Training Log Archive: bl

Event: NEOC: Great Brook Farm NOD
 

Great Brook SP in Carlisle. Sunny, 60F or so (53F in house this am). Was going to do brown but no brown. Plan was to be accurate & steady. Mentally rusty; turned the 305 on & off a few times vs getting splits. Did not consciously note e-punch light/sound on a few controls which is not good. TP did the work. Nice work! Reminded what a neat place this is for multiple use.

1 uncertain, 30” - not a good AP
2 ok - nice woods in & ok out
3 left the path to early - some uncertainty - 15”
4 1/4000 proved useful but covered ground too fast, got a bit confused, got on trails I was not at all good w/ reloc - finally just went east, knew there was the large reentrant that way & relocated once there. 2’?
5 trails & some recognition fm 4
6 sloppy leaving field, some uncertainty but a flag appeared....
7 ok
8 left for cp where trail dips in reentrant, went straight to it in some green
9 straight
10 encountered jj
11 jj again tho we went different ways - maybe another red too?
12 back across dam - not sure about brook - finally N across green reentrant
13 lost a minute or so - not sure how - think I saw all the right trails/turns but relocated by a cp to the SSW in long depression - 1’
14 ok - been there before
15 along wall in field & to trail
16 went right to road - did not look inviting at all to go straight
17 & F straightforward
best time c 60’?

Found a cardboard cylinder on the car hood containing pencilled copy of Upton SF from the spring/summer of ’80. Not sure when I last saw it. Nice surprise, someone! Left with a NEOC membership application as well - about time.

Drove down Fiske as in memory lane. Ran into this turkey just about in front of the house. Would not get out of way...owned the road! Stopped to visit Pamela Sampson after nearly 20 years! She was home (now 83) - spent a very nice 30’ visiting & learning of her as well as Chris & Ian’s lives. She was amused to hear my age. Time is but the stream I go fishing in - but did not have time for Walden.

C • carboard tube 2

C • Old haunts 3

Green - Splits

Bright blue & brisk. Fall harbinger. To Turee Pond/SPS boathouse, stretched
there on the grass & back via half of XC route.

No hernia issue any more - just pick up effort/mileage and see what ITI
does. Nice weekend weather-wise in store.

Was waiting for new software updates to run their course & picked up the US ultralong champs map of Hueston Woods, Oxford OH, from late March (think it was) - an eternity ago. Time's passage takes on different flavors and shapes as it winds its way down. Can't always be sure what time it is....

G-maps
thought it was longer....

After work, on the dark side, light rain, dreary. Trail flooded by beaver industry which made for a nice diversion to Bog Meadow. NW cold front wx on the way to clear things up. Perhaps an O meet at Great Brook this Saturday.
QR practice

Mice 15

Slough & back, very still.

Had planned on BB but with Beth gone had pm dog chores. 3 years ago or so, they would have come along. Will have more time on the weekend anyway. Did the figure 8 loop in shade. Nice to be using the woods out back, "my" woods. Hadn't been on the figure 8 since maybe spring.

Misty-eyed autumn morning.

SPS XC, cool in shade. Don't think much of various infirmities which is key. Thinking positive is worth its weight in gold. Saw SPS football practicing...a fall key as is track a spring key. Calls back, at least one can mentally span the distance.

Need to keep track.

SPS after work, nice in shade. Try every day now and add a bit at a time.

Faraway series, photos from elsewhere, #76

RHODORA at Fatu Hiva, Marquesas Islands, 1987

Walk ashore in company and went ashore by myself later but too thick
vegetation to get anywhere. A large area of flattened ferns presumably due
to rain and winds of Irene & Lee as well as some very discouraging bush of
some type. Only open granite and high pines provided any possibility. No
road or proper path to find. Was adjacent to a quarry where "giants' play"
appears to have stopped abruptly. After a stunning sunset, a brilliant
moonrise - seemed so close I could appreciate its "sphereness", ie, 3D.

Giants' playtoys


A view of Hurricane Sound

Sailed to Hurricane Sound to meet Cabot & Heidi. Went ashore for a walk at
a Rockefeller dock as they knew the owners who were away. Heidi spotted a two-grave cemetery. One of the graves was that of Liv Heyerdahl, Thor Heyerdahl's first wife. Imagine, this woman born in Norway resting under a pine in an isolated setting on Vinalhaven (she subsequently married a James Rockefeller). Stirred up some poignant thoughts/recollections. Heyerdahl had sailed KON TIKI to Raroia in 1947. He and Liv spent a year or so on Fatu Hiva c. 1936 (had read both accounts). Beth and I had sailed into Raroia lagoon as well as to Fatu Hiva. Here, in peaceful obscurity, was a most coincidental link.

Liv's tombstone


On the marker:
Liv
b. Liten, Norway, 1916, d. 1969

Inscription (evidently written by her second and adoring husband) says
"warm as summer
vibrant as spring
now sheltered on your gentle isle
watch over all your
friends and strangers too
who pass your .... way here."

(died before 53rd b-day - irony to her
name)....

How far from Norway and Fatu Hiva.

Recall a Norwegian Memorial on the Olympic coast (state of Washington)
back in 1975 while hiking remembering wrecked sailors far from home long
ago. Summons "Home is the sailor, home from the sea. And the hunter home from the hill."