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 ...

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 ...

About 500 people will be scurrying around Lakewood’s Fort Steilacoom Park on Sunday morning (March 6), finding their way from target to target using just a map and compass. Some will be kids. Some ...

You will get lost. That is part of orienteering, a race where you have to read the wavy contour lines of a map and pick your way along natural terrain until you find a hallowed "control point," then ...

Donna DeLuca has discovered that getting lost in the woods can be good for you-and the kids, too. Like a growing number of northwest and west suburban sports enthusiasts, the Rolling Meadows resident ...

Sometimes finding your way can be a way of finding fun. Such were the findings of dozens of Missoulians last week in the hillsides above Pattee Creek who turned out for Grizzly Orienteering’s third ...