Training Log Archive: Bash

While testing the Wilderness Traverse course with Bob ten days ago, my GPS tracker detached from my pack somehow. I noticed it missing right away and we searched the area where I thought it had fallen. If you have to lose something, this is a good choice since it broadcasts its location to a map. However, when I went home, I saw that it hadn't tracked since the moment it went missing. I figured it must be face down or waterlogged. I started looking at the new models at MEC - much lighter but $500+ including tax.

I checked the tracker map again a few days later and saw that it had started tracking again 32 hours after I dropped it. It continued tracking in the same location for 27 hours then said its battery was critically low and shut down. This wasn't a location we had searched thoroughly and I love a good mystery so I asked Coach LD to go up there with me today. I figured our chances of success were about 10% since I'd dropped it on a trail where someone else might have found it in the past week.

The fastest way to get to that spot was a bushwhack from a road. When we got to the area, I said, "I was standing just over there." I walked over, looked down and there it was. Boom - less than 60 seconds!



Unbelievable! I was getting ready for some kind of grid search since there was lots of low vegetation.



We took an efficient route in but on the way out, we took a more adventurous route around some wetlands. The forest was beautiful! Trekking time includes a long scenery break because why not?

Since we found the tracker so quickly, we had time to spare so we went for a short paddle and hike on our way home. Thank you for the great picnic lunch, Coach LD!



We noticed that some leaves are starting to change.

Happy 22nd Anniversary, 'Bent!





Photo credit: Veinbuster (thank you!)

Parked at Coolihan's Sideroad and ran south and north in Glen Haffy, mostly on the Bruce Trail. I added some gravel road hills.

Jamieson Hatt will attempt to set a Bruce Trail FKT starting on Sept. 11 at 5 a.m. in Tobermory. There is a Facebook group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/236098290546890/

And a GPS tracking link.
https://share.garmin.com/JamiesonHatt

AdventureDog and I did a short Tour de Palgrave West. I love this cooler weather! We met an unfamiliar trail runner with an unleashed dog who doesn't like other dogs, according to his owner. Hmm, maybe a leash would be good then.

Foothab and some lunges, squats and step-ups. Finally getting back to it.

Now that Mom is set up in her new place, I was able to devote 5 hours to the Orienteering Ontario Archives project today. There is a pile of boxes in our garage a little smaller than 2 m X 1 m X 1 m - and that's not all. The rest of the boxes are at Mick and Laura's house.

There are some fascinating finds including handwritten letters from Hammer and Eugene looking for student mapper jobs, and a detailed note from Griz about national team selection. There is much that should have been discarded a couple of decades ago. Unfortunately, the boxes were not stored carefully so I feel like I need to wear a hazmat suit and work outdoors because of all the mildew and rodent droppings. It's going to be a loooong haul and I may not get to put my car in the garage this winter!

'Bent and I ran the Track and Tower trail. There were thunderstorms last night so the trail was very wet but we had occasional glimpses of sunshine. There were a number of slick boardwalks and wooden staircases that tested the grippiness of our shoe treads. Around the halfway point was one of the nicest views in Algonquin Park.