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Sunday Feb 23, 2020 #
8 AM
Orienteering 1:34:22 3.61 km (26:09 / km) +68m 23:55 / km
ahr:98 max:122 rhr:53 slept:7.0 weight:74.3kg
Phoenix O First Water Brown course Last event of the week long Southwestern O Event.
I have never had such difficulty reading a map before. Only found the first control, spent the next hour and 20 minutes looking for 2, 3, and 4, and finally gave up. I think the problem was that the map was really just a blown up USGS topo map with 20 feet contours. As a result, a lot of the smaller reentrants were not shown, and the ones mapped were much bigger and steeper than the map showed. Very frustrating. Also very little cultural objects. Only a couple of trails and a fence around the perimeter. No buildings, power lines, etc., so really difficult to reorient if lose contact with the map. I virtually never had contact after the first control.
The terrain was high desert, very open with a lot of cactus and shrub. Virtually no trees. Tremendous contour detail, which unfortunately was not shown on the map. If they remap the area with lidar, I would love to go back.
I have never had such difficulty reading a map before. Only found the first control, spent the next hour and 20 minutes looking for 2, 3, and 4, and finally gave up. I think the problem was that the map was really just a blown up USGS topo map with 20 feet contours. As a result, a lot of the smaller reentrants were not shown, and the ones mapped were much bigger and steeper than the map showed. Very frustrating. Also very little cultural objects. Only a couple of trails and a fence around the perimeter. No buildings, power lines, etc., so really difficult to reorient if lose contact with the map. I virtually never had contact after the first control.
The terrain was high desert, very open with a lot of cactus and shrub. Virtually no trees. Tremendous contour detail, which unfortunately was not shown on the map. If they remap the area with lidar, I would love to go back.