beautiful day, i'm lucky to be able to spend so much time doing what i want.
"training" at French Creek east, to try and wrap my head around the 1:15 map and get a sense of the place since i've never been there. tried an orange course from 4/06, but did not manage to come anywhere near finishing.
http://www.dvoa.org/cgi/gadget/reitti.cgi?act=map&...
went very slow just trying to read the map. got 1,2,3 but in order to get 3 i had to go way back to a trail b/c i did not have confidence that i knew where i was on the map. on way to 4 i twisted my ankle (although i did successfully navigate through woods on a bearing.) decided to just trail walk and look at map for the rest of the way, got 8 on way back too. i may have to do the yellow for FCE coming up. maybe i'll try going back one more time before then...is that kosher?
oh, there were a lot of forest fires there recently and there are downed trees and branches all over the woods.