Orienteering 1:20:00 [0]
Met up with two professors who are working on the permanent course for campus. Helped them determine locations for controls and what features to map. The area they're using for the map is not the best- very flat, not a lot of distinguishable features; there is a trail going through the middle of the map but not really any other smaller trails to work with. I think this makes it a bit hard to make an effective beginner course. Also, the area they're mapping is long and narrow. There's a river on one side and a property boundary on the other, so in some spots you're very limited to where you can put controls. I feel like there are some spots where there is enough land to put a control, but there aren't enough navigable features to make a good course. In a addition to all that stuff, the vegetation boundaries in a lot of areas are super sketchy. Maybe I just need to be more open minded. Would love to have more help with the whole mapping thing since i'm not the most qualified person... well maybe at SLU I am. Don't want to mislead the good people of St. Lawrence. Any volunteers??? Oh boy this is going to be a fun project.