Workshop / Class All Ages
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The Navigation & Orienteering course was rained out last week. It has been rescheduled for Monday, May 19.
This course is ideal for people who would like to learn the basics of orienteering as well as wilderness navigation. During the course of the day, you will begin to learn how to read maps using a Map Walk on Google image and a 1:10 000 scale map of area. Scale, distance, and features will all be discussed and you will learn to orient map to ground. In addition, participants will learn how to use a compass. Focus will be on parts, safety bearing, setting a bearing to an object, orient a map to compass, and set a bearing on a map. In the afternoon, everything learned will be put into practice.
Presenter Jim Blanchard has been teaching orienteering and leading competitions for the Annapolis Valley Orienteering Club for a number of decades.
[email protected]
The Navigation & Orienteering course was rained out last week. It has been rescheduled for Monday, May 19.
This course is ideal for people who would like to learn the basics of orienteering as well as wilderness navigation. During the course of the day, you will begin to learn how to read maps using a Map Walk on Google image and a 1:10 000 scale map of area. Scale, distance, and features will all be discussed and you will learn to orient map to ground. In addition, participants will learn how to use a compass. Focus will be on parts, safety bearing, setting a bearing to an object, orient a map to compass, and set a bearing on a map. In the afternoon, everything learned will be put into practice.
Presenter Jim Blanchard has been teaching orienteering and leading competitions for the Annapolis Valley Orienteering Club for a number of decades.
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Lockhart Ryan Memorial Park
New Minas, Nova Scotia
[email protected]
902-681-6972
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