Orienteering Training

Camp Information:

If you are interested in orienteering in Gran Canaria, then February is the month to come. Active Canaria is co-organising G-COM a 3 day orienteering race and at the same time will be offering many orienteering training opportunities, or alternatively clubs/ national teams can contact us and we ‘tailor make’ a package to suit your needs.

Our orienteering camps recognise orienteers’ need to train on maps and also their need for physical training.

On a week-long camp your time will be split between technical, physical training and of course there will be time for fun and relaxing.

Sample Itinerary 

Maps on Gran Canaria 

Our accommodation is on a newly drawn 1:5 000 sprint area(ISSOM), and is running distance from a large 1:10 000 map which was updated winter 2009. The best orienteering area is a pine forest found in the North West of the island which is 1400m above sea level. ActiveCanaria can provide planned courses on any map in Gran Canaria, and has permanent controls (red and white tape) on 2 areas.

Orienteering Training

This winter seaveral of the world´s top orienteers have choosen Gran Canaria for their "winter sun" training destination, including Øystein Kvaal Østerbø (NOR), Emil Lauri  (SWE) and Karoliina Sundberg (FIN). These top orienteers have enjoyed a several different orienteering courses (all with controls) and different trial runs (with maps provided).

Presently Active Canaria has 4 planned trainings with controls; 2 in Tamadaba (Pine forest 1400m above sea level), 2 in Maspalomas, a middle distance on a new 1:1000 map and a sprint on a new 1:5000 ISSOM map.

Active Canaria can organise single day and multi-day orienteering trips for groups.

The minimum group size is 3 and prices start from 30€/person/ day. Contact us for more details.