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Friday Feb 14, 2020 #
8 AM
Note
The rogaine that I'm doing on Saturday is going to have live tracking. The tracking site is supposed to come online at 7 AM Saturday, and the event runs from 8 AM to 6 PM. If you're bored at any point on Saturday, you can check it out and see what I'm up to (and maybe more interestingly, how good the live tracking presentation is).
http://live.enabledtracking.com/Wildcat2020/
http://live.enabledtracking.com/Wildcat2020/
2 PM
hiking (trails) 39:28 [1] 3.31 km (11:56 / km) +66m 10:51 / km
shoes: Oboz Sawtooth II
Cooper's Rock State Forest (WV), out and back on the Advanced Ski Trail (which had only a dusting of snow, and was a little muddy). Drove to Bernie and Liisa'a house last night, then to Glen Jean, WV today, and this was a little break to stretch my legs. The signs said that there was a historic iron furnace up ahead, but it was further than I was interested in going.
The "base camp" for this 10-hour rogaine, Summit Bechtel Scout Reservation, is pretty posh. We're hanging out in a sort of cafeteria that looks like an alpine ski lodge, and it's connected to the cabin rooms or whatever they're called, that are like pretty nice dorm rooms (albeit with six bunks, but we're only two to a room). Security getting in was like a military base (I was wondering if it was a military base), and there's free wifi. It appears to be an amazingly extensive place, far more than I ever dreamed of for a "scout camp".
So this is West Virginia, the most mysterious state in the USA. You never meet anybody from here, and nobody seems to have ever been here (at least, not deeper in than about 10 miles from the border). You hardly ever even see WV license plates. But I drove right through the heart of the place, from Morgantown to Glen Jean. It looks about like you'd expect, pretty lumpy topographically, lots of hillsides that show signs of having been strip mined at some point, fairly run down in terms of the housing, and quite a few places you drive by that have trios of crucifixes. We'll see tomorrow how it is for orienteering.
The "base camp" for this 10-hour rogaine, Summit Bechtel Scout Reservation, is pretty posh. We're hanging out in a sort of cafeteria that looks like an alpine ski lodge, and it's connected to the cabin rooms or whatever they're called, that are like pretty nice dorm rooms (albeit with six bunks, but we're only two to a room). Security getting in was like a military base (I was wondering if it was a military base), and there's free wifi. It appears to be an amazingly extensive place, far more than I ever dreamed of for a "scout camp".
So this is West Virginia, the most mysterious state in the USA. You never meet anybody from here, and nobody seems to have ever been here (at least, not deeper in than about 10 miles from the border). You hardly ever even see WV license plates. But I drove right through the heart of the place, from Morgantown to Glen Jean. It looks about like you'd expect, pretty lumpy topographically, lots of hillsides that show signs of having been strip mined at some point, fairly run down in terms of the housing, and quite a few places you drive by that have trios of crucifixes. We'll see tomorrow how it is for orienteering.