Discussion: Thanks, Earl!

Had fun picking out routes; turned out to be mostly the same ideas as yours. On #11 my first choice was to take the little trail that contours around the hill to the N - maybe too far out of the way, but less climb (Bay Area instincts: avoid climb). Thanks to Earl for all those trails, though: I'd probably get very lost out there without them.

Earl is real. He was the director of outdoor education for Hampshire College (just off the north edge of the map). Recently retired, moved to Bend, Oregon.

Would have been nice if he had had an interest in maps and orienteering, but that was not the case.

I visited Hampshire College once, probably around 1979, before I knew about orienteering. I was taking a week-long "Chautauqua" course (something for college faculty) on cosmology at Mt. Holyoke, and at that time I had a cousin who was a student at Hampshire, so I managed to make time to visit her. Hampshire and Stockton (where I was teaching) were two of the six "alternative" colleges examined in the book "The Perpetual Dream". Guess I was there a little early for a course at Earl's Trails.

I designed #11on Green with the idea that taking the trail to the north would be a bit faster, but you never know for sure until you try it (and Charlie executed the southern route well). That leg is on both Brown and Green, so if I run both courses, I can check it out.

As Karen and I trudged around the north side trail, Karen said she couldn’t get the tune “She’ll be comin’ round the mountain “ out of her head.