It's true, ski season is not quite over (thankfully). But it is late March, so the end is coming soon. It's a weekend and we have the grandkids, so it's an opportunity for my grandson and me to get out into the woods and sharpen our orienteering skills
The season begins with a BYOM (bring your own map) event where members can download maps for the various courses then hit the trail at their convenience.
My teenage grandson and I head out to the Acton to do the Orange course. It says it 3.5km, but that's only if you travel in straight lines, which we don't because that's not the way the trails run.
We park at roadside church and head off to find the start. This course is on both sides of the road. I look like we'll do 4 controls on the west and then head across the road (and the lake) to capture the other 6 controls and finish.
It's a late winter day with temps only in the 40's so we really doing winter hiking.
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| Just before we cross the bridge to the other side of the lake. |
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| Just after the finish! Yay! |
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| The lake is actually pretty marshy, but very pretty in late winter with no bugs! |
We cover the course in a little over an hour and a half. The runny thing was that my friend John did the course a couple days later and finished ahead of us by a little over a minute. He told me that he did self timing, so with the QR code timing we did, we probably actually beat him.
