Orienteering

Bedok Green NPCC and NPCC HQ

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Basic Navigation
Why do we need Basic Navigation Skills?

• Help us stay on course during expeditions

• Important during survival situations

o Search for help
o Lead us to safety
• Not solely dependent on GPS devices, signal or battery
• Comes in handy when the following happens:
o No GPS signal
o GPS devices run out of battery 2
Maps

Parts of the map

● Northing (4 and 6 figure grid)
● Easting (vertical lines)
● Compass Rose
● Scale
● Legend
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Maps

● Map settings by Inspection

● Measuring Maps Distances
● Converting Map to Ground Distances (scale)
● Contour Lines

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Maps
● Measuring Ground Distances using Pacing
● Direction Finding using Stick Shadow Method
● Direction Finding using Magnetic North

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Terrain Features
1. Hilltop (highest part of the hill)
2. Ridges (continuous line of high ground)
3. Saddles (lowest point)
4. Valleys (Groove bordered on the sides by higher
ground)
5. Depressions (hole in the ground)
6. Draws (less developed stream course)
7. Spurs (usually short, continuously sloping line of
the higher ground)
8. Cliffs (Vertical slopes)

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Parts of Silva Compasss
● Base plate
● Ruler
● Direction of the Travel arrow
● Magnifier
● Index pointer
● Dial
● Compass housing
● Orienteering arrow
● Orienting lines
● Compass needle

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Setting a map

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV3S0ikV4KA

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Taking and using a bearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwnt9oZvy3o

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Taking a compass bearing from a landscape feature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BADUq3Maqbo

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Pacing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VW3Mt_DgJw

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