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Saturday Oct 28, 2006 #
Walking 2:00:00 [1] ** 9.27 km (12:57 / km) +150m 11:59 / km
Spent about 5 hours with Dick Arnett and Gerald Yip walking around a park that Vladimir Zherdev is mapping for OCIN. We spent about 2 hours looking for Vladimir, and it's a lot harder than you'd think to find a guy wearing a orange safety vest in the woods.
After we found him, we were very careful not to distract him too much, particularly when he was pacecounting, which was most of the time. When I have mapped, which is perhaps 6 sessions for 2-6 hours each time, I am unsystematic, I stand looking at the terrain trying to decide how to map it, and I focus on one task, such as mapping a trail only, which means I'm going to have to come back multiple times to get other things done, like vegetation or contours.
Vladimir Z. is the diametrical opposite. He moves systematically, and quickly, he knows immediately what to draw, and he picks up a lot of the various colors at one pass.
Once, I was standing next to him at a complicated stream junction thinking, "Man, how would I draw *this*"; Vladimir just looked around, put his pencil to the mylar, and when I saw it, I thought, "Of course."
Probably the most surprising thing is his speed at drawing vegetation, although he did say he had trouble deciding how to map some of the vegetation in this park at first.
After we found him, we were very careful not to distract him too much, particularly when he was pacecounting, which was most of the time. When I have mapped, which is perhaps 6 sessions for 2-6 hours each time, I am unsystematic, I stand looking at the terrain trying to decide how to map it, and I focus on one task, such as mapping a trail only, which means I'm going to have to come back multiple times to get other things done, like vegetation or contours.
Vladimir Z. is the diametrical opposite. He moves systematically, and quickly, he knows immediately what to draw, and he picks up a lot of the various colors at one pass.
Once, I was standing next to him at a complicated stream junction thinking, "Man, how would I draw *this*"; Vladimir just looked around, put his pencil to the mylar, and when I saw it, I thought, "Of course."
Probably the most surprising thing is his speed at drawing vegetation, although he did say he had trouble deciding how to map some of the vegetation in this park at first.