Orienteering (Field Checking) 6:09:02 9.71 mi (38:00 / mi) +253m35:10 / mi slept:8.0 weight:206lbs (injured)
Little Seneca Regional Park, MD. Trying to wrap-up the Hoyles Mill Conservation Park map before the leaves come out, I got north of Clopper Rd. and covered the park grounds up to the railroad tracks. I started from the SW end of Tattershall Pl. Most of these woods were great! Most of the ridges were wide open but had some very steep climbs. The flood plain was mostly wide open too. It had various dot knolls, ditches and depressions amongst meandering streams. I got to the NE side of Little Seneca Creek late in the day. The NE end of it became light green, then green. There were features and I even found a group of boulders but that area was junky. Some sort of commercial establishment had been dropping scraps off of a very steep embankment into the park. All of this is easily avoided by a course setter but it does cut down on areas that I thought might be useful. I got the area mapped. I was working past sunset. I still found a good crossing point for the creek on my return. It's really steep the last bit up to Tattershall Pl.
