Picture this: you’re with friends in an unfamiliar forest using only a map and a compass to guide you to an upcoming checkpoint. There are no cell phones or GPS gadgets to help, just good old ...

PETALUMA — This summer, Erin Schirm will take 14 teenagers to Europe for two months and coach them in competitions that draw thousands of spectators and garner substantial media coverage. Then he will ...

Graham Baird of Greeley hates running on the road, though he used to run road races. When the associate geology professor found out about orienteering, he was hooked. Orienteering combines hiking, ...

Orienteering is all about finding your way through unknown areas, which requires you to make quick decisions based on the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A new orienteering course at Locust Lake State Park in Barnesville takes visitors on a walk around ...

McMaster University researchers have found that orienteering can prevent cognitive decline caused by dementia. The sport of orienteering combines physical activity, navigational skills, and memory ...

Normally, my walks in the woods are rather mindless rambles along whichever path I or my companions pick. I take photographs of interesting trees or winter leaves that have refused to drop, which I ...

WEKIWA SPRINGS STATE PARK — Orienteering can be frustrating, especially for a middle-age guy with bad eyes and a bum knee like me. But the organizers of this meet assured me that even an old-timer ...

BETHEL — Seven young girls huddle around a colorful map of their school campus, putting into practice the navigation skills they learned in their third-grade physical education class. They dash to the ...

“OK, start!” calls the man with the clipboard, nodding toward a portable clock. That’s my cue. Compass in hand, I dash out of the starting gate and up a grassy slope to the west of Lake Balboa, on a ...