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Sunday Mar 9, 2014 #
Event: QOC Little Bennett
12 PM
Orienteering (Foot) 52:47 [4] *** 5.5 km (9:36 / km) +105m 8:46 / km
spiked:8/8c slept:8.0 weight:181.5lbs
QOC: Little Bennett Regional Park, MD. I wasn't sure what to expect today other than feeling tired from the trail marathon yesterday. I thought I might walk a Brown course. Before going to the start, I jogged in a circle and thought I was okay enough to try Green.
S-1 This variation of the classic starting leg at Little Bennett required crossing a flat campground then crossing a big reentrant, the going over the ridge on the other side I went fairly straight, checking off trail bends on my route along the way, but moving a bit to the right to get around some mapped and unmapped deadfall. I was glad that I could climb well after the marathon the previous day. It felt much easier than the ice yesterday and the terrain was mostly dry. I had to cut left a little more than expected on the attack. A couple of families going and coming away helped clue me in.
1-2 I thought I was running fairly straight over the ridge but I got pulled right by vegetation and the slope. Once over the ridge, I figured I was south of the control so I contoured over until I saw it.
2-3 I angled to the left, crossed the creek, got on the trail and took it around the spur. When it dropped to the bottom, I went fairly straight up. Someone was converging toward it from the right but I got there first.
3-4 I headed toward the road across the plateau and through the unmapped light green. Once on the road, I passed the trail intersections and attacked from just before a road bend. I expected the control to be on the center of the ridge but not seeing it, I pulled-up just before it, read my map and turned to descend right to it. Again, someone was coming up to it from the other direction.
4-5 I basically ran across the hillside, allowing myself to descend as I went wherever it was convenient, then came up the ditch-like reentrant at the end.
5-6 Doubting the fence to really be there, I ran left to go around it anyway. This took the steepness out the climb and kept me out the greener areas. At the double ditches I turned more toward the road and got there after getting through some more unmapped green. I used the road a little bit, then dropped to the right to cross a reentrant. I tried to minimize the descent to minimize the need to climb the ridge north of the control. I found an unmapped ruined fence running east-west. I had trouble relating the contours to my position and end up dropping a little, getting past the control, the turning left when I saw the field, to come to the control from the NW.
6-7 I was somewhat wishy-washy on my route choice. I started going slightly left of straight, the turned into the reentrant more, then got up the plateau a little more to the left again. To get through the unmapped light green there again (same place as leg 3-4) I used a deer trail. Finally at the road, I crossed it and the parallel trail. I dropped into the reentrant, staying on the right side. I apparently went almost due east to get onto the ridge because I had to use the trail at the top to go SW to the bend and the double cairns. Once around the green, I attacked and spiked it.
7-8 I didn't want to drop down 2 contours to go the long way around a 3 contour hill so I went south starting out. After the double-cairns, I crossed the stream and climbed to the trail intersection with the White course control. I figured I'd descend to the white woods from a bend but the green extended further north than mapped. I cut across anyway. Following the trail south along the stream until it climbed away from the stream, I crossed the creek. I closed-in on Greg Lennon who was running Red and paralleling the stream. We turned to go higher and he called out from behind that it was where a couple of guys were standing 80m away.
8-F The 2 guys were still at the control when I punched. As I left Greg told them to follow me. At least one did. I wanted to go SW so that I could get around the mapped green on the direct route. As I climbed I saw Dasa Merkova and Patti Mace. I noticed the green wasn't really there and that I was getting higher than needed. I cut right more sharply than optimal but it did get me around what was probably remnants of the old mapped deadfall. I finished strong, glad that my strength held up well.
S-1 This variation of the classic starting leg at Little Bennett required crossing a flat campground then crossing a big reentrant, the going over the ridge on the other side I went fairly straight, checking off trail bends on my route along the way, but moving a bit to the right to get around some mapped and unmapped deadfall. I was glad that I could climb well after the marathon the previous day. It felt much easier than the ice yesterday and the terrain was mostly dry. I had to cut left a little more than expected on the attack. A couple of families going and coming away helped clue me in.
1-2 I thought I was running fairly straight over the ridge but I got pulled right by vegetation and the slope. Once over the ridge, I figured I was south of the control so I contoured over until I saw it.
2-3 I angled to the left, crossed the creek, got on the trail and took it around the spur. When it dropped to the bottom, I went fairly straight up. Someone was converging toward it from the right but I got there first.
3-4 I headed toward the road across the plateau and through the unmapped light green. Once on the road, I passed the trail intersections and attacked from just before a road bend. I expected the control to be on the center of the ridge but not seeing it, I pulled-up just before it, read my map and turned to descend right to it. Again, someone was coming up to it from the other direction.
4-5 I basically ran across the hillside, allowing myself to descend as I went wherever it was convenient, then came up the ditch-like reentrant at the end.
5-6 Doubting the fence to really be there, I ran left to go around it anyway. This took the steepness out the climb and kept me out the greener areas. At the double ditches I turned more toward the road and got there after getting through some more unmapped green. I used the road a little bit, then dropped to the right to cross a reentrant. I tried to minimize the descent to minimize the need to climb the ridge north of the control. I found an unmapped ruined fence running east-west. I had trouble relating the contours to my position and end up dropping a little, getting past the control, the turning left when I saw the field, to come to the control from the NW.
6-7 I was somewhat wishy-washy on my route choice. I started going slightly left of straight, the turned into the reentrant more, then got up the plateau a little more to the left again. To get through the unmapped light green there again (same place as leg 3-4) I used a deer trail. Finally at the road, I crossed it and the parallel trail. I dropped into the reentrant, staying on the right side. I apparently went almost due east to get onto the ridge because I had to use the trail at the top to go SW to the bend and the double cairns. Once around the green, I attacked and spiked it.
7-8 I didn't want to drop down 2 contours to go the long way around a 3 contour hill so I went south starting out. After the double-cairns, I crossed the stream and climbed to the trail intersection with the White course control. I figured I'd descend to the white woods from a bend but the green extended further north than mapped. I cut across anyway. Following the trail south along the stream until it climbed away from the stream, I crossed the creek. I closed-in on Greg Lennon who was running Red and paralleling the stream. We turned to go higher and he called out from behind that it was where a couple of guys were standing 80m away.
8-F The 2 guys were still at the control when I punched. As I left Greg told them to follow me. At least one did. I wanted to go SW so that I could get around the mapped green on the direct route. As I climbed I saw Dasa Merkova and Patti Mace. I noticed the green wasn't really there and that I was getting higher than needed. I cut right more sharply than optimal but it did get me around what was probably remnants of the old mapped deadfall. I finished strong, glad that my strength held up well.