Night-O at Kendall Lake

The North East Ohio Orienteering Club (NEOOC) had their Night-O meet at Kendall Lake area of the Cuyahoga National Park. Start times began at 7 PM, with still a bit of light, and later helped with an almost full moon. There were three courses available: White, Yellow, and 3.8 km Wack-O course. Did three mistakes, of which two while looking for control 3. Missed the reentrant and kept going on trail until noticed the slight curvature of the trail and realized I went too far. Then, once in proximity of control, for some reason was convinced that the control was a reentrant junction and kept on following stream downstream (control was instead on a rootstock, much closer to main trail). The third mistake was after finding control 5 on the fence, gained top of hill and intended to follow a trail to cross the meadow, but must have overshot it and went south looking for that trail, then realized I must have missed it, and instead of returning on my steps looking for that trail, I instead just crossed the meadow (lots of tall grasses), under a full moon. Going from 8 to 9 was pretty adventurous, the creek bottom full of debris and fallen trees, had to duck and crawl.

For lighting, used a $3 chinese-made flashlight with 12 LED, powered by three AA regular batteries. Used the same light for the North American Rogaine in Salamanca, New York earlier in June with great results.

Started at 7:16 PM, finished at 8:02 PM.

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