Discussion: Nice job
in: Newt; Newt > 2021-02-27
Feb 28, 2021 5:11 PM
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Green course was fun. Overall, I think you did an excellent job. It is always great to have new course setters, and a great experience for improving your orienteering skills.
Everything seemed properly placed, with the possible exception that a lot of people thought 69 (reentrant) was a bit higher up the hill. Hard to be sure; the indistinct trail below it may not be perfectly mapped. I found the (very small) boulder to the SE of the control, but the fallen trees that had created a very thick area between it and the control (could have been remapped as dark green) made it impossible to keep a straight line through there... I'd have to go back and spend some time pretty carefully checking to say what if any problem there was.
Everything seemed properly placed, with the possible exception that a lot of people thought 69 (reentrant) was a bit higher up the hill. Hard to be sure; the indistinct trail below it may not be perfectly mapped. I found the (very small) boulder to the SE of the control, but the fallen trees that had created a very thick area between it and the control (could have been remapped as dark green) made it impossible to keep a straight line through there... I'd have to go back and spend some time pretty carefully checking to say what if any problem there was.
Mar 1, 2021 2:10 AM
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Newt:
I definitely did a poor job vetting all the vegetation changes. I know Pat mentioned all the fallen logs around 61 (i think) and mapping that a darker green. I was really great learning the skeleton of O.
Mar 1, 2021 3:40 AM
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It is really hard and time consuming to get all the vegetation changes. Well beyond what is expected for a local meet. I tend to mark down changes I notice when course setting. For example I might have noticed when leaving 69 that I couldn't go directly toward 62, and taken a few minutes to roughly put a blob of dark green on the map. But you can't possibly put in the many hours of field work for a complete map update, so you try to just get what you notice that affects your particular courses / controls. Our club does one of the most thorough jobs of keeping maps updated of any club around - many clubs just keep using the same 5 or 10 year old map without updates and over time the differences become more and more impactful, until it eventually comes time to re-do the whole map.
Mar 1, 2021 4:26 AM
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First off, AWESOME that you did this, and actually try and appease the haters with feedback:)
Second of all.....wait, you think you can accurately map vegetation? This must not be Washington:)
Third: Great job on the race. You obviously have a LOT of natural skill. All the places I usually watch folks waste time, you do almost none of it. You roll through the checkpoints very well, indicating to me that fitness might be a next logical rung-up.
Bottom line: you served your community well my friend, and ran a good race! You da man.
Second of all.....wait, you think you can accurately map vegetation? This must not be Washington:)
Third: Great job on the race. You obviously have a LOT of natural skill. All the places I usually watch folks waste time, you do almost none of it. You roll through the checkpoints very well, indicating to me that fitness might be a next logical rung-up.
Bottom line: you served your community well my friend, and ran a good race! You da man.
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