Gimme started well and ended well. It was just the middle part where she got creative. The track starts in the center of the upper area of this picture and heads toward the walking/wall, then turns about 80º to the right. She did this leg well and found the article easily.
The trouble begins when she overshoots the corner and then angles 45º right (red dotted line). She goes a short bit and then makes a hard right turn and pulls forcefully to the article you see midway up on the left side (at the end of the red dotted line. While she did get back on the track at that point and worked flawlessly through to the end, this may not have been a qualifying track at a test. It most certainly would have earned us the dreaded-whistle if there was an article at the beginning of the third leg as there was on this track.What you can't see from this picture is the elevation and slope of terrain. The large light circle at the third turn is the highest point in the park and the ground slopes sharply down from it on all sides. Gimme's line of travel straight to the next article is working along the bottom of this slope to the article. Gimme is normally so keen on articles, I can only surmise what happened - thus I believe the slope made the article on the fourth leg smell stronger than the much closer article on the third leg.
This is a puzzle I surely want to do again, but have Nadine mark the turns.
BTW coming soon to a blog near you - our report for the 3-day TDX seminar with Sil Sanders and the Trainers to the Rescue group near Yamhill, Oregon. This was the same weekend as Snowmageddon 2019 in Western Washington. What a big surprise I came home to.
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