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Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 04:02:45 No.2661775 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2661778 >>2661799 >>2661893 >>2661899 >>2663306 >>2663442 >>2665000 >>2666626 >>2666628

Redpill me on orienteering. It seems delightfully autistic but that would mean it attracts weirdos. Is military style land nav better?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 04:08:05 No.2661777 Report

Quoted By: >>2661870 >>2661946 >>2662198

It was my favorite activity for gym class in elementary school

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 04:26:05 No.2661778 Report

Quoted By: >>2661799

>>2661775
Orienteering is good, but the distances are shorter than military land nav. It's a good exercise though and it will help you get used to walking through the woods and finding waypoints. I'm not sure how to practice land nav outside of orienteering.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 05:28:13 No.2661789 Report

Quoted By: >>2661799 >>2661871 >>2661963

just become a surveyor and get paid to do it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 06:01:34 No.2661799 Report

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>>2661775
You lack the mental capacity--stick to the GPS.
>>2661778
You pick a place and go there. It's pretty straight forward really.
>>2661789
Surveyors do more code compliance and paperwork than surveying.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 12:44:00 No.2661870 Report

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>>2661777
Checked.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 12:56:59 No.2661871 Report

Quoted By: >>2663330

>>2661789
Do surveyors make a livable wage?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 13:42:00 No.2661893 Report

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>>2661775
Orienteering was a merit badge I got sometime in the mid-90's.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 13:55:43 No.2661899 Report

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>>2661775
>It seems delightfully autistic
It is

>but that would mean it attracts weirdos
It may

Chances are, you won't run into any weirdos if you're orienteering deep enough in the woods

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 16:40:38 No.2661937 Report

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Great fun when it's also a race through sparsely wooded/fairly open and hilly country. Open enough to run in but not so open that it doesn't restrict your view of the surrounding landscape quite a lot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 17:16:09 No.2661946 Report

Quoted By: >>2661949

>>2661777
i understand that these days they dont even teach orienteering or skiing in middle school
there are now adult people who have never held a compass in their hands or put on a pair of skis on their lives and rely on youtube to teach them how to do these things

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 17:28:48 No.2661949 Report

Quoted By: >>2661954 >>2661956 >>2663440

>>2661946
>skiing
where did you grow up wtf

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 17:39:46 No.2661954 Report

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>>2661949
Probably in some richfag or upper middle-class suburb. I grew up and went to school in an industrial, working-class suburb where kids skateboarded but never skied or snowboarded. Skiing was what the snooty upper classes did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 17:41:57 No.2661956 Report

Quoted By: >>2662400

>>2661949
Finland and most of our winter gym classes consisted of skiing in one way or the another, sometimes ski orienteering sometimes ski polo or skiing competitions etc
granted this was 30 years ago but what ive gathered it was pretty basic everywhere if you dont count big city schools who had to take the bus to the nearest ski track and it was like a special class they did every now and then

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Oct 2023 17:56:31 No.2661963 Report

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>>2661789
If you do, become a field guy. Not the registered surveyor type who gets crammed in an office 10 hours a day.
Either way, most of them just use gps/robotic total stations with a tablet and shoot a bunch of points these days. Then the office chump connects the dots in cad. For layout they do the same thing in reverse. Not really any actual orienteering anymore

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Nov 2023 14:06:06 No.2662198 Report

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>>2661777
Based. Was my favourite in Upper School too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 Nov 2023 03:33:24 No.2662400 Report

Quoted By: >>2662412 >>2663383 >>2666632

>>2661956
This americans don't get how bad their edumaction is. We got taught this kind of thing in my country also. Prior to the age of 15 at my point.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 Nov 2023 04:57:28 No.2662412 Report

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>>2662400
Thats why we invented the internet and spaceflight

So GPS would make you faggots obsolete

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 Nov 2023 09:23:38 No.2662439 Report

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>>2662412
what do you mean? Internet wasn't invented in the US and for spaceflight you literally had a nazi for that

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 05 Nov 2023 09:27:33 No.2663306 Report

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>>2661775
It's actually full of normies, at least where I live

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Nov 2023 12:48:57 No.2663330 Report

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>>2661871
Like most jobs today, no, no they do not unless youre a boomer whose been doing it for 40 years or own your own business. Until we get the jews and greedy whites out of our financial system, they will further enslave us every year with their central banking currency cattle scam

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Nov 2023 15:49:17 No.2663383 Report

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>>2662400
The older I get the more I become acutely aware of how shit our education is. I feel for my friends and classmates in HS who were not college type guys who got completely abandoned and denigrated by our education system for not being suited to a college path. Most found their way into trades and are doing fine, but they couldve been helped along more without the humiliation of being treated like a dumb kid their last couple years of high school.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Nov 2023 18:11:58 No.2663440 Report

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>>2661949
My school used to x-country skiing every winter. I live in New England and not from a richfag area.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Nov 2023 18:18:03 No.2663442 Report

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>>2661775
This is what playing day z is like

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Nov 2023 00:07:51 No.2665000 Report

Quoted By: >>2665340

>>2661775
I remember it as a boring but unique part of PE

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Nov 2023 22:12:58 No.2665340 Report

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>>2665000
was probably boring because you had to use baby level maps

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 05:26:00 No.2666626 Report

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>>2661775
>Is military style land nav better
It's the exact same except in a specified timeline carrying more weight.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 05:33:31 No.2666628 Report

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>>2661775
>military style land nav
yea just get in vicinity of your checkpoint while carrying 50kg then box around for 3 hours before it comes over the radio that staff forgot to place your checkpoint.

if you want a sport/group/competition, then do rogaining/orienteering

if you want to get better at navigation, then just pick a random point on a map, try get there, then once you think you are there check with a gps to see how close you were and what you fucked up on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 13 Nov 2023 06:25:21 No.2666632 Report

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>>2662400
>>2663383
>America bad because they don't teach skiing

Ok

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