Orienteering 1:09:41 [2] 2.32 mi (30:02 / mi) +63m 27:42 / mi
At Exeter TF, Oaklands section on my way back from boat work in Eliot. Parked off exit 10. Had a map dated spring,1996 - didn't think about that until feedback was not quite what I was expecting. I covered some legs from a long-ago UNO meet red course (scribble on back says "11/8/97, Northern NE Champs"). Heading back to parking, I encountered a subdivision and did my best to negotiate my way out. I passed quite a few houses before I could get back in the woods toward #9 - and by the time I finally figured out where I was, it was <200m from parking, so lost O well past #9. Interesting coincidence for me that I was baffled by #9 in '97 as I was today but for a different reason.
I seem to have forgotten that this is an excellent orienteering forest of detailed contours, abundant rock features and generally open hardwood forest floor. Perhaps it is time for an A meet day (or possibly 2) there. I can't recall if there was ever an A meet at ETF.
Came home to the last of a thunder and lightening storm, hail on the open ground in front of the house.