Sep 26 2026
I love orienteering and I think it’s a great Scout activity. It is fun, it is like a big treasure hunt and you get to be outside. This year the Scout WC Orienteering competition was held at Bloemendal Wine Estate near Durbanville and it was the 3rd one that I have competed in. PenOC (Peninsula …
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Oct 06 2025
1st Claremont entered four teams for orienteering this year which was held at a wine farm near Franschoek. The four teams were: Orienteering is running around following a map to look for checkpoints and involves running through bushes, streams, and up over hills. It’s generally very fun. The aim of it is to find control …
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Oct 19 2021
Going into the competition I had no idea what I was in for as it was my first orienteering competition. Although I had done map work and had taken bearings before during my years at scouts, I still didn’t know what we were going to need to do in this competition. We arrived at the …
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Sep 15 2015
For the first time in 3 years we entered the Regional Orienteering competition which this year was held at Century City. We entered 4 junior teams and 2 senior teams and were certainly one of the biggest troops present. The competition required, rather disappointingly, minimal map work and relied more on physical fitness than on …
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