Orienteering Basic Map & Compass Find your way through the forest with a map and compass. Become comfortable with using these tools to orient yourself in unfamiliar terrain. Skills you learn here will help you whenever you navigate outdoors. "I've never been lost but I've been mighty confused for several weeks."       - Jim Bridger, mountain man and explorer, 1800's Orienteering Ages: 12 - Adult Sessions: year-round Duration: 4 hrs Cost: See Booking Request Form -- Schools --   Booking Request Form -- Community Groups       Our permanent orienteering course, developed in partnership with the Quantico Orienteering Club, has both a beginner and a challenging Score Course. If you want to use the permanent course for yourself or your group, you can purchase a laminated map and a scoring sheet for either the Beginner or the Score course. Contact our administrative office for more information. This 4-hour program is intended for the novice and will teach your group the nuts and bolts of reading topographic maps and using a compass as a navigation tool. Our 20-marker permanent orienteering course is situated throughout 225 acres of park land at Hemlock Overlook. The course starts with an icebreaker followed by instruction and map reading skills. Group participants will learn how to distinguish map scales and contour lines, along with the anatomy of a compass and how to utilize this simple tool. Then group members are able to apply their skills and put them to the test on Hemlock's parkland as they navigate around the orienteering course using a map and compass. Girl Scout Cadette and Senior Orienteering Interest Project Ages: Girl Scouts/Leaders Sessions: year-round Duration: 4 hrs Cost: See Booking Request Form         Learn the sport of orienteering while earning most of the requirements for your Orienteering Interest Project. Once you finish this 4-hour program, you will only have to complete one Technology requirement and a Service Project to earn this Interest Project.