Orienteering

Orienteering is a sport that challenges both mind and body.  The aim is to navigate between control points, which are marked on a unique map.  Deciding which route to take in order to maximise the number of controls visited in the shortest time promotes strategic thinking and spontaneous decision making. Our orienteering events take place within the Derbyshire Peak District and Uk wide.

Development
Within the smallest of teams 'keener' navigators will emerge to take on roles of practical leadership.  We organise our orienteering activities / events with this is mind.  By placing equal importance on group management and effective time keeping we factor in additional rolesof responsibility to keep all participants motivated and focussed on broader task. Orienteering is an obvious transferable life skill which can be implemented in real time and realised by action and review.  Orienteering also gives the opportunity for small groups to work independently of supervision in an environment which is unfamiliar and appropriately challenging. 

Events
We frequently use orienteering as the control thread on many of our adventurous events.  The control points visited may be team challenge tasks or clue locations. Through effective and coherent briefing in this activity we believe we can create an atmosphere of enthusiasm which is similar to that of competitive orienteering events. 

Geo Cache
Geo caching is an outdoor sport in which participants use hand held GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers or markers called 'Geo caches'.

A typical 'Cache' may be a small waterprook container containing a logbook or trading items such as trinkets.  Geo Caching is often described as high tech treasure hunting, it shares many aspects of orienteering.  Geo Caching can easily be set up to support learning programmes at a location of your convenience.