Orienteering is the outdoor sport of navigating a designed course through the forest using only a map and compass and the Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club will be offering “Orienteering 101” Feb. 8 ...

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, ...

NEEDHAM - Bill Spierdowis double-checked his contoured map as he ambled through the Needham Town Forest on a beautiful fall afternoon with his wife and a friend. “Is this the one we crossed?’’ said ...

“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 ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. If getting lost in the woods sounds like fun to you, you’d love orienteering. The sport involves ...

I surveyed the map briefly before I plugged one end of the e-punch, a green plastic rectangle strapped to my pointer finger, into the starting checkpoint, otherwise known as a control. United with the ...

Local naturalist Mary Ann Schlegel can't coax her 12-year-old daughter, Hyla, into taking a hike with her. But when mom suggests they do an orienteering course, the girl scrambles for her sneakers. "I ...

LIKE tourists just off the bus, we stare intently at our maps, hunting for a direction. We’re not the only ones. Around us, in a brushy meadow in Topanga State Park lit golden by the early morning sun ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (April 6, 2016) -- Give Capt. Jordan Laughlin a map and a compass, and he can probably get you from Point A to Point B faster than anybody else on post. That is, if you can keep up ...

A group of young athletes from the Seattle area took home hardware in a national tournament over the weekend, but this story has nothing to do with March Madness. Members of Maple Valley’s Tahoma ...

As a Girl Scout, Sharon Crawford never left a trail. It was always safety first. Then she took up orienteering. With a map in one hand and a compass in the other, for decades Crawford has cut her own ...