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Saturday Oct 29, 2011 #
Orienteering 3:38:00 [3] *** 12.2 km (17:52 / km)
spiked:17/20c
"course vetting" pontiac lake score o. Term used loosely because Rick is about a million times better at orienteering. Nice day to be in the woods.
Wednesday Oct 26, 2011 #
Erg rowing 45:00 [2]
Sunday Oct 23, 2011 #
Orienteering 2:20:00 [3] *** 10.0 km (14:00 / km)
spiked:12/15c
Deer Grove in the northwest Chicago 'burbs. I just walked it with my brother - his first time orienteering.
#1 was cake easy, but it set up a tough line to #2, which I blew. Was right on track after 80%, then veered south and go confused in the trails. Not a lot of features to get reoriented, so we wandered around for 20 minutes, eventually finding the attack point for #3 before backtracking and stumbling. The dark green wasn't very distinct, nor very tough - after punching #2 we exited through it.
#3 was easy, a ditch meeting a creek. Had to shoot a bearing to #4, was slightly off, but converging orienteers made it easy to spot.
#5 - very frustrating - gps log and our memory says we damn near stepped on the thing, but didn't see it (all flags hung below knee), so we checked a few ditches north before coming back down. 5 meters away, and 10 minutes lost? Doh!
Nice lines to 6 & 7 & 8- minor improvements possible, but not much to lose sleep over.
Veered a bit to #9, but it made the attack easy, so all is forgiven. Zig zagged a bit to #10, but no real trouble.
Never saw the marked trail to #11. Tried entering through light green that was impassible thorns, backtracked a bit, still never saw trail although we had to have crossed it. Jumped trails a bit to #12, but it was easy going so no real time lost.
#13 - I don't know how, but we managed to go perfectly up the trail, cut over, and arced right over top - I nearly stepped on it. If I had more moments of brilliance (or luck!), I would be decent.
#14 - that was indeed a very shallow reentrant. I would've found it, but a half dozen people made it easier. Passed them to #15, didn't see the right trail, so we accidentally took another trail, realized it, and corrected over the correct hill. Tried to sprint for the finish to win a leg, but dear brother was beat by this time, and the first half was 70 meters up a grade.
Good time had by all! And I even got my daughter home by bedtime.
In the spring I will see about visiting my family when they have a Saturday meet for easier logistics.
#1 was cake easy, but it set up a tough line to #2, which I blew. Was right on track after 80%, then veered south and go confused in the trails. Not a lot of features to get reoriented, so we wandered around for 20 minutes, eventually finding the attack point for #3 before backtracking and stumbling. The dark green wasn't very distinct, nor very tough - after punching #2 we exited through it.
#3 was easy, a ditch meeting a creek. Had to shoot a bearing to #4, was slightly off, but converging orienteers made it easy to spot.
#5 - very frustrating - gps log and our memory says we damn near stepped on the thing, but didn't see it (all flags hung below knee), so we checked a few ditches north before coming back down. 5 meters away, and 10 minutes lost? Doh!
Nice lines to 6 & 7 & 8- minor improvements possible, but not much to lose sleep over.
Veered a bit to #9, but it made the attack easy, so all is forgiven. Zig zagged a bit to #10, but no real trouble.
Never saw the marked trail to #11. Tried entering through light green that was impassible thorns, backtracked a bit, still never saw trail although we had to have crossed it. Jumped trails a bit to #12, but it was easy going so no real time lost.
#13 - I don't know how, but we managed to go perfectly up the trail, cut over, and arced right over top - I nearly stepped on it. If I had more moments of brilliance (or luck!), I would be decent.
#14 - that was indeed a very shallow reentrant. I would've found it, but a half dozen people made it easier. Passed them to #15, didn't see the right trail, so we accidentally took another trail, realized it, and corrected over the correct hill. Tried to sprint for the finish to win a leg, but dear brother was beat by this time, and the first half was 70 meters up a grade.
Good time had by all! And I even got my daughter home by bedtime.
In the spring I will see about visiting my family when they have a Saturday meet for easier logistics.