Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Picking up the bags from the previous days clinic. Also, what appeared to be a bag left over from the meet I course set here last fall. It was the go control on a few courses, I believe, so I think whoever organised pickup in my absence must have decided they could just walk out and get it any old time, not included it when they divied up the map and then forgot about it. Good in a way since I managed to lose a control somewhere in the woods while I was hanging the bags on Saturday - at least I brought back the same number of bags I borrowed even if the one that's been hanging there for a year isn't quite as pretty as the one I lost.

Green course at Lake Accotink. Most small difficulties due to low visibility in the vegetation. I also wasn't at my most disciplined about doing everything properly - a careless attack on the first control is my only excuse for losing that split and I had a few other lapses. The newly added area east of the dam was fairly bewildering - reading all the details through the undergrowth screen that covered much of that section was hard. Also, I think 13 was mishung slightly south of the end of the ditch in question. Though it wasn't far off and it shouldn't have taken me so long to spot if I'd been scanning in all directions inside the circle as I ought.

After running at Lake Accotink, I headed back to Fountainhead and quickly mapped some bits of the Bull Run Occoquan trail that have never made it onto our Fountainhead West map (from slightly before the trail reaches Wolf Run Shoal Road to just past the first major stream west of there). Not quite to orienteering standards but the pressing need is to get a map stretching from Fountainhead to Hemlock in shape for Venture Quest so that shouldn't matter for the moment.

Green - Splits