okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Expecting thick woods
"Yikes, those woods look thick."
That might be what you think when you first look at the map of Camp Naish I posted a couple of days ago.
When Orienteer Kansas first mapped Naish, the forest was almost entirely white on the map. The forest wasn't open back then. The mapping was just done a bit differently.
When the map was mostly white, people came out of the woods complaining about how thick the forest was.
When the map is mostly green, people come out of the woods saying, "it wasn't so bad."
Here is what Peggy wrote:
...The woods weren't nearly as bad as I thought they'd be. Decades of remembering the unpleasantness of Kansas woods seemed mostly unwarranted....
...The woods were actually pretty good, in some places downright pleasant, though the loose limestone was a bit scary at times....
The difference is the expectation. Expect thick forest and it doesn't seem so bad. Expect forest "reminiscent of Silvermine" and the same forest seems thick.
posted by Michael |
7:48 PM
