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Sunday Jan 18, 2015 #
9 AM
Orienteering race 1:23:46 *** 5.62 km (14:54 / km) +176m 12:53 / km
ahr:146 max:173 14c shoes: Salomon Speedcross CS
Georgia Navigator Cup, Day 2, by GAOC, at Red Top Mountain State Park, set by Steve Houghton. Green Y, 5.2km, 190m.
1. Wimped out, took trail to trail crossing attackpoint. Eyeballed straight from the start to cut off a bit, but it looked slower than the trail.
2. Considered straight, but bailed wide right trail route. Left route had no good attackpoint I could see.
3. Just a wonderful, fun leg. Not difficult, but probably challenging for juniors.
4. Disappointed to see the flag so visible from one spur away.
5. Kinda sketchy area, but nice leg---strong linear feature takes you to control.
6. Fun, tricky. I thought it was easy, but I suspect juniors especially lost time here.
7. Longest leg. I would have preferred something longer. I bobbled at the first road-trail crossing, taking the SSW road for 20m or so. I basically went straight: NNW trail to bend, jump to clearing, cut line trail to bend in camp ground, bearing to control. I ended up very left here. 30-40m maybe. I have trouble believing there isn't a map distortion here. No real trouble, though.
8. First really high difficulty leg. Went left of the line a bit, picked up the stony bits, crossed the trail, couldn't verify the two boulders right of the line, but figured I couldn't be that far off. Hit the control exactly, though.
9. Looks too easy on paper, but it was a fun leg. Really good leg for juniors, IMO.
10. Nice leg, ruined by a flag on top the rock. It literally startled me. If this was for a yellow or orange leg, and just reused by BGRB, I'd understand it, but dang.
11. After the flag on top the rock on 10, this was a shock. I was in the reentrant with two other people, and no one had seen the flag yet. The other two went low, but I eyeballed the map and said, "No, it's over here", and it was tucked away right in front of me. There was a log between the flag and the bottom of the reentrant. I probably would have put at least half the flag higher than that log. Getting the flag "tucked away, but not hidden" is a real tricky thing. After I punched, one of the other two said, "I've been standing here five minutes!", but I don't think it was that long.
12. Just an A+ tricky leg. Nothing spectacular, but just perfect. The map and the ground was just in perfect alignment---Read the map---Read the ground. I would have tucked the flag away a bit more, unless it was used by yellow or orange. (But the leg, between the flags, was perfect.)
13. Best leg of the weekend. Subtle. Not too hilly. Well mapped. I got drawn a bit right at the end. Fun fun fun.
14. Good leg. I felt the map at the control was a bit off, but not by much.
A really fun weekend. I hope to make this an annual must-attend event.
1. Wimped out, took trail to trail crossing attackpoint. Eyeballed straight from the start to cut off a bit, but it looked slower than the trail.
2. Considered straight, but bailed wide right trail route. Left route had no good attackpoint I could see.
3. Just a wonderful, fun leg. Not difficult, but probably challenging for juniors.
4. Disappointed to see the flag so visible from one spur away.
5. Kinda sketchy area, but nice leg---strong linear feature takes you to control.
6. Fun, tricky. I thought it was easy, but I suspect juniors especially lost time here.
7. Longest leg. I would have preferred something longer. I bobbled at the first road-trail crossing, taking the SSW road for 20m or so. I basically went straight: NNW trail to bend, jump to clearing, cut line trail to bend in camp ground, bearing to control. I ended up very left here. 30-40m maybe. I have trouble believing there isn't a map distortion here. No real trouble, though.
8. First really high difficulty leg. Went left of the line a bit, picked up the stony bits, crossed the trail, couldn't verify the two boulders right of the line, but figured I couldn't be that far off. Hit the control exactly, though.
9. Looks too easy on paper, but it was a fun leg. Really good leg for juniors, IMO.
10. Nice leg, ruined by a flag on top the rock. It literally startled me. If this was for a yellow or orange leg, and just reused by BGRB, I'd understand it, but dang.
11. After the flag on top the rock on 10, this was a shock. I was in the reentrant with two other people, and no one had seen the flag yet. The other two went low, but I eyeballed the map and said, "No, it's over here", and it was tucked away right in front of me. There was a log between the flag and the bottom of the reentrant. I probably would have put at least half the flag higher than that log. Getting the flag "tucked away, but not hidden" is a real tricky thing. After I punched, one of the other two said, "I've been standing here five minutes!", but I don't think it was that long.
12. Just an A+ tricky leg. Nothing spectacular, but just perfect. The map and the ground was just in perfect alignment---Read the map---Read the ground. I would have tucked the flag away a bit more, unless it was used by yellow or orange. (But the leg, between the flags, was perfect.)
13. Best leg of the weekend. Subtle. Not too hilly. Well mapped. I got drawn a bit right at the end. Fun fun fun.
14. Good leg. I felt the map at the control was a bit off, but not by much.
A really fun weekend. I hope to make this an annual must-attend event.
1 PM
Walking 20:00 [1] 1.0 km (20:00 / km) +20m 18:11 / km
Lookout Mountain and Cravens House, near Chattanooga, Tennessee. (GPS track shows some driving.)
Ate, then searched a bit for Pat's phantom Civil War cemetery. Found one, but not the right one (look at the crosshair in the middle of the screen): http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=35.06079,-85.13087&z=15...
We were embarrassed that as we left, we saw this entrance gate, which all of us had not seen (wait for street view to load): http://goo.gl/maps/luCQK
Ate, then searched a bit for Pat's phantom Civil War cemetery. Found one, but not the right one (look at the crosshair in the middle of the screen): http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=35.06079,-85.13087&z=15...
We were embarrassed that as we left, we saw this entrance gate, which all of us had not seen (wait for street view to load): http://goo.gl/maps/luCQK