March Highlands Orienteering Practice Thursday Orienteering Practice
August 5th 2021 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Organizers: Jeff Teutsch (Organizer), Stefan Bergstrom (Coach), Tomas Graham (Coach)
Map: March Highlands
Registration:
Pre-registration is required and costs $10 per session or is free with the purchase of a summer pass (but pre-registration is still required). In order to guarantee that you get a freshly printed map please register by noon on Thursday. We will do our best to accommodate those that register Thursday afternoon by sharing maps.
Purchase a season's pass - This link will only worked for logged in club members that have signed the waiver this year. If you're having trouble make sure you are logged in and try signing the waiver.
Parking and meeting point:
We will meet at the Brady trailhead (where the trail heads into the woods opposite Brady Ave) on Old Second Line Rd. If you are driving parking is along Old Second Line. See google maps here.
Practice details:
This practice will be our first that truly focuses on forest orienteering. Different groups will be working on different skills:
Intermediate group - this group will spend the session doing a map walk with an instructor. They will be looking at, and talking about attackpoints and precision orienteering (reading all of the detail on the map!).
Advanced and Train to Train groups - these groups will working on using attackpoints effectively. Courses are being specifically set to focus on this.
Team Canada athletes - Team Canada athletes will be doing some fog orienteering - most of the map is blanked out!