Orienteering Map Reading Essentials

Colours, contours and control circles — the language every orienteering map is written in. Seven A4 pages for your first one or two seasons. Works with any ISOM or ISSprOM map, anywhere.

What's inside

• The five map colours and what each one is allowed to mean
• The three shapes you must recognise: hill, spur, re-entrant
• The same slope, seen from the side — how contours become ground
• Thumbing the map: fold, orient, thumb
• Distance, scale, and pace counting on 1:10,000 and sprint maps
• The three course symbols: start, control, finish
• Six working pages, three drills, one checklist

Who it's for

New club members, parents learning the map their kids already run, and anyone who still treats brown lines as decoration. Written so you can take it to a local park the same afternoon.

Format

• Instant PDF download
• A4, 7 pages, first edition
• Print it or keep it on a phone at the start