Outdoor Activities: Orienteering

When you choose to do outdoor activities in Wales, orienteering is an excellent sport that is great for an adult/family event, and it also has great benefits for those looking for a team building exercise.

Adult/Family Activity:

Orienteering is an exciting outdoor adventure sport that exercises your mind and body. The aim is to navigate between checkpoints or controls marked on a special orienteering map. There is no set route so the skill and fun come from trying to find the best way to go.

At Pro-Active Adventure competitive orienteering, challenge is to complete the course in the quickest time and work out the anagram from the letters collected at each check point. Orienteering can take place anywhere, such as forests, parks, moorland, coastal areas, and hostel grounds.

Orienteering offers many benefits, but its biggest attraction is fun! It is a joy to walk and run through forests and fields armed with a compass and a map. In this thrilling chase, you must put your navigational skills to the test and navigate from point to point in unfamiliar terrain to win.

Other benefits include:

It improves our Vitamin D levels. The Vitamin D Council says “your body is designed to get the vitamin D it needs by producing it when your bare skin is exposed to sunlight”.
Candidates exposed to the natural world showed increases in self-esteem. Some have said that they felt it taught them how to take risks, unleashed their creativity and gave them a chance to exercise, develop, and discover.
Orienteering involves walking, jogging and running, often in rough terrain. All three of these activities increase aerobic capacity and cardiovascular strength.
Decisions that constantly arise. Like which way to go, left or right? Should we go around the hill or up the hill? All these decisions, along with the navigation, require thinking more than quick reactions or instinct, that is why orienteering is often called the thinking sport.

Teams have to decide how quick they can go whilst still remaining on course. “Less haste more speed”

Outdoor Activities: Orienteering

Team Building Activity:

Orienteering is an engaging and powerful team-development simulation designed to create an immediate impact on how teams work together by assessing their strengths and areas of vulnerability using a creative, experiential approach. Team members will find themselves outside of their comfort zone, taking decisions and looking for the right reference points in an unknown environment. Many different behaviours can be observed and assessed, like technical leadership VS charismatic leadership, and watch how the decisions are made and which are their premises. Orienteering Team Building is an instrument that brings the participants in a pleasant natural context where they can experience relationships, decisional processes and capacity of finding references in quickly changing environments.

Fitness:

Basic, however if there are any issues please discuss this with us so that we can ensure the activity is fully inclusive.

Other Requirements:

None

Duration:

3.5 Hours approx.

Locations Where Orienteering Is Available:

Conwy: North Wales Coast
Beechwood Court: North Wales Coast
Bryn Gwynant: Snowdonia National Park
Llanberis: Snowdonia National Park
Snowdon Ranger: Snowdonia National Park
Swallow Falls: Snowdonia National Park
Pantienion Hall: Mid Wales Coast
Wilderhope: Shropshire
Brecon Beacons
St Briavels: Forest Of Dean
Wye Valley: Forest Of Dean
Manorbier: Pembrokeshire
St Davids: Pembrokeshire

Outdoor Activities: Orienteering

Available:

All year round

What We Provide:

Maps
Compass
Initial Training

What You Will Need To Bring:

Trainers Or Trekking Boots
Waterproofs

Other activities available through Pro-Active Adventure include the list below. However, please be aware that what is available at different locations may vary, very slightly. Check on the page of your chosen location to see what is available there, or simply Contact Us on the details below for full information:

Office Mobile: 07866 630123, E-Mail: office@proactive-adventure.com