027 550 0611Orienteering teaches students a range of skills
Orienteering is a popular sport where competitors use maps to complete navigational challenges in unfamiliar areas. Orienteering can be a team sport or an individual one. Orienteering combines navigation with the use of maps compass, fitness, logical thinking and other bush craft.
Orienteering also gives students a run round and gets them tired – always a good option towards the end of the day.
Orienteering is growing into a range of sports
Orienteering is becoming a popular outdoor sport which includes
- Foot Orienteering – competitors are given a map. The map is marked with the “course” the orienteer is to follow for that race, but not the route they must take – that is up to the orienteer which is where the skill and strategy and speed comes in.
- Rogaining where you to visit as many control sites as you can within a set time limit.
- Mountian bike orienteering – Where it is across country on mountain bikes
There a a number of major events held on New Zealand for example the Spring challange where up to 450- teams of three women take part in the adventure that includes rafting, mountain biking, hiking and orienteering.
Two Orienteering courses
There are two orienteering courses, a long and short one. They are numbered Two and three. For more information and instructions you can down load visit orienteering course Tangihua.
Compasses and maps can be found on the kitchen wall. Draw a map of the lodge and various places and tracks in relation to it. Put in activity sites, type of trees, streams, viewing platforms etc (do not copy the lodge map)
