hobby #226
Foot Orienteering
The competitive navigation sport: given a detailed topographic map and a compass, find a sequence of control points across varied terrain as fast as possible. It rewards map-reading, precise compass work, terrain association, pace counting, and — above all — route choice, the on-the-run optimization of picking the fastest line between controls rather than the shortest.
Aug 17 8:58 PM #226 3 min Sixty-Two Paces That Lied on the Third Hill
Foot OrienteeringThe flag was not at the third reentrant. My compass was right, my counting was rigorous, and I was two hundred metres from where I was certain I stood.
code-a-day tied to this hobby
- The Problem That Stole Its Name From a Sport The Orienteering Problem (greedy heuristic)