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Friday Nov 19, 2021 #
3 AM
Note
Got up at 3, checked on the eclipse a few times, then had the bright idea to just hang out in the hot tub and watch it. Got out there around 4. Pretty fine.
Alas, a 3rd straight day with vertigo in the morning. Fortunately, by the time I've been up for a while it subsides, and the hot tub in particular seems to be good for it.
Alas, a 3rd straight day with vertigo in the morning. Fortunately, by the time I've been up for a while it subsides, and the hot tub in particular seems to be good for it.
5 AM
Yoga 21:00 [3]
slept:6.25 weight:163.2lbs
12 PM
Orienteering 1:30:36 3.21 mi (28:13 / mi) +159m 24:28 / mi
ahr:97 max:139 shoes: 2019 Icebug Aurora BUGrip
Went down to Wooster Mtn with a green and a brown map, thinking I would probably do the green, but when I looked at the map, the 1:7500 looked so much friendlier than the 1:10000 that brown it was. And a good thing. I had a lot of trouble with the rocky footing, certainly any downhill I was very gingerly, and there were some pretty scary ones.
1. Started off in an embarrassing fashion. On compass to the stone wall, then along the wall, except when I came to the wall I stopped looking at the compass and just trotted along until I came to an unexpected marsh. Oops, wrong wall, 90 degree error. So that was probably 2 minutes right there.
2. Across the top of the hill, thinking I would come to the reentrant and work my way down there, but it was pretty thick and a jumble of little trails and I went down early. Really difficult picking my way down, saw the houses off to the left and knew I had to keep going. No difficulty finding the control once I got there.
3. Aimed for the trail junction and the trail going E, but got it wrong and got on the one going N, so cut over and eventually fought my way down to the trail I wanted, cut over before the stream and picked my way up the hill. No trouble finding the control once I was headed the right way.
4. Easy navigation, but a difficult descent from #3, and a long climb up the other side. Past the big rocky spur with its cliffs. Right to it.
5. This was the worst of the descents, and I ended up going across the reentrant way further down than I had intended. Came to a rocky knoll that was clearly not the right one, attempted to go NW to the right one, but somehow pushed myself NE, relocated again, still 100 M away from where I needed to be, finally decided to take the trail and that got me there, but then I was on top of the cliff so had to downclimb to get to the bag. Pretty awful.
6. W below the first set of cliffs to the big boulder, then up hill to the trail, around the marsh and up some more to the next trail, winding around to the junction SE of the control, and very easy from there, saw the stone wall to the N, the boulder in front of it and the flag, all from at least 100M away.
7. Down to the trail, past the marsh and along the stone wall. Got to the cliff and had to read the description. Oh. Western foot.
F Hugging the cliffs, L along the marsh, on the trail back east past the little bridge and then up along the E side of that marsh. Up the reentrant and then down the other side, saw it from a bit of a distance.
Beautiful open woods, long sight lines, but a bit too rocky and physically demanding for my current state of ability. Pretty happy not to have tried the green.
Map and route
1. Started off in an embarrassing fashion. On compass to the stone wall, then along the wall, except when I came to the wall I stopped looking at the compass and just trotted along until I came to an unexpected marsh. Oops, wrong wall, 90 degree error. So that was probably 2 minutes right there.
2. Across the top of the hill, thinking I would come to the reentrant and work my way down there, but it was pretty thick and a jumble of little trails and I went down early. Really difficult picking my way down, saw the houses off to the left and knew I had to keep going. No difficulty finding the control once I got there.
3. Aimed for the trail junction and the trail going E, but got it wrong and got on the one going N, so cut over and eventually fought my way down to the trail I wanted, cut over before the stream and picked my way up the hill. No trouble finding the control once I was headed the right way.
4. Easy navigation, but a difficult descent from #3, and a long climb up the other side. Past the big rocky spur with its cliffs. Right to it.
5. This was the worst of the descents, and I ended up going across the reentrant way further down than I had intended. Came to a rocky knoll that was clearly not the right one, attempted to go NW to the right one, but somehow pushed myself NE, relocated again, still 100 M away from where I needed to be, finally decided to take the trail and that got me there, but then I was on top of the cliff so had to downclimb to get to the bag. Pretty awful.
6. W below the first set of cliffs to the big boulder, then up hill to the trail, around the marsh and up some more to the next trail, winding around to the junction SE of the control, and very easy from there, saw the stone wall to the N, the boulder in front of it and the flag, all from at least 100M away.
7. Down to the trail, past the marsh and along the stone wall. Got to the cliff and had to read the description. Oh. Western foot.
F Hugging the cliffs, L along the marsh, on the trail back east past the little bridge and then up along the E side of that marsh. Up the reentrant and then down the other side, saw it from a bit of a distance.
Beautiful open woods, long sight lines, but a bit too rocky and physically demanding for my current state of ability. Pretty happy not to have tried the green.
Map and route
C • Wooster 12