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Friday Sep 4, 2020 #
11 AM
Walking warm up/down 14:12 0.93 km (15:15 / km) +78m 10:46 / km
ahr:117 max:147 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Hike up the hill towards start of the Adv 2 Shickshinny course. Great weather (just a bit on the warm side), upper 70s and blue sky.
Orienteering (score-O) 2:19:55 **** 6.97 km (20:05 / km) +187m 17:43 / km
ahr:117 max:156 spiked:15/18c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Shickshinny UsynligO Adv 2 course (nominally 6.7 km, a bit long for me), figuring I'd switch to Score O at some point near the end. Well I switched after 11 because I saw no need to drop 2+ contours down a steep hill to a cliff only to climb back up again. I did the route choice to 12's attackpoint, then continued to 13 from there.
I'd been to #1 on Adv 1 (#14) so knew what it looked like, though I was approaching from a different direction. #2 might have been tricky but the area either side of the trail is wide open visibly, and I could see a likely candidate (Greg might consider changing the eastern cup depression to a similar hill/pit combo, as that's what I saw first, and they're visually very similar; the eastern pit is SW of the hill instead of W).
Back to the trail to #3, where I saw a large black snake slithering off the trail into the fallen leaves (it disappeared very quickly!). All black, between 3-4' long. Missed a turn when the "main" trail continued SW instead of NW but caught myself.
Near #7 I encountered a cup depression that wasn't on the map and asked UsynligO for a distance/direction hint...turns out I wasn't far away, just over 20m.
On the way to #10 I thought I was in the right reentrant, but needed to go farther downhill (another hint used here).
On the line between #12-13, in the neat rocky cliffy area, I saw a notable rock feature which was really three large boulders forming an open-ended cave. Pic later, maybe (it's located where the red dot/waypoint is on my Garmin track).
To #15, I was standing on a trail when the tone played, though the circle barely touches a trail...
I know I stopped at least four times to retie my O shoes. I use a knot that withstands most O courses unless there's a LOT of blueberry (or other low, stiff vegetation.
#18 was in an area that had tricked me before; the trail/cliff mapping is not what I envision. Spent a little time looking in the wrong place, then continued on (I was in Score O mode) when I found the trail I thought I'd hit earlier, and decided to get #18. #19 was just down the trail. The large blob of black near #19 is actually a foundation and ruin (almost ground level on SW end, two walls with doorways on SW and NE ends, but no walls on the other two sides, and a large stone foundation/cliff on the downhill end.
Then I tried to angle for #20 but got pushed way off line by the laurel and blueberries, ending up near the trail back to finish, so I headed there instead. Glen had done the Adv 1 course, and then gone to check out some of the last few Adv 2 controls he'd skipped on our earlier visit, and was at the finish when I got there, so we walked back to the car together. :-)
Another excellent outing on another beautiful day. I'm so glad GregA has made these maps/courses available to us, despite being a ways from the main DVOA center.
I'd been to #1 on Adv 1 (#14) so knew what it looked like, though I was approaching from a different direction. #2 might have been tricky but the area either side of the trail is wide open visibly, and I could see a likely candidate (Greg might consider changing the eastern cup depression to a similar hill/pit combo, as that's what I saw first, and they're visually very similar; the eastern pit is SW of the hill instead of W).
Back to the trail to #3, where I saw a large black snake slithering off the trail into the fallen leaves (it disappeared very quickly!). All black, between 3-4' long. Missed a turn when the "main" trail continued SW instead of NW but caught myself.
Near #7 I encountered a cup depression that wasn't on the map and asked UsynligO for a distance/direction hint...turns out I wasn't far away, just over 20m.
On the way to #10 I thought I was in the right reentrant, but needed to go farther downhill (another hint used here).
On the line between #12-13, in the neat rocky cliffy area, I saw a notable rock feature which was really three large boulders forming an open-ended cave. Pic later, maybe (it's located where the red dot/waypoint is on my Garmin track).
To #15, I was standing on a trail when the tone played, though the circle barely touches a trail...
I know I stopped at least four times to retie my O shoes. I use a knot that withstands most O courses unless there's a LOT of blueberry (or other low, stiff vegetation.
#18 was in an area that had tricked me before; the trail/cliff mapping is not what I envision. Spent a little time looking in the wrong place, then continued on (I was in Score O mode) when I found the trail I thought I'd hit earlier, and decided to get #18. #19 was just down the trail. The large blob of black near #19 is actually a foundation and ruin (almost ground level on SW end, two walls with doorways on SW and NE ends, but no walls on the other two sides, and a large stone foundation/cliff on the downhill end.
Then I tried to angle for #20 but got pushed way off line by the laurel and blueberries, ending up near the trail back to finish, so I headed there instead. Glen had done the Adv 1 course, and then gone to check out some of the last few Adv 2 controls he'd skipped on our earlier visit, and was at the finish when I got there, so we walked back to the car together. :-)
Another excellent outing on another beautiful day. I'm so glad GregA has made these maps/courses available to us, despite being a ways from the main DVOA center.
2 PM
Walking warm up/down 10:00 0.58 km (17:13 / km)
ahr:100 max:149 shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
From finish back to car, finding Glen along the way.