Orienteering
Obsession
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Imagine yourself running through the woods, dressed in clothing designed to slide past the briars and to protect your legs from the brush and bushes. On your feet are special lightweight shoes with cleats on the soles so that your footing is excellent on any surface -- rock, clay or even loose pine straw. You know exactly where you are and where you are going because you’re carrying a compass and a detailed topographical map that shows every ditch and boulder, every trail and stream. You are navigating through a series of check points placed on minor terrain features and circled on your map. This is a race - a foot race, a thought race, a cross-country running sport for the puzzle-solver, the thinker. This is Orienteering.
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in finding more about orienteering or an orienteering event near you?
Visit
the US Orienteering Federation’s
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Contents
Safety and SAR Plans for Orienteering Events
Orienteering Lesson Plan
How the Plan Works
The Orienteering Lesson Plan was written with the needs of the high school ROTC instructor in mind. However, it can be adapted by other teachers and coaches. The plan consists of 14 classroom session and 3 field trips to local orienteering club events to practice the skills learned. The format is available in either MS Word or PDF.
Coaching Documents
When to use a compass – and when not
to …
Mistake
Proofing for Orienteering
NJROTC
Orienteering Training Manual – by LCDR Matthew Pheiffer
Favorite
Links
USOF
Sanctioning Calendar for National Events
International
Orienteering Federation
Clue – Control
Description program
Purple Pen
– Course planning software
IRS
Information for Tax Exempt Organizations
Safety
and SAR Plans for Orienteering Events
Background
At the Georgia Navigator Cup in January, 2002, the weather on the Saturday, which was expected to be chilly with showers, turned into heavy rain and cold and resulted in several cases of hypothermia, plus numerous cases of very chilled and wet orienteers who were disoriented and required more assistance than the host club was prepared to handle.
GAOC was fortunate to have the assistance of a GAOC member with excellent Search and Rescue training who coordinated the efforts to respond to the situation. After the event, I was asked to be on a committee with the GAOC SAR expert and representatives of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to study the problem and make recommendations. Below are the report of this committee and subsequent documents designed to encourage orienteering clubs hosting events to establish Safety Plans for events.
Report and Recommendations of the Georgia DNR committee
Safety Plan designed by the Columbia River Orienteering
Club
USOF Requirements for club hosting “A” Events
Local Meet Procedures
Local Meet Director’s Workbook
Trail Orienteering
Trail Orienteering is a discipline in which mobility-limited orienteers can compete on equal terms with those that are able-bodied. The control sites are viewed from a wheelchair-accessible main route. The main skills are interpreting the map and control descriptions, not navigation.
2005 Trail O Champs – results, photos, maps
IOF Trail Orienteering Rules 2009
Membership Forms
Membership Application – 3 across (PDF)
Club
Documents
Financial
Reports
Last revised: 12/29/2009