It was the last event on the week-long pre-season training camp for the Brisbane Lions held in Tasmania for the second time.

Queenstown-born coach Chris Fagan and development coach Zane Littlejohn both have lengthy history with Tasmania.

Fagan was head of coaching for UTAS Stadium tenant club Hawthorn and Littlejohn was previously coach of the North Launceston TSL premiership team.

Another regular Launceston visitor, four-time premiership player Luke Hodge also joined the fun having joined the Lions from Hawthorn and commented on the orienteering experience in his wrap-up of the final day of the camp.

Dickinson was assisted in the planning by Esk Valley Orienteering Club’s latest international coach in residence, Antonia Haga from Finland, who is an experienced orienteer having placed second in the world mountain bike orienteering championships.

The group of 48 Brisbane Lions made up four teams and took part in two team-building exercises on the lawns around the First Basin pool at Cataract Gorge, much to the pleasure of visiting tourists and locals.

The second exercise required them to quickly become familiar with the orienteer map which was used for an international event associated with the Oceania championships in January 2015, a round of the World Cup for elites from all parts of the world.

The teams of 12, split up in pairs or singles or could remain as a group of four and were required to cooperate to visit 25 controls set out on both sides of the First Basin.

At each they collected a piece of a map that had to be completed when all team members returned to base. An extra degree of difficulty was that the team was responsible for carrying an egg, with a five-minute penalty if the egg was not returned whole.

The engagement, rivalry and responsiveness to the challenge was a credit to the group at the end of an arduous training week and the coaches and footballers praised the site for the training and were generous with their thanks of the organisers and Esk Valley club members who assisted.