Orienteering Skills
October 30, 2007
Basic Orienteering Skills
- Folding the map
- Thumbing the map
- Orientating the map to north (with ground or compass)
- Reading features on the map
- Taking a compass bearing
- Following a compass bearing
- Pacing
- Judging Distance
Intermediate Orienteering Skills
- Route choice
- Aiming off
- Simplification
- Reading fine detail – map to ground (ie. ahead)
- Reading fine detail – ground to map (ie. present and ahead)
- Rough compass and relocate (deliberate)
- Attack point – choosing one
- Attack point – using one
- Traffic Lighting
- Visualisation of contours
- Visualisation of other features (ie. map to ground)
- Relocation (when contact has been lost)
- Disaster recovery in the circle
