Orienteering
Obsession
The Virtual
Binder has moved!
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 youre 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?
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the Orienteering USA web site.
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
Coaching Tip articles (PDF)
#1
Control Enlargement
#2
Leg Segments
#3
Attack Points
#4
Catching Features
#5
Collecting Features
#6
Contour Reading
#7
Scoping The Map
#9
Rough Compass
#10
Precision Compass
#11
Distance Estimation
#12
Choosing the Right Course
#13
Control Descriptions
#14
Aiming Off
#15
Parallel Errors
#16
Brain Fade
#17
Critical Decision Points
#18
Micro Route Choices
Favorite
Links
U.S. Orienteering Federation
(Orienteering USA)
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 Orienteering Club Meet Procedures
Local Meet Directors 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
USOF/OUSA Membership Forms
Membership Application 3 across (PDF)
USOF/OUSA
Club Documents
USOF/OUSA
Financial Reports
Year End Financial Reports
Current Monthly Financial Reports
Statement of Financial Position
Statement of Activities & Functional Expenses
Last revised: 1/31/2012