way to 24. I was trying to slide up to 18, but ended up verring on to the trail to 24; then up to 18, 23, 14, 19, up 13, trail to 20, 8, 11, followed Kelly Sumner to 10, then 17, then on way to 22 saw the stupidity in getting 17 first, then fearing the darker green up from 17, took the trail by 10 and all the trails to 7. Then seeing I had a lot of time left to finish in under an hour, went to 9 (clearly botched the route choices), then 6, 5, 4, 3, and 1.
49:11. 3rd. OK for a sicky.
