Green's Creek Orienteering Practice Thursday Orienteering Practice
September 22nd 2022 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Organizer: Jeff Teutsch (Coach)
Map: Greens Creek
Parking and meeting point: We will meet between the dome and the Glouster Hornet's clubhouse at the Hornets Nest off Bearbrook Rd as shown on the map for a 6:30 start. Parking is free or you can be green and take public transit or bike.
Training: For this training we will be taking a closer look at contours. This is an area filled with large reentrants (gullies and ravines) and is the perfect place to explore large simple contour features. That doesn't make it easy.
The intermediate group will go out and explore with an instructor that will explain how the contours represent the terrain and then you will have a chance to go out on your and try using the contours to find controls.
Advanced orienteers will have a couple of courses where they will be forced to go up down and across these reentrants at various angles.
There will be some tips and helpful advice from one of our coaches at the start of the practice and there will be coaches around throughout to give you feedback.
Team Canada and Train to Train program athletes will start with a group warm-up that anyone is welcome to join.
You will need a headlamp with you from now on. We recommend a headlamp with a rating of at least 500 lumens and more is better. If you have questions about purchasing a headlamp you can reach out to jeff@ottawaoc.ca.
Please e-mail Jeff Teutsch at jeff@ottawaoc.ca by noon on Thursday to reserve a map. We do not guarantee maps for those that don't send an e-mail.