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 ...

You’re running through the woods, a map in your hand. A compass points direction as you race the clock, looking for hidden flags. This is orienteering, a sport of quick thinking and backwoods ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. It's just nice to be out in the forest, not just running around a track or running on the roads. I just ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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As I prepare for a long season of backpacking, orienteering, adventure racing and general outdoors exploration, maps are on my mind. They’re also sprawled out on my dining room table, marked up, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nashville Orienteering Club is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization promoting orienteering, map and compass education, ...

In early 2018, at Balmoral in Royal Deeside, the crème de la crème battled it out for the British Orienteering Championships — not just a test of physical ability but of mental dexterity as well.