A Rough Day

A rough day in the open fields. The weeds are head high and wet. And you can see the Plant Yates smokestacks from there (a Georgia Power plant). I spent a lot of time standing still, pencil poised over the paper, trying to decide how to represent what I was looking at. There are simply not enough levels of the open field symbol. There is "open", which I reserve for mown fields and lawn. There is "rough open", which I use for everything else. I can modify that by using scattered trees and the two levels of vertical green bars. It gets complicated, and there are a lot of decisions to make. Not much ground was covered. Like I said last week, the bend in the river is going to take a while.

I also ventured down into the floodplain. 300 meters between the last contour and the river. Yikes! This will be very difficult terrain for the orienteer, but at least they will have my map to help them. I have nothing - the photo is of little use unless there is some kind of old field or road. The lidar contours loop back and forth and over and around. It's very wet down there.

So I am thinking of postponing the fields until after the first frost, which won't be until November. Instead I will map the forest around the fields and down into the flood plain. Maybe after the frost the fields will be more pleasant to tromp through.

On the way out I drove south instead of north to see how the new park road is coming along. It looks pretty good. This will be the entrance to the park. No sign that there is much activity inside the park yet. Rumor is that there will be a groundbreaking next month.