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Compass Fun – Orienteering in Deer Lakes Park

October 1, 2009 Lindsay

An orienteer at a control point
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Put down your iphones and pick up your compasses – join a scavenger hunt with the Western PA Orienteering Club this Sunday.

Where: Deer Lakes Park, Russellton, PA

When: Sunday, October 4, 2009; sign-in 11 AM – 2 PM

What is Orienteering? Orienteering is a competitive form of land navigation. It is for all ages and degrees of fitness and skill, and all-weather. It provides the suspense and excitement of a treasure hunt. The object of orienteering is to locate control points by using a map and compass to navigate through the woods.

What to bring? All you will need to bring is a compass (if you do not have one, we can loan you one), and appropriate footwear to walk in the woods.

Event Details: The courses offered at Deer Lakes Park will include Cross Country courses for beginner and advanced beginner, intermediate and experienced orienteers. Cross country courses involve finding a series of control flags in a pre-specified sequence. Come early if you plan to do more than one course.

  • Sign In 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
  • Must Finish the course by 3:30 pm

Instruction for novices: Available on site

Cost: $4.00 per map (family or group can share one map if they wish)

Event Location: Deer Lakes Park, Russellton, PA. Anglers shelter off entrance #1 to the park. Look for red-and-white arrow signs. http://www.cosc.iup.edu/wpoc/f09deerlakes.htm

Questions: Contact Jim Wolfe at jlwolfe@atlanticbb.net

Check our website, www.wpoc.org for complete details and driving directions for this event and the entire WPOC schedule of events.

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Filed Under: Clubs & Groups, Events Tagged With: compass, Deer Lakes Park, Orienteering, scavenger hunt, WPOC

About Lindsay

Lindsay has been writing about Pittsburgh since 2005. She likes pretzels from the Pretzel Shop on Carson St., used book stores, her rollerblades and she hopes to learn to skateboard someday soon.

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Comments

  1. alyssa says

    October 1, 2009 at 2:38 PM

    that seems like so much fun. They should have a celebrity version of this. i would enjoy watching dumb broke celebrities get lost on national tv.

  2. alyssa says

    October 1, 2009 at 4:38 PM

    that seems like so much fun.

    They should have a celebrity version of this. i would enjoy watching dumb broke celebrities get lost on national tv.

  3. VanpeltSimpson90 says

    October 27, 2009 at 5:01 AM

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