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Saturday Sep 7, 2019 #
1 PM
Orienteering 52:05 [3] 3.4 km (15:19 / km)
UNO camping weekend. Went for Saturday, day and also the night O.
Fun to see some very old friends.
Brown went OK. Pretty much directly to the flags. Some uncertainty approaching 5,6,7 but kept on going and the flag was there in each case. It was a long haul around the west end of the pond for 6 and more green than the map indicated.
#8, went to the builder group first, initially seeing just one boulder. Distracted or helped by 2 women just ahead of me there.
Pauses or lack of certainty might have added to a minute lost total.
Brown
Garmin out to lunch for time being for whatever reason.
Fun to see some very old friends.
Brown went OK. Pretty much directly to the flags. Some uncertainty approaching 5,6,7 but kept on going and the flag was there in each case. It was a long haul around the west end of the pond for 6 and more green than the map indicated.
#8, went to the builder group first, initially seeing just one boulder. Distracted or helped by 2 women just ahead of me there.
Pauses or lack of certainty might have added to a minute lost total.
Brown
Garmin out to lunch for time being for whatever reason.
8 PM
Orienteering 1:02:18 [3] 3.4 mi (18:19 / mi)
Nite O, short version, 2.8k, 1/5 map. Always a light or an identifiable person all the way to just before 6. There were 2-3 lady Scandanavians talking but couldn’t understand. 1-4 was pretty much follow whomever was ahead but keep in touch with terrain as well.
Shortly after leaving 4, came upon the ride which was a good handrail for
some distance. There were the Scandinavian women just ahead and another passed. They went further on the ride than I had in mind. I saw a path/ride as a stone wall due to a boulder's being mapped right on it in a "strategic" place. Of course, I never spotted the non-existent wall. Meanwhile there were 4 lights ahead of me on the ride. They went and went and I was kicking myself for abandoning my plan. But then I came to the only stream (and they were quite beyond it), figured I had to be there and entered the woods into what proved to be a logged area about as mapped. There was a big knoll in the open but mapped more centrally. This one appeared be on the very edge of the woods, so low confidence. But a light was coming my way, which was Nancy. I asked her if she’d seen 5. She said words to the effect of 'just ahead' - which it was.
5>6 got mixed up by the invisible “wall” again. Saw Alar and Ernst and ?. Even asked them if they’d seen it. Again lost contact with the map on the NE going ride I'd been on, going opposite direction, but there was a light ahead, going my way. Probably Nancy. Caught up around a swampy area but couldn’t pinpoint it. I was always moving S by then and finally hit the road which I’d been considering doing. It was hard to relocate on the road. Nancy paused, dropped behind. I finally said “must be here” tho no definite point - just a wiggle in the road, and its beginning to descend. Contours went up (promising), mapped was a logged clearing which I couldn’t initially see. But once up, I noted some trees cut to ground. Eventually noted a very promising clearing in size and shape. Went on, land dropped and the point showed in my light a long distance away. Phew.
7 was S to road, up a very steep embankment where the stream entered a conduit and utilized some roadside boulders I’d seen earlier in the day as AP.
8 was straight to the Vampire awards noise and light.
Probably 5-7' lost hesitating and fumbling but not hopelessly.
Then home, left around 9:30. I had to check on Willow and granddaughter, Beth in CA.
Night O
Shortly after leaving 4, came upon the ride which was a good handrail for
some distance. There were the Scandinavian women just ahead and another passed. They went further on the ride than I had in mind. I saw a path/ride as a stone wall due to a boulder's being mapped right on it in a "strategic" place. Of course, I never spotted the non-existent wall. Meanwhile there were 4 lights ahead of me on the ride. They went and went and I was kicking myself for abandoning my plan. But then I came to the only stream (and they were quite beyond it), figured I had to be there and entered the woods into what proved to be a logged area about as mapped. There was a big knoll in the open but mapped more centrally. This one appeared be on the very edge of the woods, so low confidence. But a light was coming my way, which was Nancy. I asked her if she’d seen 5. She said words to the effect of 'just ahead' - which it was.
5>6 got mixed up by the invisible “wall” again. Saw Alar and Ernst and ?. Even asked them if they’d seen it. Again lost contact with the map on the NE going ride I'd been on, going opposite direction, but there was a light ahead, going my way. Probably Nancy. Caught up around a swampy area but couldn’t pinpoint it. I was always moving S by then and finally hit the road which I’d been considering doing. It was hard to relocate on the road. Nancy paused, dropped behind. I finally said “must be here” tho no definite point - just a wiggle in the road, and its beginning to descend. Contours went up (promising), mapped was a logged clearing which I couldn’t initially see. But once up, I noted some trees cut to ground. Eventually noted a very promising clearing in size and shape. Went on, land dropped and the point showed in my light a long distance away. Phew.
7 was S to road, up a very steep embankment where the stream entered a conduit and utilized some roadside boulders I’d seen earlier in the day as AP.
8 was straight to the Vampire awards noise and light.
Probably 5-7' lost hesitating and fumbling but not hopelessly.
Then home, left around 9:30. I had to check on Willow and granddaughter, Beth in CA.
Night O
Thursday Sep 5, 2019 #
Walking 50:00 [1]
With Willow at BHS around 4:30, alive with kids in all fall sports activities.
Tuesday Sep 3, 2019 #
Walking 35:00 [1]
After work - went to SPS to XC trail system, into the woods on the path, along it and back thru the woods to SFR and the car. Wearing work clothes but it worked.
Monday Sep 2, 2019 #
Walking 45:00 [1]
Walk with Willow, raining pretty hard after we started. A regular sized umbrella was too small. A gray, dreary Labor Day.
Sunday Sep 1, 2019 #
Kayaking 45:00 [1]
So called training but a big step of sorts. Haven't used the (2 person) kayak for reasons of size and my back & Beth's shoulder and earlier no roof rack for the higher car --- and other manufactured excuses.
Went to NHTI which has a nice boat ramp. We had Willow along which seemed tenuous (esp just before when she was running & bouncing by the ramp) but she did ok tho not sure I care to repeat. She needed to be quite still so as to not set up a 'tip oscillation'. Stayed near shore in the event. The area was conservation so the river's edge and woods behind were most attractive. Successful outing even if short.
Went to NHTI which has a nice boat ramp. We had Willow along which seemed tenuous (esp just before when she was running & bouncing by the ramp) but she did ok tho not sure I care to repeat. She needed to be quite still so as to not set up a 'tip oscillation'. Stayed near shore in the event. The area was conservation so the river's edge and woods behind were most attractive. Successful outing even if short.