Beginner-level Navigation Skills Course
Orienteering 101
Co-hosted with Stark 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 Stark Parks’ Sippo Lake Park, taught by members of the Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club (NEOOC). In a two and half 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 and attire appropriate for trails and the weather. A baseplate compass. A limited number of compasses will be available to borrow.
Details
- Saturday, April 18
- Check-in beginning at 12:30 pm.
- Instruction beginning at 1:00 pm with a 40-minute classroom session followed by a guided outdoor practice session and short orienteering course – appx 1 mile, mostly on trails.
- Location: Exploration Gateway Room A at Sippo Lake Park, 5712 12th St NW, Canton, OH 44708
- Fee: $10 per individual or small group. Pay at event, cash or paypal
- Preregistration preferred, but walkups welcome
PLEASE REVIEW THE WAIVER OF LIABILITY AND ASSUMPTION OF RISK BEFORE PREREGISTERING. BY REGISTERING, 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
Registration
Register here! Registration Closed. Check back for more classes later in the year.
For questions, email us at: registrar@neooc.com
Volunteers
A big THANKS to
- Stark Parks
- Event Director & Chief Instructor: Howard Montgomery
- Venue Liaison: Jay@neooc.com
Location
Exploration Gateway at Sippo Lake Park, 5712 12th St NW, Canton, OH 44708
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