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Alfred Webb timed it. The first orienteering marker in the park's beginner course lies 314 degrees from the northwest corner of the parking lot. Webb put it there. Precisely 750 feet up the Falls Nature Trail is a tall beech tree with a boulder embedded in its roots. Webb remembers it. He it innumerable passed times trekking through the national park along 26 miles of trails' he literally put on the map. volun... The teer walks slower now, frequently pausing along the rocky path to catch his breath, but his mind still races. , "There are old charcoal roads you still run across," he says, "Where does it lead? What will I find?" Catoctin Mountain Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains just 32 miles from Falling Waters, WVa., and about 60 from both Baltimore and Washington remains a fascinating subject for the retired federal microbiologist more than 50 years after he arrived in nearby Myersville. Park workers feel the same about Webb, one of more than 120,000 volunteers who donate more than four million hours annually to America's national parks. "He's just a delightful personality, and working with him is just a joy because he's so energetic and enthusiastic," said interpretive ranger Debra Mills. She has known Webb since the early 1980s when he helped rebuild a washed-ou- t horse trail in the park; which surrounds the Camp David presidential retreat. He already knew the 5,770-acr- e park well, havclimbed the quartzito ing faces of Wolf and Chimney rocks and followed overgrown roads to the abandoned homes of charcoal and moonshine makers. Webb also took an orienteering class at the park and became so interested in the discipline of navigating' with map and. compass that when rangers needed help marking and mapping a second orienteering course, Webb volunteered. "I tried to make use of things like this," he said, stopping on a footbridge over a crystal stream. 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