Waggaroos Noos
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Waggaroos claim home win to cut AWOC's lead
Waggaroos won the second event of the Interclub
Orienteering Challenge against Albury in the Murraguldrie State Forest last
Sunday.
All courses offered a variety of challenges to test
navigational skills ...
Posted 1 May 2019, 03:14 by Alex Davey
Waggaroos Noos
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Waggaroos claim home win to cut AWOC's lead Waggaroos won the second event of the Interclub Orienteering Challenge against Albury in the Murraguldrie State Forest last Sunday. All courses offered a variety of challenges to test navigational skills ...
Posted 1 May 2019, 03:14 by Alex Davey
What is Orienteering?  Orienteering is a sport, which combines outdoor adventure with map reading and navigational skills. It involves navigating though the bush, parks or streets with the aid of a specially produced map and orienteering compass, with the aim being to locate checkpoints (controls) on various natural and man-made features along the way, such as a boulder, track junction, bench seat or street lamp. Controls are generally represented by distinctive orange and white flags (pictured). The skill in orienteering is in choosing the best route between controls — while beginners' courses may not offer choice, as you progress you will learn to decide between options — perhaps over a hill or a longer route which goes round it. It is this stimulating mental challenge as well as the physical activity that makes orienteering so popular. Each event may have a number of courses of differing lengths and levels of difficulty occurring at the same time. | Find us on Facebook    |
