20Feb2010 Odyssey Land Navigation Clinic
03Apr2010 Odyssey Land Navigation Clinic
01May2010 Odyssey Land Navigation Clinic
Roanoke, VA
Join Ronny Angell, member of Team ImONPoint.org – Odyssey Adventure Racing, for the Odyssey Land Navigation Clinic.
The Odyssey Land Navigation Clinic will be an information packed day of compass, topographical map study and orienteering in Roanoke. This will be a full day consisting of classroom study with day field work. You will learn not only from textbooks, but from knowledgeable instructors with years of adventure racing, hiking and hunting experience. You will learn techniques that are proven to work, and more importantly how to work together with a team to navigate successfully.
The Odyssey Land Navigation Clinic will be beneficial to all outdoor enthusiasts, mountain bikers, hikers, backpackers, hunters, and fishermen spending time in the woods. It is a MUST for adventure racers wanting to excel in their sport of adventure racing. Navigation IS the key component of adventure racing. It doesn’t matter how well you think you know the area, or how athletic your team is. If you don’t know how to use a map and compass you will not stay on course. Our experienced instructors are accomplished adventure racing navigators, course designers, and race directors. They know the importance of navigation skills. You will learn how to avoid common errors of navigation from their field tested knowledge.
The Odyssey Land Navigation Clinic will:
- Explain different types of maps
- Explain 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
- Show an easy way to 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
- Show what tools are needed to plot successfully
- Teach route finding skills
- Teach how to use land features to your advantage during the day
- Show how to estimate pace count and when to use it
- Teach how to transition from one map to other and keep all the information flowing
- Teach how to work with a team to navigate successfully
There will be 6 hours of classroom instruction and 6 hours of field work finding plotted points using the skills you have learned. We will cover between 6-8 miles, on foot at a slow and learning pace, mostly off trail through thick brush, open forest and steep hillsides.
Class size minumin of 4 and maximum of 12.
Do not forget to come support On Point Foundation Athletes as they race around the USA for disabled service members.
