Great Brook SP in Carlisle. Sunny, 60F or so (53F in house this am). Was going to do brown but no brown. Plan was to be accurate & steady. Mentally rusty; turned the 305 on & off a few times vs getting splits. Did not consciously note e-punch light/sound on a few controls which is not good. TP did the work. Nice work! Reminded what a neat place this is for multiple use.
1 uncertain, 30” - not a good AP
2 ok - nice woods in & ok out
3 left the path to early - some uncertainty - 15”
4 1/4000 proved useful but covered ground too fast, got a bit confused, got on trails I was not at all good w/ reloc - finally just went east, knew there was the large reentrant that way & relocated once there. 2’?
5 trails & some recognition fm 4
6 sloppy leaving field, some uncertainty but a flag appeared....
7 ok
8 left for cp where trail dips in reentrant, went straight to it in some green
9 straight
10 encountered jj
11 jj again tho we went different ways - maybe another red too?
12 back across dam - not sure about brook - finally N across green reentrant
13 lost a minute or so - not sure how - think I saw all the right trails/turns but relocated by a cp to the SSW in long depression - 1’
14 ok - been there before
15 along wall in field & to trail
16 went right to road - did not look inviting at all to go straight
17 & F straightforward
best time c 60’?
Found a cardboard cylinder on the car hood containing pencilled copy of Upton SF from the spring/summer of ’80. Not sure when I last saw it. Nice surprise, someone! Left with a NEOC membership application as well - about time.
Drove down Fiske as in memory lane. Ran into this turkey just about in front of the house. Would not get out of way...owned the road! Stopped to visit Pamela Sampson after nearly 20 years! She was home (now 83) - spent a very nice 30’ visiting & learning of her as well as Chris & Ian’s lives. She was amused to hear my age. Time is but the stream I go fishing in - but did not have time for Walden.