Cost: $60 for non-members, $45 for members. Members, please check your e-newsletter for your discount code. Cost of admission includes a sandwich lunch and compass. Proceeds go to to trail maintenance and water testing at Turkey Creek Nature Preserve.

• Learn what Orienteering ‘is’ and ‘is not’.

• Learn how to use your compass.

• Do you know how to read a terrain map? You will after this class.

• Learn and practice techniques to help you make a route choice and stick to it.

Anne Mathews, in partnership with The Vulcan Orienteering Club, is offering a Beginning Orienteering Workshop at Turkey Creek Nature Preserve. It is open to anyone interested in roaming the woods.

Class starts at 8:30 am and will include three hours of classroom training, 90 minutes of practice, and a two-hour competition.

If registering by check, please make the check out to the Jefferson County Greenways Foundation and mail to: 1214 81st St S, Birmingham, AL 35206. Please provide the following information with the check: Name, Age, Email, Phone Number, Any food allergies, If you’ve attended an orienteering meet before, If so, where?

Orienteering is the sport of navigation, using a highly detailed map. Whether someone is an experienced hiker, competitive runner, or a family or group out for an activity in a park, this sport helps improve navigation skills each time.

Orienteering can gradually build map-reading skills from exploring a local city park full of obvious structures to navigating remote terrain with few, if any, man-made features.