Orienteering (Field Checking) 2:45:00 [3] 2.5 mi (1:06:00 / mi)
slept:6.0 weight:184lbs
Lake Needwood, MD. I pretty much completed field checking the west side of Lake Needwood. Perhaps one day I'll go up the Crab Branch area that connects to it but it's fairly narrow. Most of the day today was in greener areas. I did cover a large rough open area with some mappable trees. I plotted them from the aerial photos of the area and found that several of them had recently been cut. I suppose the park is trying to keep it open with smallish trees so that the the deer have plenty to eat. There were plenty of deer droppings there. There was construction in the lake bed along Needwood Dr.--this is probably the reason for the water being so low. It was a fairly cold though not breezy day for field checking--the day had a high of 26 F but was colder while I was out. I was dressed well so I felt fine.
