levitin's comments - by leg
| 1. |
Bad route choice | does not include 3:08 map copy time. S of the parking lot, to path crossing, W of wall but above marshes, attacked off the distinctive spur. |
| 2. |
Read map too late | overshot to R, came back from wall corner. |
| 3. | Time Lost: 08:00 | Major blunder. Confused parallel features and wandered around the borrow pit for a few minutes before relocating. Failed to find the E-W path leading to the little clearing from the large cleared area, so left to the south and circled in along the stone wall. |
| 4. | Time Lost: 01:30 | crossed the stream on a bridge, through the open field, attacked from the road SE of the boulder cluster, got one knoll too high. |
| 5. | Straight, ticking off the wall bends and corners. | |
| 6. | Straight. | |
| 7. | Time Lost: 13:00 | First, spent 4:47 going to the car to get a 2nd layer. Then, took the path, went left at the Y, thinking I would reuse the 8-7-8 terrain. Crossed the 1st stream S of the stone wall, ID'd the 2 distinct trees, attacked off the 2nd and missed. Flailed around a bit, noticed the stream did not match the map, bailed to the ridge line, but couldn't fix position. Eventually bailed S to the path and attacked from the south, ticking off the boulders 300m S of the plotted boulder. From the last boulder, it was about 100m by approx pace count vs. perhaps 175m expected. Aargh. |
| 8. | Past the distinct tree, N of stone wall, to path. | |
| 9. | Time Lost: 00:30 | contoured W below the laurel. Overshot the reentrant by 25m. |
| 10. | contoured SE. Cut just N of the tiny oval of laurel to the southern tip of the large laurel patch. | |
| 11. | Time Lost: 01:00 | S to stream, then got a bit out of contact going uphill through the laurel. relocated at the path jct, from there, over the knoll, past the distinct tree, and in. |
| 12. | Time Lost: 02:00 | WNW to road, turned left at the clearing, ran down the path looking for the bend. Didn't like the map. Jumped off the path when I recognized that I was going down a spur, relocated off the E-W wall, and came in from there. |
| 13. | NE to trail, Samantha coming in, have to be quick here to hold her off. Turned NE off the main road at the island, cut behind the camping area, followed the straight line. | |
| 14. | Managed to stay ahead of S. Phew. |
Total Time Lost - 00:26:00
| Suggested Exercises | |
|---|---|
| map reading | |
| route choice | |
| route planning | |
| map memory | |
| map contact | |