Beginner-level Navigation Skills Course
Orienteering 101
Co-hosted with Aurora City Parks
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 Aurora’s Sunny Lake Park – Boathouse, taught by members of the Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club (NEOOC). In a two-hour session that will be both lecture and field work (snow, 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
- Sunday, August 18th
- Check-in beginning at 10:00 am.
- Instruction beginning at 10:30 am with a 30 to 45-minute classroom session followed by a guided outdoor practice session – approx 1 mile, all on trails. Followed by a short independent course on your own.
- Location: Sunny Lake Park – Boathouse – Aurora, OH 44202
- $15 per group (packet)
- We will also be conducting a 1-hour Score-style course on September 14th, as part of NEOOC’s annual club meeting. It will start from the Moebius Nature Center, just east of the Boathouse. Participation in the OFB will make you eligible for this free club event.
PLEASE REVIEW THE WAIVER OF LIABILITY AND ASSUMPTION OF RISK BEFORE ATTENDING. BY ATTENDING, 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
This event will use walk-up registration. Please pay any fees at the event.
Volunteers
A big THANKS to:
- Event Director & Chief Instructor: Howard Montgomery
- Venue Liaison: Jonathan Boyer