Snow orienteering crash course
Failures in the powder.
FOREST RUNNINGORIENTEERING
11/25/20231 min read
Finally, I got the time to run! And compared to the last 24 days of november, it was sunny, it was shiny with the finest white thin powder snow laid out for me.


I headed out on this "course of the week" orienteering, and the -3 degrees was feeling fine. My body felt good: no knee pain anymore. Somewhere before the starting point I started to film and said to myself that I would do a "snow orienteering crash course", whatever that was. It was a bad way to start off, because the first control was a lot of undistinct trail orienteering. The trails was hidden behind snow and I lost them all the time. Soon into the first control I started filmning and 20 seconds later on I was so unfocused I really messed the mapreading up and was running to the wrong hill.


Running to the next one I passed this fake tomb that was put here some 100 years ago, "The philosophers grave" which made me stop and contemplate over life for a short while:
This ended me up skipping the most part of the course, failing on nailing the next control also. But I got a nice hour outside in this sun. Notice the potty someone put in the middle of the forest. Odd terrain feature:
When I finally started to get a creative feeling, the camera battery died. I ran home.

