Xa, the switch from the 36hr format to 48 was quite a challenge. The weather this year was much cooler than last year, so that was very nice. As usual, the course was very long over some damn rugged terrain. My feet got destroyed. I’d planned to doctor them before I slept, but that didn’t work out for obvious reasons. I ended up with them soaked completely through and numb with the cold. Waited to treat them till the sun came up and I could dry them out. By the time I got to them, they were an absolute mess.

Aside from the physical discomfort we crushed the land nav. By our standards, at least. It was our best performance yet. Unfortunately, the poor timing of our planned bivy and the weather wrecked our plan to play the shooting games and we didn’t score nearly enough points to finish well in spite of out good performance in the nav. Some year we will put it all together and put in a non-embarrassing performance. Maybe.