Stars Orienteering Club

Orienteering Tips

This page is meant to give you some skills and techniques for learning and improving your orienteering. Whether you are new to orienteering, an intermediate orienteer who is still getting lost from time to time, or a seasoned veteran, we hope you will find tips here to improve your skills. If some of you very seasoned veterans have some tips to share, please contact the club president.

First - for the beginner orienteer - here is an excellent site which gives some basic pointers - map orientation, keeping in touch with the map, handrails.

Now, with those thoughts in mind - try to walk through this course.

You can handle all that and you are now running the intermediate courses - but Whoa - what are all these symbols in place of words describing the control locations? Check this site for a full description of the international symbols.

Still having difficulty relating some of those features to a map? This page relates the international symbols and orienteering terminology to features on a map.

For the intermediate and advanced orienteers, this site provides a good series of more advanced techniques and a form to use for post race analysis.