Safety and Logistics

VLUS Orienteering

Calendar

• Tuesday: Route planning and study guide

• Advisory 3: Study guide

• Advisory 4: Safety and logistics

• Oct 2: Field Trip to the forest

Safety and Logistics

• Dangerous plants and animals

• What to do if you get lost

• What to do if someone needs help

• What to do if you can’t find a team control

• When you need to be back at the finish

• What to bring on the field trip

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Field trip schedule

• Training map (30 minutes)

• TEAM CHALLENGE (2 hours)

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Map Walk 1

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TEAM CHALLENGE: Team Controls

Team controls are marked

with team and control number.

Phone numbers

• Each team should have one cell phone

• A backup-cell phone is optional

• Fully charge your cell phones before the trip

• Turn in the cell phone number for your team today during Advisory

Telling someone where you are on the map

8South

WestEast

North

250m

Teams must stay together

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Safety Bearingis WEST to the road, then along the road to the parking lot.

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Poison Ivy

• 3 leaves

• STAY AWAY!

Watch your step!

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Safety Bearingis WEST to the road, then along the road to the parking lot.

Teams must stay together

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Bring to the woods:

• Watch (at least 1 per team; cell phone OK)

• Cell phone (1 or 2 per team)

• Maps, route

• Backpack– Snack

– Lunch

– Water

• Suitable clothing– Long-sleeved shirt; long pants

– Sweatshirt, raincoat

– Comfortable close-toed shoes

• Insect repellant (optional)

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Safety

• Teams should have at least one cell phone. Trouble? Call 617-335-4847.

• Safety bearing is west.

• Teams must always stay together.

• Return to the Finish location by 12:30 at the latest.

• Watch where you step.

Safety and Logistics

• Dangerous plants and animals

• What to do if you get lost

• What to do if someone needs help

• What to do if you can’t find a team control

• When you need to be back at the finish

• What to bring on the field trip

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