Brown course at Huntington. Another mediocre navigation on my part. But I did find them all. I need to work on my distance perception on 1:7500 maps.
My route.Too short on 1. Angled n.e. from trail too early and came upon the utility corridor (road?) that I've been on lots of times in years past but hadn't this time took notice of on the map. When the realization struct, I cut n.w. straight to the control. That served me well on 5 (same control) as I repeated in my footsteps.
Too long on 2 going up the trail, not finding the trail coming in from the east, my intended signal to turn left. Walk says he went straight to 2 taking heed of the reentrant. Since my fiasco at Hurd with micro reentrants many among macro reentrants, I've hesitated putting my trust in such features. Need to rethink that.
3, 4, 5, and 6 just as planned.
7 did me in. Went too far. I was concentrating on keeping a straight path by compass, and by golly that went well. But when I spotted the wall, I mistook it for the wall back east by the other marsh and I kept going further. The flag was quite visible as I back tracked.
8 was bad. Reached the utility corridor (road?) one wall west of the wall I thought I was by. Crossing s. expecting to find a clear box of walls, I should have immediately retreated when the walls I saw were not as expected. Instead I headed s.e. straight into a really nasty nest of fallen trees and fell and rolled trying to cross over a stack of them, gashing my right shin. Didn't see the blood on my pant leg until back at the car. Relo'd to the north and executed my originally planned attack on 8.
Just a lot of muttering in self-chastisement as I slowly limped straight to 9.