Training Log Archive: Nadim

Arthur Pack Regional Park, Tuscon, AZ. The US Team setup a compass bearing training exercise in this very flat park. It was a good place for it since there was enough spotty rough vegetation on the map to make some obstacles. To keep on course, I went through greener areas than I otherwise might have chosen. The point of the exercise was to keep on track using primarily bearings. I didn't use the trails which sometimes might have been better to go on. I had trouble early. The exercise was made tougher by the use of orange and white streamers instead of actual control bags. I was often near Kesenya, Stanislav and one of his friends. They sometime drew me off my line and sometimes helped. It was quite fun. The mapping was rather good though I'd be more likely to map a lot of this light green rather than white. The saguaro catcus made good controls as well as good landmarks to read along the way; they were mapped as green boulders. Though my spike accuracy rate looks low, I was often very close. My GPS track of this looks rather odd for an O-course with mostly straight lines.