Route Planning and Study Guide

Calendar

• Today: Route planning and study guide

• Advisory 3: Study guide

• Advisory 4: Safety and logistics

• Oct 2: Field Trip to the forest

Today’s handouts

Map for planning your route Study guide

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Field trip schedule

• Training map (30 minutes)

• TEAM CHALLENGE (2 hours)

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Team Challenge Goal

• Using a map and compass, and working as a team, find controls in the woods.

– Each team will get tickets for finding controls.

– The tickets can be exchanged for prizes.

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Map Walk 1

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TEAM CHALLENGE: Landmark Controls

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TEAM CHALLENGE: Team Controls

Envelopes are marked with

team and control number.

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Water

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Man-made Symbols

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Rock

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Vegetation

(White) Forest

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Estimating distance

• 1:10,000 scale: One centimeter on the map is 10,000 centimeters (___ meters) on the ground.

– Hint: 100 centimeters = 1 meter

• A pace is two steps. Roughly how many of your paces make 100 meters? How long would it take you to walk 100 meters?

Route planning

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Route planning advice

• Use trails as much as possible

• Big trails are faster and easier to see than little trails

• Use landmark controls

Plan route from 2 to 3

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Straight Line distance from 2 to 3

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Draw in a route from 2 to 3

18Pick up landmark controls along the way.

Which landmark controls will you visit?

19Answer: 120, 118, 117, 106

Which additional landmark controls can you get if you have extra time?

20What would be a good lunch spot? How much time will you need to get from there to the finish?

Describe the route from 2 to 120

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From To Description

2 120 Start by orienting the map and heading toward 120 (west). Distance: 0.5 cm on the map = 50 m on the ground = 35 paces Come down off the knoll. Pass the cliff on the right. The control feature is a trail junction.

Describe the route from 120 to 118

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Distance = 2 cm = 200 m = 140 paces

Orient the map and head south toward 118 along the trail.

Make sure to take the left trail, not the one on the right.

Cross a trail at about 60 paces.

Pass a cliff on the right as we go up-hill.

The control feature is a trail junction

Describe the route from 118 to 117

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Distance = 2 cm = 200 m = 140 paces

Orient the map and head west along the big trail.

Fence will be on our left.

Trail will bend to the right at about 70 paces.

At about 100 paces, there will be a large trail going off to the

right.

At the next trail junction, go right and we should see the

control.

The control is at a trail junction.

Study Guide

Telling someone where you are on the map

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WestEast

North

250m

Navigating with the map

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Orienting the map

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Orienting the map

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Orienting the map

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Orienting the map

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NORTH

SOUTH

WESTEASTDirections of the

compass

Ways of orienting the map

• Match features around you

• Use your compass

• Use the sun (the sun is to the south of us in the middle of the day, if we are in the northern hemisphere)

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When to orient the map

• Orient the map at every control to make sure you head in the right direction.

• Try to keep your map oriented at all times.

• “Thumb” the map as you walk: keep your thumb roughly pointing to where you are on the map.

Calendar

• Today: Route planning and study guide

• Advisory 3: Study guide

• Advisory 4: Safety and logistics

• Oct 2: Field Trip to the forest

Previous sessions

• Introduction: learning stations.

• Field trip trial run. Video

• Advisory: contours - Slide deck

• Advisory: the sport of orienteering– Hubman brothers

– Thierry Gueorgiou

– Lakeside recruiting video

– NAOC 2014

– NAOC 2012 briefing; coach intros