Added photos from my Apr 11th hike at South Mountain (near Turtle Back Zoo).
12 PM
Orienteering race 1:18:10*** 6.44 km (12:09 / km) ahr:131 max:163 spiked:13/14c shoes: Inov8 ORoc280-B 2013-10
Green course at Batsto in NJ. Cloudy and low-mid 60s when we started around noon, with enough breeze to blow down the Finish sawhorse.
Overran 4 to left and didn't correct properly from trail. I bailed out to the bike trail once I didn't find 4, and thought I knew where I was when re-attacking, but my track shows my obvious error. If I hadn't crossed paths with Kathy Moss (again; she overshot #2) I would have wandered more and had to relocate again, losing even more time. Sheesh; I think this was at least a 6 minute error.
Okay through the rest of the course. It was nice to have the open patches of woods (there had been a fire the summer before which cleared out some of the low blueberry bushes) to run through.
Walking1:07:40 4.05 mi (16:42 / mi) +58m16:00 / mi ahr:107 max:148 shoes: 2019 Sauc Echelon7 8.5D
To the end of West Hopewell and back via the Curly Horse development. Lots of spring trees plants in bloom along the way, and grass being cut already in that development (ours just turned green within the past week).
Found a giant burr pod clump in one wet spot near the road that appears to be from a plant called bur-reed. And noticed a small evergreen growing out of a hollow spot on a (dying?) deciduous tree where a large branch used to be.