Quote Originally Posted by ba-ba View Post
With the predominance of 're-entrants' it was definitely a navigation trial, with plenty of route choice joined by tricky, technical terrain in the area surrounding the control. Had there been clag I dare say some would still out there.
I can't imagine how difficult this route would have been in clag. I think I'd still be lost in Eskdale.

Bad luck on control #9. Would have been great to see the Mountain Trial decided by a matter of seconds!

Looking again at the map, the eastern route around Blisco to #9 looks tempting (swapping a tricky contour for about 100m climb). Jack Wright (3rd) went that way and nailed it, but how would you know when/where to descend to be sure of being between the correct streams to hit the control?