* As of now, this event is canceled. But we are working to try to reschedule some or all of these canceled events within 2020. We will make updates to this site as timely as possible. However, for quickest notification please read our email blasts as they are issued. If you are not signed up […]
* As of now, this event is canceled. But we are working to try to reschedule some or all of the canceled events within 2020. We will make updates to this site as timely as possible. However, for quickest notification please read our email blasts as they are issued. If you are not signed up […]
Recap Chad Roberts from BSA Great Trail Council, Seneca District, Troop 262, regularly brings his scouts to many of our events. When, as coordinator for the District’s 2019 Klondike Derby at Camp Butler, he reached out to NEOOC to have orienteering as one of seven stations for the event, Club members responded with enthusiasm equal […]
ABOUT This event has been Rescheduled to Saturday, September 22, 2018. Online registration before the event is encouraged. If you don’t want to use online registration, please email us at NE Ohio Orienteering (bob@neooc.com) and we will let the instructor know to save you a map. UPDATED Location: Sippo Lake Clubhouse at the Marina The entrance […]
The purpose of a control description is to give greater precision to the picture given by the map of the control feature, and to indicate the location of the control flag in relation to this feature, thereby helping the competitor to better visualize the control site.
Our compasses aren’t surveyors’ tools – any bearing you measure on the map will likely be off by one or two degrees. As you follow the bearing, you are likely to unconsciously veer off another degree or two. Sometimes these errors will offset each other and you’ll end up exactly on target. But at other times they will compound each other. Over a 100 meter leg, a 3 degree error will put you 5 meters off course. You will likely still be able to see your target. But over a 500 meter leg, the same error would put you over 25 meters off course. You might very well not be able to see the control. So use your compass wisely as you apply the Five Key Skills: Use it to orient your map, and use it to aim yourself in a general direction, but when you use it to try to pick a precise line to a specific point, keep the distance as short as possible.
The opportunities to make mistakes while orienteering are virtually limitless, and a standard catalogue of errors looks uncomfortably like a graduate-student reading list. Instead of focusing on a frightening multitude of potential mistakes, let’s work on a few specific techniques to avoid them.
Orienteering offers many benefits, but its real attraction is that it is fun! It is a joy to walk and run through forests and fields. Armed with a compass and a map, competitors must use their navigational skills to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed.
As part of an effort to increase awareness of orienteering as a sport, and to incorporate the many educational and problem- based learning aspects of the sport into the curriculum, NEOOC teamed up with 4th graders from Kenston Intermediate School to put on an orienteering event.
Andreas Johansson, NEOOC Club Member, introduces the sport of orienteering in a shorter version of the original video.