Orienteering Skills

October 30, 2007

Cockshoot Hill

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