MAPLE VALLEY, Wash. — Orienteering is a sport that requires navigations skills using only a map and compass to go from point to another, competitors will go at full speed on unfamiliar terrain, ...

The Orienteering Club is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization promoting orienteering, map and compass education, and outdoor activity in Middle Tennessee.    They host ...

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 ...

Like most old skills, there's something deeply satisfying about getting where you want to go with the humble compass. I ...

“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 ...

Google Maps, MapQuest and even Waze won’t help here. The Los Angeles Orienteering Club is inviting the brave — or at least those willing to put their smartphones away for a day — to take on its ...

I aspire to be them, because they’re getting out in nature and getting exercise.” (Plus, she adds, sometimes the older people beat the high-school kids, “because they know exactly where they’re going.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Frisco – Missing for four days in a rugged section of the Roosevelt National Forest, Terry and Marion Jones emerged unharmed at the Big South Trailhead to ...

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 ...