Orienteering on Madison Cascades Trail

If you like orienteering, try this with your compass.  This course follows the Madison Cascades trail so don’t follow a direction that leads you off the trail.  This is for those who want to practice orienteering.  It is not a bushwhacking trail for experts.  Practice determining the distance of your “pace”.  Train it to be 5 feet and your life will be easier. I used FEET for distances not steps or paces.

Good luck!

In front of the Madison Historical Society building there is a commemorative plaque.  Look to the left and see a hiking trail sign and stand near it.

On a compass bearing of—-degrees:	Go this many feet:	To a:
100	125	Guest book
112	200	Base of a rise.  Stop and look north to see an old well
112	45	Ash tree on your left
162	265	Through low pines to a huge white pine
120	225	Down hill, cross a brook, stop as trail bears right. Look left, see 5” diameter beech tree
180	200	Pile of rocks on left of trail
180	145	Descend to a double maple on RT
137	42	Bear left
95	250	4 white pines on RT
55-70	185-190	Up a small hill along a ridge to two white pines on L & R
70	160	Big white pine on RT with pinecones at the bottom
70	75	To upturned birch and White Pine
75-80	70	4 inch maple on RT with moss at the bottom
40-45	175	White pine with hiking symbol
60	124	Two inch hemlock on RT
28	108	3 inch hemlock on RT
80	25	24 inch red pine on RT
80	110	6 inch balsam fir
120	185	Pine with hike symbol on the RT
		Descend RT to cascades
87	85	White pine on left
65	40	Red painted boundary tree BARBED WIRE
105	20	Double hemlock
260	125	Back to where trail descends to cascades