Henry Raymond
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: katrinaantonovich on March 14, 2009, 08:30:57 PM
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Hello!
I was wondering if anyone in town had any orienteering experience and was interested in teaching it to others. Thanks! Katrina
Just contact me through e-mail: fairfaxparksandrec@yahoo.com (I'm also sent a note to the green mountain orienteering club, but I thought I check if there were local resources here in town!)
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Hi Katrina,
You sent me to the dictionary - We all relate words to our own personal life and to me orienteering must of had something to do with orienting people to a special task or like we had at the company I worked, Job Orientation. Wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Orienteering is a family of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain. Participants are given a map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they use to find control points.[1] Originally a training exercise in land navigation for military officers, orienteering has developed many variations. Among these, the oldest and the most popular is foot orienteering. For the purposes of this article, foot orienteering serves as a point of departure for discussion of all other variations, but basically any sport that involves racing against a clock and requires navigation using a map is a type of orienteering."
I have to be honest with you, I never heard of the game, but then again in the one room school I went too, we had to play baseball with one batter, one catcher, one pitcher and one ball chaser as that is all the students we had, so the game of baseball even had different rules.
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I've heard of it - saw a segment on that ETV "Outdoors" show about it. It seems like it was pretty cool actually and had a pretty devoted following. If something like it was to take root in Fairfax - i just might be interested in participating.