On Saturday, March 26, 2022, from 9:00 to 10:30 AM, members of the Greater Phoenix Orienteering Club and the City of Peoria Parks and Recreation Department will present a clinic teaching basic navigation concepts used in orienteering. The clinic is offered outdoors at Paloma Park, just east of the intersection of Lake Pleasant Parkway and Dixileta Road in Peoria. (see directions). Participants will learn important techniques to navigate with a map and compass. While GPS receivers provide an easy way for people to navigate, conditions sometimes make the GPS units unreliable or unusable (navigating in deep canyons, dead batteries, etc.) Navigation techniques used in orienteering are an invaluable complement to navigating with a GPS receiver.
Additional information concerning our Beginner’s Orienteering Training is found here:

NOTE: PRE-REGISTRATION/PRE_PAYMENT is REQUIRED.
Pre-Registration is open until Thursday, March 24th at 11:59 PM. If you’d like to join us for the clinic, please use the above link below. The techniques you’ll learn and practice during the clinic are important tools in navigating in unknown terrain.

Schedule
Beginner’s class starts…………………………………………………..9:00am
Beginner’s class ends…………………………………………………..10:30am

What to Bring
Compass. We prefer that participants bring their own compass. This will allow them to learn techniques during the training, then practice the techniques further at home. We will provide compasses to those who are not able to bring their own.