Orienteering route planning session for VLUS

1. Route Planning and Study Guide

2. Calendar
• Today: Route planning and study guide
• Advisory 3: Study guide
• Advisory 4: Safety and logistics
• Oct 2: Field Trip to the forest

3. 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?

14. 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

16. Plan route from 2 to 3
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17. Straight Line distance from 2 to 3
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18. Draw in a route from 2 to 3
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Pick up landmark controls along the way.

19. Which landmark controls will you visit?
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Answer: 120, 118, 117, 106

20. Which additional landmark controls can
you get if you have extra time?
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What would be a good lunch spot?
How much time will you need to get from there to the finish?

21. 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.

22. 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

23. 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.

24. Study Guide

25. Telling someone where you are on the
map
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South
West
East
North
250m

26. Navigating with the map
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27. Orienting the
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map

28. Orienting the
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map

29. Orienting the
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map

30. Orienting the
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map

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NORTH
SOUTH
WEST
Directions of the EAST
compass

32. 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.

34. Calendar
• Today: Route planning and study guide
• Advisory 3: Study guide
• Advisory 4: Safety and logistics
• Oct 2: Field Trip to the forest

35. 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