Saturday Apr 22 |
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| Event: Blue Ridge Classic and Interscholastics
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 | Orienteering race 1:13:45 [4] 5 km (14:45 / km) +195m 12:21 / km | |
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| Green Y course day 1 at NC A-meet. Had to get out early so we could drive back. First out at apparently about 8:45, as I was back around 10, and on the road at 10:15 back to Asheville to pick up Rhonda and Zack, who elected to stay at the hotel and avoid the rain. Good navigation on first half, then lost it. Real trouble getting myself up hills. Obviously I need a lot of work. |
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Green Y - Splits |
Friday Apr 21 |
| Orienteering 25:09 [4] *** 2.1 km (11:59 / km) | |
| spiked:7/11c rhr:51 slept:8.0 |
| US Team Sprint at Dupont State Forest. Not a particularly fine effort. Got caught in the green, got off on some unmapped parallel features, lost a lot of time. Fun, though. Plenty wet. |
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Sprint - Splits |
Thursday Apr 20 |
| Kayak 1:00:00 [1] | |
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| Lazy day, paddling around at Lake Oolenoy in South Carolina for a bit. |
Wednesday Apr 19 |
| Hike 4:45:00 [3] 13.5 mi (21:06 / mi) | |
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| Woke up around 4 to lightning and thunder. Seemed to go away, and then came back fast with a lot of rain for an hour or so. This changed our plan of going down the Gunter's fork trail, which is only passable in dry weather, so back along the Mt Sterling Ridge trail to Pretty Hollow. At Pretty Hollow Gap, the second storm came through, with serious lightning, very high winds and hail. The wind was the scariest, bending the trees quite a bit Had planned to head to Walnut Bottom and camp one more night, but Zack was determined to hike out and set a merry pace. Tough on Rhonda's blister. Feet were pretty tired the last few miles. Zack was the horse all the way down, but flaked out at the car and slept most of the rest of the day. 40 pound packs will do that to a young whippersnapper. |
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| C • An old whippersnapper too, and... 3 |
Tuesday Apr 18 |
| Hike 3:30:00 [3] 6.0 mi (35:00 / mi) | |
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| Day 2 of the backpacking trip, from Mt Sterling to Laurel Gap shelter. Supposedly the flattest high mountain trail in the Smokies and did not disappoint. Lovely streamside picnic lunch shortly before getting to the shelter. Not feeling too lively though, so turned in fairly early. Zack was not amused about sharing the shelter, so we pitched our tent instead. |
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| A fine chorus of barred owls, starting in mid-afternoon, and then picking up again in the evening. Then late, after midnight, a short burst of coyote activity. |
Monday Apr 17 |
| Hike 6:00:00 [3] 7.0 mi (51:25 / mi) +1300m 20:16 / km | |
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| Backpacking in the Smokies with Rhonda and Zack. Day 1 from Big Creek to Mt. Sterling via Baxter Trail. Apparently most folks do the loop we chose in the opposite order. Very nicely maintained trail, but unrelievedly up. 6.2 miles, and then Zack and I had to descend about .4 miles for water and return, so Rhonda could make our supper. Met some nice folks from Illinois at the Mt Sterling campsite, and Zack took some great pictures from the fire tower. Quads and calves were in great distress most of the walk, but 13 hours in the tent seemed to restore me. |
Sunday Apr 16 |
| Hike 1:30:00 [1] 4.0 mi (22:30 / mi) | |
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| Up and back N on the Blue Ridge Parkway trail from the Folk Art Center in Asheville with Zack. |