Training Log Archive: ernst

NEOC meet at Upton State Forest. Nicely situated on the way to the BG. Came with Jim down from NH. Still intermittent showers - that front was supposed to be out by early morning. Fun course. The area is a bit limited for advanced courses due to the many linear features (stone walls and streams), and yet it was confusing. The rather bland contours made it difficult to keep the line especially since I was too casual in the compass use, so I drifted off the map out of 2 in the NE corner, bumping into a trail, but everything seem to be off by about 90 degrees.
Eventually relocated. Another slight mistake to 5 (ran over hill on the westerly trail, but knew exactly what I did. Then going into 6, I ran N along stream to find a good crossing, but then ignored that I had corrected by 20 m, so mistakenly took the 2 boulders to be the S pair. All in all lost about 8 minutes. Light and steady jogging otherwise on the day before the BG.