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Title
RACO
Description
Orienteering is an outdoor adventure activity, which involves finding your way through unfamiliar terrain using a specially prepared map and your own common sense. It can be compared to a car rally - but on foot ! In Orienteering, you are the navigator, driver and the vehicle. You learn to read the map, measure distances, use a compass and find your way in cross-country surroundings.
Orienteering is a thinking activity, requiring both skill and physical ability. Participants leave the starting point at regular intervals and must find their way to various checkpoints (called CONTROLS), set-out at various features in the area and return to the finish, after visiting each control and "punching" a CONTROL CARD. The competitor with the shortest elapsed time is declared the winner.
Recently, EMIT, an electronic "punching" system has been introduced - where the competitor carries a small "smart card", which is used to record check-in times at each control and at the start and finish. An electronic device recepticle is found at each control point. This discards the Control Card and makes for more accurate timing and the advantage of being able to see a competitor's "split" times on each leg of the course.
