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Tuesday May 26, 2020 #
12 PM
Orienteering (virtual course) 1:41:23 *** 4.83 km (20:59 / km) +74m 19:30 / km
ahr:145 max:188 spiked:13/16c shoes: 2019 VJ Falcon 6.5 scot
Don't believe the HR numbers. I was wearing a HRM but walking most of the time.
It was on the warm side, upper 70s and sunny much of the time but not in the woods. The beeches have leafed out, making visibility more difficult than perhaps they were maybe 2-3 weeks ago.
Hickory Run Short Advanced Virtual course (3.9 km, 1:10000 map) designed by Greg A, while Glen did the longer one. We used both O-Range (on Forerunner) and UsynligO (on phone, carried in a waist pack). I personally was much happier with the phone app as I could adjust the volume so I could hear the tone(tune); the annunciator on my watch isn't very loud under normal conditions and I can't adjust it. In addition, UsynligO announced all of the controls, and O-Range missed at least two. If I were to do this again (and I might) I think I'd just use UsynligO and not bother with O-Range. I even had the watch fastened onto the chest strap of my Camelbak which is at least 10-12" closer to my ears than on my wrist.
Misses were largely due to drifting to the right of my bearing plus visibility on the first two (numbers 4 and 6; to #4 I actually relocated at a permanent course marker--mapped as a black O--about 80m west of the point...ooops); and misreading the area north of 11. I should have stuck to my original plan of heading to the road and attacking off the height of land, instead of getting drawn off by other ponds connected by streams. Because the app announced my arrival a bit before I actually reached some of them I didn't necessarily go to the precise location as mapped (like the opposite end of a marshy area or pond). I did see the feature for each one.
Otherwise I was pleased by my navigation if not my speed, and the ability to be able to read some of the subtle contour detail even in the light green woods. White woods were wonderful, and I only saw a few pieces of greenbrier, mostly close to roads.
Thanks, Greg!!
It was on the warm side, upper 70s and sunny much of the time but not in the woods. The beeches have leafed out, making visibility more difficult than perhaps they were maybe 2-3 weeks ago.
Hickory Run Short Advanced Virtual course (3.9 km, 1:10000 map) designed by Greg A, while Glen did the longer one. We used both O-Range (on Forerunner) and UsynligO (on phone, carried in a waist pack). I personally was much happier with the phone app as I could adjust the volume so I could hear the tone(tune); the annunciator on my watch isn't very loud under normal conditions and I can't adjust it. In addition, UsynligO announced all of the controls, and O-Range missed at least two. If I were to do this again (and I might) I think I'd just use UsynligO and not bother with O-Range. I even had the watch fastened onto the chest strap of my Camelbak which is at least 10-12" closer to my ears than on my wrist.
Misses were largely due to drifting to the right of my bearing plus visibility on the first two (numbers 4 and 6; to #4 I actually relocated at a permanent course marker--mapped as a black O--about 80m west of the point...ooops); and misreading the area north of 11. I should have stuck to my original plan of heading to the road and attacking off the height of land, instead of getting drawn off by other ponds connected by streams. Because the app announced my arrival a bit before I actually reached some of them I didn't necessarily go to the precise location as mapped (like the opposite end of a marshy area or pond). I did see the feature for each one.
Otherwise I was pleased by my navigation if not my speed, and the ability to be able to read some of the subtle contour detail even in the light green woods. White woods were wonderful, and I only saw a few pieces of greenbrier, mostly close to roads.
Thanks, Greg!!
Walking 1:13:55 4.23 km (17:28 / km) +22m 17:02 / km
ahr:98 max:146
Swung by Lehigh Gorge and walked a bit on the D&L rail trail. Not much in the way of wildflowers or birds (though we heard plenty). At the side waterfall of Rattling Run I could see remnants of red trilliums. Cliffs were pretty impressive, as was the size of the rhododendrons along the trail.
Then we drove back across the Lehigh and parked to look at the ruins of the tannery.
Then we drove back across the Lehigh and parked to look at the ruins of the tannery.