“Orienteering is often called cunning running or the thinking man’s running,” he said. Dady got into orienteering from other athletic pursuits. He was a biathlete in the sport that combines skiing 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 ...

“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 ...

You’re deep in the forest, trying to figure out your way, and you don’t have your phone. All you have is a map, which is covered with hieroglyphics, and an old-fashioned compass. It might sound like a ...