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Saturday Mar 9, 2013 #
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How are there enough days/weeks/month to ever field check a map? This is a route to check boulder heights....in just the northeast corner.
This won't even address vegetation updates, like possibly needing a little green striping north of the radio tower.
This won't even address vegetation updates, like possibly needing a little green striping north of the radio tower.
9 AM
Orienteering 1:51:40 [3] 5.33 mi (20:57 / mi) +173m 19:02 / mi
spiked:12/12c slept:9.0 shoes: INOV8 285
Very slow walking- foot broke through crust every step. Cut original route short to make lunch. Excellent terrain.
1 - no problem, easy to see the hill and then the saddle. Saw #2 hill on the way as I skirted private property
2 - interesting land shape; I didn't realize it until I got on the hill
3 - luckily found a trail to make the snow walking easier!
4 - hard to read the hill just west of the swamp, but you could get to the swamp anyway
5 - my most confused moment, hard to trust the $4 back up compass I had with me today. But it was still right. Just hard to read the flattish terrain until I finally got near the small hill west of the target ridge/hill
6 - woot, hoped I would find it, got it!
7 - trivial, just a path out
I now realized I had no chance, at 2 mph of snow hole punching, to do the whole thing, so I hoofed it up 4 mile to do the back half
14 - saw 15 on the way from the road. Even walking the road was good practice on understanding the topography. Woods were awesome and open in the first half; here they were a bit thicker
15 - nice hill climb
16 - second most confusing part. It's clear that flatter, more subtle terrain is not my strong suit
17 - bah, track shows high but I went to the low part of the depression :-)
18 - nice view
Dropped 19 for time as well to make lunch. Made new #19 the hill I walked over en route to the finish.
Sure, they were all orange-y, but it felt good. Wished I had snowshoes!
1 - no problem, easy to see the hill and then the saddle. Saw #2 hill on the way as I skirted private property
2 - interesting land shape; I didn't realize it until I got on the hill
3 - luckily found a trail to make the snow walking easier!
4 - hard to read the hill just west of the swamp, but you could get to the swamp anyway
5 - my most confused moment, hard to trust the $4 back up compass I had with me today. But it was still right. Just hard to read the flattish terrain until I finally got near the small hill west of the target ridge/hill
6 - woot, hoped I would find it, got it!
7 - trivial, just a path out
I now realized I had no chance, at 2 mph of snow hole punching, to do the whole thing, so I hoofed it up 4 mile to do the back half
14 - saw 15 on the way from the road. Even walking the road was good practice on understanding the topography. Woods were awesome and open in the first half; here they were a bit thicker
15 - nice hill climb
16 - second most confusing part. It's clear that flatter, more subtle terrain is not my strong suit
17 - bah, track shows high but I went to the low part of the depression :-)
18 - nice view
Dropped 19 for time as well to make lunch. Made new #19 the hill I walked over en route to the finish.
Sure, they were all orange-y, but it felt good. Wished I had snowshoes!
Friday Mar 8, 2013 #
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Plotted 1.5 dozen points around Canonsburg game area for tomorrow. Hopefully comparing with the MMBA map kept everything on state land. Similar travel time from the in laws, and it looks drier than Haymarsh. I hear streams can be deep.
On an unrelated note, for fun I messed around with "what if" for forest sprints at Huron Meadows, and it seems possible. A test case made for a 15c/2.3 km course, and there was a lot of terrain still available, so you could run concurrent unique courses between Hammel and the Huron, if you were going to say, have an A meet.
On an unrelated note, for fun I messed around with "what if" for forest sprints at Huron Meadows, and it seems possible. A test case made for a 15c/2.3 km course, and there was a lot of terrain still available, so you could run concurrent unique courses between Hammel and the Huron, if you were going to say, have an A meet.
Thursday Mar 7, 2013 #
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I need to watch Rocky IV to inspire me to get my crap together.
Tuesday Mar 5, 2013 #
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slept:5.5 weight:195.8lbs
I will have some free time Saturday near Big Rapids. Thinking of doing some nav training in that area, maybe Haymarsh? Hard to say how wet it would be - I did a barebones rogaine type thing there in my very formative years, so I never made it far from the start. USGS shows a lot of streams.
Monday Mar 4, 2013 #
9 PM
Erg rowing 2:05:00 [1]
Leon - The Professional. A few interruptions to keep laundry flowing.
Sunday Mar 3, 2013 #
1 PM
Orienteering 2:56:40 [1] *** 8.99 mi (19:39 / mi) +242m 18:08 / mi
spiked:6/10c slept:7.0 shoes: INOV8 285
PLRA streamer course: spoiler alerts below! You are warned.
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#1 - nice location. I got pushed a reentrant over, but the nice topography made that obvious and I corrected
#2 - panicked, checked an earlier depression, but then recognized the ridge and popped over into the wrong deep depression (unmapped?), but figured I was in the right area and popped over to the west one
#3 - awesome hiking over there, luckily was on the hill I thought. Great terrain for figuring out the map
#4 - got nervous, but luckily had followed the high ground correctly
#5 - more fantastic terrain, loved it. Small error by not realizing the marsh I hit was not the lower part, so I sniffed around north before realizing the western spur was south, so then I charged down
#6 - walked right to the right spot, but didn't see the streamers. Checked south, nope, passed by again, checked north, nope, came back...doh!
1-6 was my favorite part - all off trail, all great woods
#7 - the bee line is horrifying. I got pushed around quite a bit just trying to fight through. Also, I couldn't find the streamers, even after grabbing my phone and checking the clues. There are tracks; maybe the hunter removed it.
#8 - No troubles, took road since I already walked the ridge
#9 - missed the ridge, but when you have a road as a catch, not a big deal. I was losing concentration.
#10 - panicked into wrong depression, honestly got a bit lucky and found the right one. I was not in top form by them
Sprint finish to beat three hours.
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#1 - nice location. I got pushed a reentrant over, but the nice topography made that obvious and I corrected
#2 - panicked, checked an earlier depression, but then recognized the ridge and popped over into the wrong deep depression (unmapped?), but figured I was in the right area and popped over to the west one
#3 - awesome hiking over there, luckily was on the hill I thought. Great terrain for figuring out the map
#4 - got nervous, but luckily had followed the high ground correctly
#5 - more fantastic terrain, loved it. Small error by not realizing the marsh I hit was not the lower part, so I sniffed around north before realizing the western spur was south, so then I charged down
#6 - walked right to the right spot, but didn't see the streamers. Checked south, nope, passed by again, checked north, nope, came back...doh!
1-6 was my favorite part - all off trail, all great woods
#7 - the bee line is horrifying. I got pushed around quite a bit just trying to fight through. Also, I couldn't find the streamers, even after grabbing my phone and checking the clues. There are tracks; maybe the hunter removed it.
#8 - No troubles, took road since I already walked the ridge
#9 - missed the ridge, but when you have a road as a catch, not a big deal. I was losing concentration.
#10 - panicked into wrong depression, honestly got a bit lucky and found the right one. I was not in top form by them
Sprint finish to beat three hours.