Orienteering Badge at WILDE Adventure Summer Camp
Read the map, follow the bearing, and find every checkpoint across Kimbercote's 100 acres.
The Orienteering Badge is your map-and-compass credential — proof you can find your way through real backcountry, not just follow a marked trail. You'll learn to read terrain, hold a bearing, and lead your crew from checkpoint to checkpoint. Earn it across three levels, from your first map to a full course at Kimbercote.
Skills you’ll actually earn
- Reading a topographic map
- Taking and following a compass bearing
- Route-finding across real terrain
- Finding checkpoints as a crew
- Pacing and judging distance
- Staying oriented in the backcountry
Put in the work
Earn the Orienteering Badge by working through three levels with your instructor and crew. You'll start by learning to read a map and orient your compass, then take real bearings and pace out distance on Kimbercote's trails. To level up, you'll lead your crew to find a set of checkpoints across the 100 acres — map in one hand, compass in the other.
Each level builds on the last. Nail the basics, prove them on the ground, then put it all together on a full course where the map is the only thing showing you the way.
Level up, one rung at a time
- 1Map & Compass Basics
- 2Bearings on the Trail
- 3Lead the Course
You get to disappear into 100 acres of forest with a map and a compass and actually find your way out. That's a real explorer skill — and it's yours once you earn it.
See you on the trail,
The WILDE crew
Safety, handled
- All route-finding happens in small, supervised groups led by trained instructors who know Kimbercote's terrain.
- Campers stay within defined, instructor-checked boundaries on the property — no one navigates off-area alone.
- Instructors carry maps, a means of communication, and a head count throughout every activity.
- Checkpoint courses are walked and assessed by staff before campers run them, with clear start and finish points.
