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Friday Oct 23, 2009 #
Event: US Individual Champs 2009
Orienteering 1:15:00 [2]
After 8 hour drive and then frantically making cell phone calls to try to get a phone number I'd left on my desk of 'house care-takers' to open house, I got out for about 75 minutes of map hiking on Model Map with Fran. Verbal descriptions helped me focus on key features for the weekend. I ran no 'real' legs (due to time and to save legs) but I ran often ran ahead 50-150 m to get the feel.
Lessons:
I'm finally getting pretty comfortable with visual estimates of vertical changes - up and down. On moraine terrain, I usually underestimate the vertical.
Find and use saddles - great point features to check off! - I wasn't visualizing size of saddles very well.
"Hunters forts" (triangle of stacked 15 foot or so trees) are usually on high ground - helps in reading up vs. down on map.
Lessons:
I'm finally getting pretty comfortable with visual estimates of vertical changes - up and down. On moraine terrain, I usually underestimate the vertical.
Find and use saddles - great point features to check off! - I wasn't visualizing size of saddles very well.
"Hunters forts" (triangle of stacked 15 foot or so trees) are usually on high ground - helps in reading up vs. down on map.