Discussion: Reality ARDF

This is one of the best adventures I have ever read about orienteering, and may be death defying and weird enough to warrant some media attention.
Mountain lions, dying of thirst, incompetent workings with technical devices, a great story there!

"Dumb, dehydrated nerd running in woods gets eaten by big cat?"

Sounds good, you could make millions.

all you need is a car chase, a couple things blowing up, and a hot female actress.

This is one of the funniest things I have ever read. I am sorry that it wasn't actually funny while happening.

Every story I've ever read about ARDF has been like this. That is, absurdly funny :). Not that you guys don't have skill - you do, but it always seems like the person who runs randomly around the area the fastest finds the most controls and wins. Is it possible that a bayesian search (or even a grid) would be faster than actually trying to use the radios? Just carry a pointy stick for the mountain lions.

Certainly on the 2m day, I would have had much more success if I had run a Bayesian search - though the control setting was not what I expected. On the 80m day, the radio guided me quite directly.

It's also quite apparent that I lacked skill on Saturday, or at least that whatever skill I had was overcome by my total noobness.

I only just went back to read this. Absolutely legendary!

I read your log last night, and it made my day better. =)