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Sunday Aug 8, 2021 #
10 AM
hike 15:00 [1]
11 AM
orienteer 1:20:14 6.17 km (13:01 / km) +141m 11:41 / km
ahr:139 max:160
US Nationals, Long
Crash and burned. Never found 2, wandered aimlessly, took forever to find the main road and walk back to finish. More details later, but I'm pretty sure I went off our map.
OK, a few days later, I'm ready to share some maps (brown and green). Here is my brown map with the track. Obviously I was way off on my compass bearing towards 2, then kept on going. I never read the map or contours, never recognized I was crossing the marsh, and had no clue about time or distance traveled. Even coming back, I didn't recognize the marsh. You can see I stood there for a while (red part of track southeast of 2) for a while trying to identify the feature. I never did (while I was on the course). It looked like a big long field to me. I was looking for yellow on the map. I was not able to read the map at all from about half way to 2--- then a few hundred meters before the finish. A big blank mind in-between while I wandered.
Just for fun, I loaded my track over the green course. The crude red circle is my #2. I found control 90 while I was out there, and asked around later to identify which course had that control. That's when I knew how far off I had wandered.
Any ideas on how one can read a map perfectly one day and then completely forget how to read it the next day?
Crash and burned. Never found 2, wandered aimlessly, took forever to find the main road and walk back to finish. More details later, but I'm pretty sure I went off our map.
OK, a few days later, I'm ready to share some maps (brown and green). Here is my brown map with the track. Obviously I was way off on my compass bearing towards 2, then kept on going. I never read the map or contours, never recognized I was crossing the marsh, and had no clue about time or distance traveled. Even coming back, I didn't recognize the marsh. You can see I stood there for a while (red part of track southeast of 2) for a while trying to identify the feature. I never did (while I was on the course). It looked like a big long field to me. I was looking for yellow on the map. I was not able to read the map at all from about half way to 2--- then a few hundred meters before the finish. A big blank mind in-between while I wandered.
Just for fun, I loaded my track over the green course. The crude red circle is my #2. I found control 90 while I was out there, and asked around later to identify which course had that control. That's when I knew how far off I had wandered.
Any ideas on how one can read a map perfectly one day and then completely forget how to read it the next day?