Camp Karankawa Orienteering Course

This is a great orienteering course for scouts to tryout their skills. Before you get started don’t forget to carry plenty of water and tell your scout leder what your are doing.

Where to get started?

Go to the covered Pavilion (#13 on camp map) near the Leaders Lodge and Dining Hall. Calibrate our pace using the pavilion foundation. The foundations 80′ x 80′. For instance, if it takes you 32 paces to walk the 80′ across the pavilion, then your pace is 2.5′ per step (80/32=2.5). Record your pace. You will need if for the orienteering course.

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Height Estimating

Got to the totem pole (#15 on camp map) near the pavilion and measure the height of the totem pole using both the Tree Felling method and the Pencil method. Record both measurements.

Height measured by the Tree Felling method =                                       

Height measured by the Pencil method =                                       

Orienteering Course

• Start at the base of the totem pole (#15 on camp map). Travel on a 70-degree bearing for 85′ until you reach the for in the road.
• Start in the middle of the fork, travel approximately 700′ down the left fork. Your initial bearing will be approximately 120-degrees. Stop when you come to a second fork located about 700′ from your last starting point.
• Starting in the middle of the fork, travel approximately 225′ down the left fork. Your initial bearing will be approximately 40-degrees. Stop when you pass a long row of pine trees located about 225′ from your last starting point. The row of pine trees runs at a 300-degree bearing from east to west.
• Starting in the middle of the road, travel at a 310-degree bearing for 250′ across the grass field.
• Shot a new bearing of 20-degrees and ravel 380′ until you are standing in the “gap” between two trees.
• Starting in the “gap” shoot a new bearing of 30-degrees and travel 100′.
• Shoot a new bearing of 56-degrees and travel 205′ to the gap between the flagpoles.
• Starting between the flagpoles, shoot a new bearing of 80-degrees and travel 195′ past the “house” and to the middle of the road.
• Standing in the middle of the road and using an initial bearing of 90-degrees travel approximately 140′ until you reach the fork in the road.
• Starting in the middle of the fork, travel approximately 600′ down the right fork. Your initial bearing will be approximately 60-degrees. Follow the curve of the road and stop after you have traveled 600′.
• Shoot a new bearing of 160-degrees and travel 230′ to the “flagpole”.
• Shot a new bearing of 260-degrees and travel 260′ to the fare end of the “bridge”.
• Standing at the end of the bridge, shoot a new bearing of 228-degrees and travel 580′ to the eastern most corner of the “tower fence”.
• Standing at the corner fence post, shot a new bearing of 180-degrees and travel 360′ to the “house”.
• Standing at the “house” shoot a new bearing of 240-degrees and travel 140′ to the near corner of the “fence”.
• Starting at the fence, follow the fence line west to the end of the fence. This is approximately 400′.
• Starting at the corner of the fence, find the trail which heads of on an initial bearing of about 200 to 220-degrees. Follow the trail for about 460′ past the “brown house” and to the edge of the creek.
• Step over the creek using the “concrete path”.
• Starting at the other edge of “the creek”, continue down, the trail on an initial bearing of 210 degrees for 280′. You will stop near a fork in the trail.
• Shoot a new bearing of 230-degrees and travel 315′ past the “house” to the “flagpole”.
• Starting at the “flagpole” shoot a bearing of 340-degrees and travel 150′.
• Shoot a new bear of 270-degrees and travel 70′.

Where are you now?                                                                                                     

How far did you walk? Feet =                                         Miles =