MetrO League started for 2020 under a brilliant autumn sun in a totally remapped Yerambah Lagoon near the Georges River.
It was the first time we have been on this map since John Howard was prime minister (it was then an A5 at 1:10,000)! This time we were presented with A4 at 1:7500 for better reading, and found most of the old white areas to be now nearly all green.
The light green was navigable but many of the tracks washed out and a bit overgrown, which made for good route choice - although control 218 featured on many maps and tripped up a few people being off an indistinct track near some dark green.
We noted excellent performances by Uringa junior Kelvin Meng (2nd in Div 2), Julia Barbour (Big Foot, 2nd in Div 3) and SHOO primary schooler Rory Shedden tearing around to "win" the 2km Div 6 course in just 15 minutes.
Big Foot won all four matches, and Bennelong four of their five.
A big thank you to setter Vicki Wilmott, controller Kev Curby, organiser Ian Froude, mapper Arpad Kocsik (Garingal) and the IKO club.
Scores and Winsplits are on the ML web page.
Round 2 is on May 2 at Lansdowne. Please pre-enter.
