Blomidon Naturalists Society

Grants entry to the full day Orienteering course. 

Course Fee

<span fr-original-style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;" id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important; box-sizing: inherit;">This course is ideal for people who would like to learn the basics of orienteering and wilderness navigation. During the course of the day, you will begin to learn how to read maps using a Map Walk on Google image and a 1:10 000 scale map of area. Scale, distance, and features will all be discussed and &nbsp;you will learn to orient map to ground. In addition, participants will learn how to use a compass. Focus will be on parts, safety bearing, setting a bearing to an object, orient a map to compass, and set a bearing on a map.&nbsp;<span fr-original-style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit;">In the afternoon, everything learned will be put into practice.&nbsp;<div fr-original-style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit;"> </div> <div fr-original-style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit;">Meeting point: Louis Millett Community Complex,&nbsp;9489 Commercial St, New Minas</div> <div fr-original-style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5; box-sizing: inherit;">Meeting time: 10:00 am &nbsp; Finish time: 4:30 pm&nbsp; Bring a lunch, snacks, and plenty of fluids and wear clothes to fit the weather conditions of the day. Even if it is warm, long pants should be worn with a good pair of running shoes or light hiking boots. Participants may wish to carry a pencil and small notebook for notes. Presenter <span fr-original-style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: docs-Roboto; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: inherit;">Jim Blanchard has been teaching orienteering and leading competitions for the Annapolis Valley Orienteering Club for a number of decades.&nbsp;</div>

Hi <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip" fr-original-style="" style="background-color: rgb(248, 248, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255); border-radius: 4px; color: rgb(42, 42, 196); padding: 1px 8px; font-size: 11px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: anywhere; user-select: none; box-sizing: inherit;">First name, Thank you for registering for the Navigation in Orienteering course!&nbsp; A few important reminders&hellip;&nbsp;&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Meeting time is 10:00 am at the Louis Millett Community Complex, 9489 Commercial St, New Minas &nbsp;(Monday, May 19)&nbsp;&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Wear appropriate clothes for the weather&nbsp;&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Bring your lunch, snacks, and water&bull; &nbsp; &nbsp;Bring some paper and a pencil Looking forward to seeing you there! 🚀 Leonie Muldooncoordinator@blomidonnaturalists.ca

This course is ideal for people who would like to learn the basics of orienteering and wilderness navigation. During the course of the day, you will begin to learn how to read maps using a Map Walk on Google image and a 1:10 000 scale map of area. Scale, distance, and features will all be discussed and  you will learn to orient map to ground. In addition, participants will learn how to use a compass. Focus will be on parts, safety bearing, setting a bearing to an object, orient a map to compass, and set a bearing on a map. In the afternoon, everything learned will be put into practice. <div> </div> <div>Meeting point: Louis Millett Community Complex, 9489 Commercial St, New Minas</div> <div>Meeting time: 10:00 am   Finish time: 4:30 pm  Bring a lunch, snacks, and plenty of fluids and wear clothes to fit the weather conditions of the day. Even if it is warm, long pants should be worn with a good pair of running shoes or light hiking boots. Participants may wish to carry a pencil and small notebook for notes. Presenter Jim Blanchard has been teaching orienteering and leading competitions for the Annapolis Valley Orienteering Club for a number of decades. </div>

Blomidon Naturalists Society

Navigation & Orienteering - Full Day Field Course

9489 Commercial St

Course Fee

$50