I’ll have to find my way there by map. I’m one of about 100 local adventure seekers who have gathered at the Encino park on a cloudy mid-April morning to take part in orienteering, a ...

An orienteering meet is like a backwoods treasure hunt. Participants are given a map of the forest, jungle, mountainside or whatever terrain they must trek-and sometimes […] Skip to content ...

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… ...

Terrain on orienteering courses varies, depending on the level of competition. For example, an advanced course, which is usually only tackled by expert navigators, might have markers deep in the ...

Orienteering requires map, compass and clues. Patti Singer @PattiSingerRoc. ... Freile and I opted for the level 2 course, needing to find at least five of 12 controls in any order.

The group Orienteering USA describes the orienteering course this way: “On orienteering maps, a course consists of a triangle, circles, a double circle and sometimes connecting lines all in purple.

Erin Schirm of Petaluma, center, points out the direction of travel to his neices Rya Spear, left, Scarlett Spear, and Ruby Modica, and Lorena Perez during an orienteering course set up by the Bay ...

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.

With more than a century of history, the modern sport of orienteering has a language all its own. Here are a few key terms one might encounter while preparing a route or competing on a course ...

Michele DeMaris, Bruce Englund and Holly Crancer, from left, check their maps while looking for the next course marker during a Grizzly Orienteering workshop last week in Pattee Canyon.

THE first permanent orienteering course in Richmondshire will be opened at Catterick Garrison next weekend. Cleveland Orienteering Klub has been talking to the district council for two years about ...