Training Log Archive: CleverSky

One of those sparkling days that looked like it would have been perfect for some recreational exercise. I instead spent the day on grassy hilltop in Roxbury, CT, getting not so much exercise, but getting a bit tired. Might have had more fun riding a bicycle in that area, but the hang gliding training that we did was at least interesting. And I saw some absolutely incredible foliage from 350 feet above it.

Hanging out at Ratlum Mountain tonight, seemingly by myself -- Charlie and Rhonda are in Texas, and I haven't seen Zack around tonight (he may have gone to sleep early). I looked for Uranus, which was not quite bright enough to make out with just my eyeglasses, but Charlie conveniently left a pair of binoculars on his desk, with which I was able to spot it quite clearly.

C • Zack 2

Burnt Mountain, vetting/waking up controls, and placing one. Slightly earlier than yesterday, so I brought a headlamp to read the map, which I used to various extents all the way through. Fumbled around some finding the last control on my map. Then on my way back, I encountered Steve, who was on his way up the trail. There were a couple of controls used both days, and one of them had inadvertantly been picked up yesterday afternoon, so he was on his way to replace it, but he handed it to me and sent me off to do it. No streamer, so I had to be careful to get the correct small cliff. When I got to the spot where I thought it belonged, I could see that the ground was scuffed up from people punching yesterday, so that gave me confidence.

Burnt Mountain, control retrieval. A bit sloppy going to the first control (on the very edge of my map), and also going to the third one, which I actually navigated right to, but didn't look on the other side of the knoll, and then wandered around a bunch trying to relocate. That one was a water stop, so I had to stop and tidy everything up. Nine water jugs, and six were still full. Although the watch was stiil claiming 100% charge when I started out, it in fact ran out of juice about 10 minutes before I was done (so I adjusted the time). I guess I got about 5.5 hours on the charge.