Thus, you must attend both weekend days to receive credit for this class. Remember, attendance on two weekend days is mandatory. If you miss one or more days you can not receive credit for the class. He has competed in orienteering races in Norway, the birth place of the sport of orienteering and has extensive navigation experience on expeditionary trips including winter traverses of the Flat Tops of Colorado, Gospel Hump and River of No Return Wilderness of Idaho, and the Brooks Range of Alaska. Planametric vs. topographic maps, map symbols, map scales, coordinate system, longitude and latitude, UTM system, state coordinate system, township and range, contour line, interrupting contour lines.
Students also locate bench marks.
Map bearings, bearing without oriented maps, determining map distances, resection and orienteering techniques. Walking bearing and pacing practice. Field bearing practice. Includes both straight map reading techniques, compass work, pacing and bearings. The last point requires use of the orienteering technique of aiming off.