Took advantage of a vacation week to get in 5 straight days of field checking and one day of drafting. What a week! I'm exhausted. Let's see if I can remember what happened.
Day 1: Finished the marshes on the west map, see previous blog post.
Day 2: Mapped all the low hills between the new road and the marshes, out as far as the campground.
Day 3: Mapped the strip of land between the new road and the big power line, finishing this base map page. This narrow area had to be mapped, of course. Who knows if it will ever be used for any real orienteering.
Day 4: Started the final base map page. This is the area that extends south past the campground along the river. I walked all the way out there, then followed the boundary around, then walked all the way back. By my calculation, a distance of 14 km. I vowed never to do that again, and when I got home I phoned a contact I had with the construction company and got permission to drive out there.
Day 5: Drove out just short of the campground and parked, then mapped in the new area. For the first time I got behind the gate and drove on the new park road. What fun!. But the logging roads are terrible, even for my pickup truck. Very afraid of getting stuck, but managed to get out there and back OK.
Day 6: Collapsed in front of the computer and caught up on the drafting.
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