Orienteering,

Camping, Hiking, Trekking,

Mountaineering
Mountaineering
Romeo Roberto “Romi” Garduce Britannica defines mountaineering or
was the first Filipino to climb the Seven mountain climbing as a sport in
Summits of the World: attaining or attempting to attain high
points in mountainous regions, mainly
✘Mt. Aconcagua of Argentina for pleasure of the climb.
✘Mt. Everets of Nepal In the European context,
✘Mt. Elbrus of Russia mountaineering is referred to as
✘Mt. Mckinley or Denali Peak of Alpinism, which means climbing with
Alaska difficulty such as climbing the alps.

✘Mt. Kosciuszko of Australia

✘Mt. Carstensz Pyramid of Indonesia
✘Vinson Massif of Antarctica

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How to prepare for a hike
✘ Physical Conditioning
✗ It is important that a person be of good health and
reasonably fit before engaging in outdoor physical
activities. But it does not mean that a person cannot join
hiking trips just because he or she is not agile or athletic
as others.
✘ Trip Planning
✗ Planning is basic to any activity.

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 Tips to find your Pace during
Hiking
1. Start out a pace that seems fairly easy and walk for 5 minutes at
this pace—same length pace and same speed of step.
2. Stop and check your breathing. If normal breathing, then increase
your pace and start over. If you are breathing heavily or are
sweating, then slow down your pace.
3. Repeat this until you settle on a pace that barely raises your
breathing but does not make you sweat.
4. The next day, hike the same distance trying to keep the same
pace previously. See if it takes you the same amount of time.
When you can cover the same distance in the same time fairly
consistently, you have found a steady pace.
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 Camping
✘ FRONTCOUNTRY ✘ BACKCOUNTRY
CAMPING CAMPING
✘ Sometimes also called ✘ No amenities are readily
“car camping” available and motorized
vehicles cannot reach
✘ It is done on established
the camping site. It will
camp grounds where it is
require some physical
close to a vehicle with
exertion suchas hiking
certain amenities and
or canoeing to travel to
emergency aids
the location or to move
from place to place.
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Essential things to bring during a
camping trip
✘ Clothes
✗ Base layer or skin layer
✗ Insulating layer
✗ Wind and/or rain-barrier layer
✘ Sleeping bag or pad
✘ Tents
✘ Cooking and eating utensils

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 Orienteering
✘ The beginnings of
✘ Is an activity where the
orienteering can be traced to
participant’s goal is finding
Scandinavia where it was
various checkpoints in a pre-
part of the skills that the
set course using a specially
military needed to learn.
created detailed map and
the compass to navigate in ✘ It meant “crossing unknown
an unfamiliar terrain. grounds” using maps and
compass.

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Equipment used in orienteering
✘ Map
✗ The best map to use is the topographic map
✘ Compass
✗ The orienteering compass is the best compass to
use during a race.

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Map

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Compass

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 How is the orienteering compass used
1. Hold the compass level in the pal of your hand in front of
your stomach.
2. Position the compass so that the direction-of-travel arrow
(DTA) is pointing straight out in front of you.
3. Suppose you want to go southwest, with the compass just
resting on you’re your pal, turn the Bezel so that northwest
aligns with the DTA.
4. Still holding the compass flat in your hand and DTA
pointing straight out, turn yourself and/or your hand until
the magnetic needle points or is aligned with the North
magnetic orienting arrow or with the lines inside the
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Cont.
5. Then, check where the DTA is pointing now, that is, the
direction you will be going, in this case the southwest.
6. Go to where the DTA is pointing, keep the red needle
aligned with the north magnetic orienting arrow and for
our example you are now moving southwest.

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