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Sure, I knew it was going to be there and I had a good idea what it was going to be like and expected to walk a fair bit of it. It was more or less in line with what I expected. About half of it was technical / mtb stuff, most of the rest was rocky / gravelly double track, and there was a steep grassy hill which was a walk up for everyone.
I also think it was wrong to include it because it introduces additional and unnecessary hazards. Just because the roads are dangerous, and because they've done daft parcours before, doesn't make this one a good idea. There are potentially serious risks taking people without the right equipment onto remote off road tracks at high altitude with very limited food and water availability. When they have a compulsory section they have a duty of care, both legally and morally, and their "you signed up for it" defence would get shredded by a lawyer if anything bad did happen. On this point, they really don't know what they are doing.
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It's not like the parcours wasn't known about in advance. They've done exactly this in the past and if anything the parcours was probably safer than most of the roads they used.