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 ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Land in an unfamiliar country and race from checkpoint to checkpoint with no phone, no flights and limited funds. This is the premise ...

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, ...

Sharon Crawford is ridiculously good at seeing shades of green. For the past 30 years, the longtime Frisco local has traveled the nation and globe to compete in orienteering: a slowly growing (and ...

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 ...

Daniel Boone and I are soul mates. Every time I participate in one of Cascade Orienteering Club’s races in some heavily wooded park in the Puget Sound area, I know exactly how he felt. And it was no ...

Tramping uphill through ankle-high grass under a searing late September sun, one wonders if taking that narrow path off the main road at Nissequogue State Park in Kings Park was such a good idea, ...

Rowan Davis is a treasure hunter. He admits his attempts with a metal detector have so far yielded modest results — a few coins and some old melted cans from a mining fire. But the 8-year-old has a ...