Navigation Skills Course
Orienteering 101
Overview
Want to improve your on and off-trail navigation ability? Looking for another way to immerse yourself in the natural world? Could you benefit from an adventure activity that maintains your fitness, both physical and mental? …An activity you can do for a lifetime.
If, Yes! You might want to try our sport/pastime of orienteering.
Quite simply, orienteering is the activity of map and compass navigation through natural or built landscapes. It’s you, a mapped course, the world around you, and a clock. You can be a competitive athlete, a weekend walker and nature enthusiast, a three-dimensional puzzle solver. Each are orienteers.
To learn more, join the navigational skills course (Orienteering for Beginners) at Sippo Lake Park (Stark Parks), taught by members of the Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club (NEOOC). In a three-hour session that will be both lecture and field work (rain or shine). You will learn how to read a topographical map, take a compass bearing using a baseplate compass, learn some important orienteering lingo and techniques, and generally how to be successful as a beginning navigator and orienteer.
Equipment needed: shoes appropriate for trails and a baseplate compass
(compasses will be available for loan, if you don’t have one).
Details
- Date & Time: Sunday, April 30th. Check-in at 12:30pm and instruction beginning at 1:00am
- End time will be appx. 3:30pm
- Location: Room A, Exploration Gateway, Sippo Lake Park – East (see link and map below)
PLEASE REVIEW THE WAIVER OF LIABILITY AND ASSUMPTION OF RISK BEFORE PREREGISTERING. BY PREREGISTERING, YOU ARE AGREEING TO THE TERMS OF THIS WAIVER AND ARE ABSOLVING NEOOC AND ORIENTEERING USA , ET AL OF LIABILITY RESULTING FROM YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE ASSOCIATED ORIENTEERING ACTIVITY.
For any questions, email us at: registrar@neooc.com
Registration and Cost
- Check-in on Sunday, April 30th from 12:30pm to 1:00pm. Cost is $20 per person or group, to be paid by cash/check at event.
- Please preregister by sending an email to registrar@neooc.com indicating the number of people in your group.
Volunteers
A big THANKS to:
- Event Director: Howard Montgomery
- Assistant Event Directors: Jay Smink, Kathy Christy
- Email Registration: Fred Mailey
- Venue Liaison: Howard Montgomery
Location
Sippo Lake Park, Exploration Gateway, Room A; 5712 12th St NW, Canton, OH 44708