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Orienteering & Hiking

From woodland paths, limestone valleys to open moorland plateaus the Peak District affords diverse contrasts in scenery and terrain.

Walking in the Peak District

Your orienteering and hiking journey could negotiate all types of terrain including defined rights of way, scrambling over rocks and cascades, through peat bogs, even micro navigating your way across the moors in poor visibility to the site of an historic aircraft crash.

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 control points visited in the shortest time promotes strategic thinking and spontaneous decision making.

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 roles of responsibility to keep all participants motivated and focused on the broader task.

Mountain Walking

Acclimbatize staff are available to support your UK and overseas mountain expeditions in any seasonal or climatic conditions. 
Members of our staff team are qualified Mountaineering Instructors and / or holders of the the International Mountain Leaders Carnet. 
We can supply qualified professionals to lead parties within the UK, on high altitude treks and on mountainous expeditions worldwide.

Development
 – The benefits of expeditioning are comprehensively documented – personal discovery, self-reliance, perseverance, broadened horizons, commitment, teamwork, leadership and judgement are to mention just a few of the more obvious personal rewards. For many, even the most simple of expeditions can become a critical milestone in their development. For others, these endeavours may be a starting point of a lifetime spent actively pursuing more adventurous challenges.

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Events

We frequently use orienteering as a themed thread on many of our adventurous events. 
Groups can be tasked with organising themselves to search wide areas in the most efficient and effective way. By doing this individual members can take responsibility for allocating roles or leading smaller groups in any way to best achieve the task.

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Benefits of Orienteering & Hiking in Derbyshire

  • Acclimbatize staff are available to support your UK and overseas expeditions in any terrain and in any seasonal or climatic conditions.
  • 
Members of our staff team are qualified Mountaineering Instructors and / or holders of the International Mountain Leaders Carnet.
  • We can supply qualified professionals to lead parties within the UK, on high altitude treks and on mountainous expeditions worldwide.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Orienteering sessions usually begin with learning or refreshing some fundamental map work skills. These typically include; setting the map to ground, learning the scale, map symbols, identification of features, and some route planning. Once the basics are in place participants may be asked to find a single point and return to a central control point. This process may be repeated until the facilitator is confident to give a whole course. Orienteering can last up to 3 hours – but our navigation days can be full 7 or 8 hour days.

There is no limit to the amount of people on orienteering depending on the location. Participants will be organised into small teams and set off in time windows.

Fitness levels can be factored into the event as part of the day … those extremely fit ones can go further and faster while other team members deal with the overall strategy or timekeeping.

Navigation training and hiking for groups can be done anywhere in the UK, we prefer to operate in the Peak District for Orienteering.

Orienteering combines well with many other activities such as climbing, abseiling and scrambling.

Related Activities

You can view our other activities below

Abseiling

Bushcraft

Canoeing

Caving

Gorge Scrambling

Mobile Climbing Wall

Onsite Activities

Raft Building

Rock Climbing

Rock Scrambling

Team Building Activities

Accreditations

The association logos throughout the pages of this website represent membership of the highest professional bodies at both national and international levels. Click on any of the logos below to view our safety and quality information.