06Mar2010 Odyssey Advanced Land Navigation Clinic
Roanoke, VA
Join Ronny Angell, member of Team ImONPoint.org – Odyssey Adventure Racing, for the Odyssey Advanced Land Navigation Clinic.
The Odyssey Advanced Land Navigation Clinic will be information packed day of compass, topographical map study and orienteering in Roanoke. This will be an full hour day consisting of minimum classroom study with more emphasis on day and night field work. You will learn from knowledgeable instructors with years of adventure racing, hiking and backcountry experience. You will learn techniques that are proven to work and more importantly how to work together with a team to navigate successfully.
There will be 2 hours of classroom instruction and 6-8 hours of field work finding plotted points using the skills you have learned. We will cover between 8-10 miles, on foot at a slow and learning pace, mostly off trail through thick brush, open forest and steep hillsides.
The Odyssey Advanced Navigation Clinic will explain:
* Techniques to use to know where you are at on your map at all times
* What to do if you have lost contact with your map
* Teach how to transition from one map to other and keep all the information flowing
* How to use terrain features, compass, and altimeter figure out your location
* Advanced route selection techniques
* When to use pace count verses time verses terrain features or all at the same time
* Teach how to use land features to your advantage during the day and night
* Night time navigation techniques
* How and when to use intentional offset, triangulation
It is HIGHLY Recommended that you have completed and Odyssey Land Navigation Clinic, Odyssey Adventure Racing Academy, or some other navigation course before registering for this clinic. You will need to know and have practice these follow skills. We will spend little if any time on the teaching these skills.
* Know the different types of maps
* Know different types of map scales
* Teach how to use all the information on a topographical map
* Identify land features on a map
* Teach how to identify land features in the field
* Teach how to use a compass and its different features
* Understand and use declination
* Teach how to measure and plot a bearing on the map
* Teach how to take and follow a bearing in the field
* Teach how to plot UTMs (Universal Transverse Mercator)
* Teach how to make and use a plotting tool for a map of any scale
Do not forget to come support On Point Foundation Athletes as they race around the USA for disabled service members.
