Monday, September 21, 2009
Blue Spruce Orienteering meet
Orienteering meet by Western Pennsylvania Orienteering Club near Ernest, PA (Indiana county).
Challenging 7.4 km course (Red), with 22 controls.
Lost two minutes locating control 2. Used corner of open rough clearing as reference, but could not find. Should have gone a bit further ahead.
Lost two minutes on initial route to control 3. Should have taken a faint trail slightly to the east of control 2, but instead, gravitated downwards towards NW to a clearing with gas tank, looks like i like clearings because (sometimes incorrectly) assume they are runnable. From there, found my way to the trail I should have taken.
Lost seven minutes on route to control 7. Once climbed the steep slope that took me on top of the ridge, and on the road, flat on top of the ridge, started running looking for the clearing used as a catching feature. Before the clearing, noticed the trail "Y" intersection and looked on the map, and saw it. Shortly after, found the clearing, as indicated in the map. BUT IT WAS THE WRONG "Y" trail intersection-Clearing combination. Incredibly, and coincidentally, there was a matching "Y" intersection followed by clearing just before (which i overshot). Only once in the woods looking for control 7, i noticed that the relief wasn't right (i expected flat, but was inclined instead) and started suspecting. Finally, after doing the route again, realized I was in the wrong place, and re-scanned the map, and realized I was on the wrong spot. Classic.
From 10 to 11, was all downhill. Fast run.
Blue Spruce Orienteering Fall 2009 Split Times
1 4:52
2 4:39
3 6:16
4 2:48
5 2:14
6 5:24
7 13:21
8 2:51
9 3:34
10 2:06
11 1:52
12 2:56
13 3:22
14 2:46
15 4:05
16 3:20
17 2:14
18 3:47
19 1:48
20 3:37
21 1:56
22 2:48
F 0:58
Challenging 7.4 km course (Red), with 22 controls.
Lost two minutes locating control 2. Used corner of open rough clearing as reference, but could not find. Should have gone a bit further ahead.
Lost two minutes on initial route to control 3. Should have taken a faint trail slightly to the east of control 2, but instead, gravitated downwards towards NW to a clearing with gas tank, looks like i like clearings because (sometimes incorrectly) assume they are runnable. From there, found my way to the trail I should have taken.
Lost seven minutes on route to control 7. Once climbed the steep slope that took me on top of the ridge, and on the road, flat on top of the ridge, started running looking for the clearing used as a catching feature. Before the clearing, noticed the trail "Y" intersection and looked on the map, and saw it. Shortly after, found the clearing, as indicated in the map. BUT IT WAS THE WRONG "Y" trail intersection-Clearing combination. Incredibly, and coincidentally, there was a matching "Y" intersection followed by clearing just before (which i overshot). Only once in the woods looking for control 7, i noticed that the relief wasn't right (i expected flat, but was inclined instead) and started suspecting. Finally, after doing the route again, realized I was in the wrong place, and re-scanned the map, and realized I was on the wrong spot. Classic.
From 10 to 11, was all downhill. Fast run.
Blue Spruce Orienteering Fall 2009 Split Times
1 4:52
2 4:39
3 6:16
4 2:48
5 2:14
6 5:24
7 13:21
8 2:51
9 3:34
10 2:06
11 1:52
12 2:56
13 3:22
14 2:46
15 4:05
16 3:20
17 2:14
18 3:47
19 1:48
20 3:37
21 1:56
22 2:48
F 0:58
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Deer Lakes Park Map
map of the county park by the Western Pennsylvania Orienteering Club, which will host an event on October 4, 2009, starting at the Anglers Shelter. Participants can start anytime from 11 AM to 2 PM.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Norton
Ron (Mill Run near Falling Water house), and Norm (city rat from Wilkinsburg), they bumped into each other in hillbilly land. One shipped lumber to the Kauffmans at their home, Falling Water. The other explored sewers. Same age. They understood each other pretty well and traded stories for a good 20 minutes. Notice the rope used as belt. "I don't understand why people buy new clothes. You wear them once, and they're already used".
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