Training Log Archive: JanetT

Event: CascadeOC Ultimate Orienteer #8: Middle
 

Event: WCOC Ratlum Mountain (Summer BBQ and Meeting)
 

Short Advanced course at Moses Lake Sand Dunes in WA. This is where the US Middle Champs were held in 2010 (edited...I did check). Nominally 4 km with 50m climb; both Garmin and AP underestimated the climb. I counted about 75 on the route I took.

Had a little difficulty getting into the map and didn't have a good plan for the route but figured it out on the way. Also didnt have a good plan to 4, or couldn't follow it trying to get ahead of Peg Davis. Didn't wear gaiters; their presence might have made my socks and shoes look less like hobbit feet when I finished from the dry-grass seeds... guess what I get to do now. :-O

results from 2010

Eagle Creek hike near Columbia Gorge in OR. We stopped at Multnomah Falls earlier in the day and it was raining, hard at times. We had thought of doing a hike near Horsetail Falls between there and Eagle Creek but it wouldn't have been fun in the pouring rain, so we stopped for coffee and lunch in Stevenson WA, across the Bridge of the Gods from Cascade Locks. By the time we got to Eagle Creek it wasn't raining as hard.

Garmin didn't do a good job of finding or staying locked in on satellites (in a canyon; didn't expect it to) and bounced around a bit. Uploaded track listed 558m of climb but we figure we may have done 150-175m. A surprising number of people out on such a rainy day, but most seemed prepared for the weather.

When we parked at the trailhead there were several cars around us with kayaks. On the way back from where we tuned around we saw maybe 8-10 guys carrying kayaks up the trail, where we assume they would put in at the lower punch bowl to head back downriver. I though it was difficult enough carrying nothing but a water bottle; narrow in places as it basically was cut into the side of the cliff.

Had dinner at Thunder Island Brewpub in Cascade Locks. Decent flight of beers. Last night's dinner was at one of Rogue Brewing's places, off Sandy Blvd. in Portland.

Event: DVOA Norristown State Hospital
 

Balance and lower back were among the things we focused on today.

Whitehall Parkway trails with a simple (hand-drawn) map printed off a township website. Hard to follow trails at some points but an interesting area with abandoned quarries (both wet and dry) and kilns/warehouses.

Climbed a steep trail using the handy rope at one point.

Already hot out, 83 when we started.