Training Log Archive: mikeminium

ARDF 80m practice at England-Idlewild. Set by cedarcreek.

Event: OCIN - OLOU Sprint Challenge (Stage One) - Miami University
 

putting out the SI control units for OCIN / OLOU sprint.

Sprint Challenge - course 1

Sprint challenge - Course 2

ARDF practice at Miami Natural Areas. Course set by K4BRI.

C • K4BRI 3

picking up one ARDF radio control.

OCIN_MUCQ_Aug_2015_Course 1 - Splits

OCIN_MUCQ_Aug_2015_Course 2 - Splits

setting controls at Miami Central Quad

Miami Whitewater

9 holes golf at Neumann.

I figured it would be interesting to count changes from a session of map updating. So I kept a little tally of changes as I drafted them. From the mapping last Thursday at MWW (a little over 3 hours of fieldwork), I spent about 2 hours working in OCAD. It's a little hard to quantify some changes, such as edits to vegetation or trails, but I came up with a number - I made approximately 121 edits to the map. The vast majority were rootstocks (delete / add / move) (44), vegetation adjustments (30) and adjustments to a new horse trail (most of the trail had previously been roughly drawn in) (23). Other changes included a few adjustments to topographic features (1 new depression, 1 new knoll, a few tweaks to contours and ditches), a few cultural features, and an adjustment to the edges of a marshy area.

To Miami Univ

Updating Central Quad map, checked the final few control locations, plus many more general map updates.

Return from Miami U.

Miami Univ Central Quad. Lots of updates.

Note: drafting time a little over 2 hours. Not including adjustments to courses and planned control locations.

Hopewell Cultural Center Nat'l Historic Park. Guided tour by Joe Ratermann (he's working there as an NPS interpretive ranger). With Aragorn, Mintore, Skyler and Jordan. And then the boys got their chance to try throwing atlatls. Look out down range!

C • atlatls 10

C • Hopewell 6

ARDF practice - Hueston Woods Mountain Bike Area.

Event: OLOU Bike and/or Foot 2 or 4 Hour Score O
 

Event: Green Corn Moon Rogaine
 

Green Corn Moon day/night 6 hour rogaine at Great Seal State Park. Very hilly.

Event: WOC 2015 & Scottish 6 days
 

checking controls at Butler County (Ohio) Fair. Skyler and Jordan put them out, and all were ok except that Jordan hadn't checked descriptions and one had to be moved a couple meters from a small building to an adjacent tree.

While hanging the OUSA banner from the metal roof supports of the barn where we were set up, some little rust shards fell in my face - one got in an eye. Attempted to wash it out with tap water, then the local EMT's tried to flush it out with a squirt bottle of saline, but no luck. So I ended up having to go off to the eye doctor and leave the boys in charge for a couple hours - they did great until I got back - none the worse for wear. Eye seems good - still a bit dilated and watery, but still planning to do the GCM 6 hour day-night rogaine Sat evening.

We got quite a few young participants; I hope that a few will come back for regular events and TROL season.

Goals for next year: 1. Arrange to stay open later in the evening (there were still a lot of people coming in). 2. Arrange to have a competitive course for fair awards / ribbons (and all of the fair award winners get listed in the local paper, so that would be good for promo too), in addition to having the educational / recreational exhibit and demo course. 3. Maybe print maps at a smaller scale. I got two 1:5000 scale maps on each 8.5 by 11 sheet, which saved printing costs, but I think a more blown-up version would be good for demo course and explanation of the map. Competition could still be at 5000.

Updating Miami Whitewater. Quite a few minor adjustments, most old rootstocks are getting eliminated and a few new ones are getting added. Lots of changes to white and light green areas, so far a bit more going from green to white than the other way.

C • good to hear! 2