Orienteering 55:00 [3]
Training at Hilton Falls West, site of the GLOF 2003 O-Cross. If anything, the snow was slightly deeper than it had been elsewhere all weekend. The pace was consequently slow and there were elephant tracks galore on most legs but this really gave me a chance to practice reading the 2.5 meter contours and anticipating confirmation of what they told me from the visible cliffs and boulders. Very useful, I think, though I'll have to wait until the North Americans to find out how much I've improved since 2003 when it comes to doing this at speed with visibility more constrained by vegetation.
Thanks be unto Sudden, Hammer, Etoile and GHO in general for an excellent weekend of training and bumping shoulders with orienteers and adventure racers - even if I did miss the apparent beginning of an international Trivial Pursuit rivalry.
