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Saturday Sep 22, 2018 #
Event: 30 Years of Pond Mt
10 AM
Orienteering 2:12:24 7.72 km (17:08 / km) +485m 13:03 / km
ahr:121 max:176 spiked:6/11c slept:6.25 weight:165lbs shoes: 2017 Icebug Anima BUGrip
Pond Mountain Brown course. Rode out and back with BillD, most generous of him to drive, especially since I took an involuntary nap on the way back. Very nice meet. Nice course, Pond Mountain is awesome, and the access provided from the west is a wonderful gift. Saw lots of old friends there, and could easily have spent a few more hours visiting, but instead I wasted them with some outrageous walkabouts. Seems like the operative mode today was to drift way right on compass, and then to be unable to relocate.
1. Much too high, nothing looked right, tried to relocate down at the stream, but by then I was much too far, so lots of aimless wandering before I found a control at the stream, but still took two times relocating from there, since I hadn't been careful the first time about exactly where on the stream I was.
2. Easy, particularly because I had already found it once, so headed downhill to where I could see the control on the stream and then a beeline from there.
3. Again drifted high and right, picked up the trail but further up than I thought, and thought when dropping I would come to the stream, but instead came to another trail in the flatter area that was heading more or less east west, which really threw me, because I couldn't figure out where it could be, and couldn't figure out where the stream was. Perplexed, but kept going, nothing making any sense to me, until I ran into the steep downhill more or less along the line from 4 to 5. That jogged me awake and I headed S, rightly guessing that I was at the little high point between the reentrants with the charcoal platforms, past the distinctive spur with the cliff and more or less on compass until I drifted right again, then circled around the right knoll for a while until I looked uphill and happened to see the control.
4. Decided a hammer gel would help, so opened it up and started sucking on it, walking in generally the wrong direction for a while, at least until I got down to where I could see the rather substantial marsh I would have liked to have seen on the way to 3, and then walked with more of a sense of purpose from there, finishing the hammer gel just before getting to the contrrol.
5, 6 and 7 were all pretty nice work, right on line, reading the land well. Just what you'd like to do.
8. From 7 I knew there was a climb, but I way overdid it. Actually it was only a couple of lines and I did way more than that! Anyway got up way too high, knew I was too high, struggled to get down, kept looking around. When I finally found it much lower, it didn't look anything like I expected.
9. Was easy, moving well for me, but getting pretty tired. A young girl (now realize it was Bridget Hall) went by pretty fast, but just follow the field on the left and easy.
10. Dumb. Crossed the stonewall instead of going along it, costing me another minute or so and having to backtrack along the big cliff.
11. Easy, but sore footed.
The damage - some really knotted up calves. R achilles complaining a bit. Otherwise ok.
Rhonda had said she would wait for me to go for a walk with the dog, but luckily she was no longer in the mood when I got home.
1. Much too high, nothing looked right, tried to relocate down at the stream, but by then I was much too far, so lots of aimless wandering before I found a control at the stream, but still took two times relocating from there, since I hadn't been careful the first time about exactly where on the stream I was.
2. Easy, particularly because I had already found it once, so headed downhill to where I could see the control on the stream and then a beeline from there.
3. Again drifted high and right, picked up the trail but further up than I thought, and thought when dropping I would come to the stream, but instead came to another trail in the flatter area that was heading more or less east west, which really threw me, because I couldn't figure out where it could be, and couldn't figure out where the stream was. Perplexed, but kept going, nothing making any sense to me, until I ran into the steep downhill more or less along the line from 4 to 5. That jogged me awake and I headed S, rightly guessing that I was at the little high point between the reentrants with the charcoal platforms, past the distinctive spur with the cliff and more or less on compass until I drifted right again, then circled around the right knoll for a while until I looked uphill and happened to see the control.
4. Decided a hammer gel would help, so opened it up and started sucking on it, walking in generally the wrong direction for a while, at least until I got down to where I could see the rather substantial marsh I would have liked to have seen on the way to 3, and then walked with more of a sense of purpose from there, finishing the hammer gel just before getting to the contrrol.
5, 6 and 7 were all pretty nice work, right on line, reading the land well. Just what you'd like to do.
8. From 7 I knew there was a climb, but I way overdid it. Actually it was only a couple of lines and I did way more than that! Anyway got up way too high, knew I was too high, struggled to get down, kept looking around. When I finally found it much lower, it didn't look anything like I expected.
9. Was easy, moving well for me, but getting pretty tired. A young girl (now realize it was Bridget Hall) went by pretty fast, but just follow the field on the left and easy.
10. Dumb. Crossed the stonewall instead of going along it, costing me another minute or so and having to backtrack along the big cliff.
11. Easy, but sore footed.
The damage - some really knotted up calves. R achilles complaining a bit. Otherwise ok.
Rhonda had said she would wait for me to go for a walk with the dog, but luckily she was no longer in the mood when I got home.