Sunday Classic - hot was one theme. Nice map, good courses. About a B performance. #3 was maybe 110m long, lost nearly 3' to PG - I was 4:42, he was 1;51 as I recall. Didn't read map right & failed to note that control was on the high point in the area. Did not note fence crossings in time each & every time. From #7 to 8, got way off to left, not sure where I was or how I got there but was able to run up a reentrant I'd gone down earlier. Had good energy in spite of heat.
Took a peek at the campus after as, for once, did not have to drive home Sunday eve. Found the Highland Falls RR station at the brink of the Hudson, by the decrepit marina. Met a senior cadet, Paul Caston (team captain), from the O team as we were taking down our tent at Buckner, talked with him for 30' - 19 days to graduation, from east TN, glad to be done, seemed to be the quintessential young military gentleman. Went for a swim in Lake Pop, can't recall doing that but can't recall this degree of heat either.
Drove along mystical Seven Lakes Dr., the green foliage having just arrived at glorious maturity - and the whole place a veritable rock garden of Eden. Went to Beaver Pond campground for night. Sign said "no pets" emphatically. So we left but returned "can't hurt to try." Beth provided me with some decent one-liners " they're our fur children" - "you can come out and interview them" and she'd "swear on the bible (she a decent aetheist) that they had rabies vaccinations". Such machinations worked & we got a remote place in the campgound. Currently in the Bright Star diner in Central Valley. It'll do & has WiFi to make up for the lousy beer on tap.
Nice WP weekend indeed.
Okinawa Mess hall in morning still (seats c. 1400)
Morning moon on Popolopen's surface
Endless play
Barth Hall, thirty years of Saturday O dinners
"To The American Soldier", on the main campus