Orienteering (Field Checking) 4:42:50 [3] 5.55 mi (50:58 / mi) +98m 48:18 / mi
spiked:22/22c
Serpentine Barrens Conservation Park, MD. I'll label this field checking though the prime purpose was to set out controls for a training event. I was dehydrated starting out and didn't carry any water. I knew the map needed a second look over in several places. I got a slow start since I was doing so much adjusting early on. Most of it was to line-up point features better than before. I did find some more rock including one boulder cluster in an area that I'd been pretty near several times before. There was also some vegetation in one area that I hadn't really mapped through field checking. The further along I got with the controls that I was hanging, I had fewer and fewer map adjustments to make. I did get concerned about the onset of sundown at one point, so I all but stopped trying to do any more field checking. The map needed less of it anyway. I'd forgotten to bring a bag for the Go control so I had to go back a short way after getting back to my car the first time. The sun was low when I finished.
