East Map Complete

From Chattahoochee Bend

Spring is here - those are the first mayapples. And I have finished the east map just in time, because I picked off the first tick. Here are the stats:

20 field checking trips
129 hours 45 minutes field checking
37 hours 15 minutes drafting
167 hours total for 2.9 sq km is 57 hours 35 minutes per sq km.

That's slower than the north map, which averaged 47 hours 48 minutes per sq km, probably because of all the bare rock and the boulders.

Total project time so far is over 400 hours with 1920 miles traveled.

Boulder count: 936, not counting the "rocky ground" symbol.

The most prominent features of the east map are the bare rock and boulders, although the topography is interesting and confusing. It should be a big challenge for the orienteer.

The west map is next, and it is the biggest of the three. If I look at only the field checking, and take an average time, it will probably take 208 hours. I average 6.5 hours per trip, so that's 32 trips. With luck, I may finish by March 2011 - another year, which is about on par with the time it took me to do my last big map - Smithgall Woods/Dukes Creek, which took two years.

I'm going to take some time off now - my left knee is suffering from overuse.