Orienteering (Field Checking) 3:21:07 [3] 6.82 mi (29:29 / mi) +262m 26:21 / mi
slept:8.0 weight:196lbs
Seneca State Park, MD. From Riffeford Rd., I went to 10 locations which Michael Dickey identified for map updates. This park seems to change quite a bit from year to year. This year there was a trail location, and the sewer line work in the Long Draught stream valley, which I'd mapped last year, is gone. So far at least, the beavers haven't changed things too much. I did find a few things on my own including a few boulders; I actually found some of them while setting out controls last year. With winter at its peak, the park is about as runnable as it gets. Only a heavy snow that melts would help mash down stuff more. I did run a bit from location to location. With it being in the 20s F and there being a wind, I had my winter coat on.
It'd been a while since I'd gone field checking and I was a bit out of practice. Getting ready, one of my printed sheets fell behind my printer so I didn't have it in the field--overlap with other pages, drawing what I saw, and memory helped. With gloves on, I kept dropping and then having to go back to find my pencil. I even forgot that I'd brought eye glasses so I started out without them. All of that was frustrating but I got into the swing of things eventually, covering a lot of ground in a relatively short time for field checking work.