(No, we’re not talking about Google Maps.) Welcome to orienteering. But, if you’ve never tried it before, how do you plot your entry into orienteering? You’d be forgiven for lacking ...

Participants navigated between checkpoints using orienteering maps, promoting mental and physical fitness. OFI chairman Jayant Misra highlighted the sport's benefits for rescue operations.

What is orienteering? Orienteering combines map and compass reading with exercise. Competitors (“orienteers”) race against a clock to reach checkpoints in outdoor settings that can range from ...

“Wait,” another girl says, examining her map. “I don’t think it’s over here.” The girls run down a path through the trees, hoping to find the next checkpoint in the orienteering course ...

The rhyme describing how to position the compass is heard repeatedly as volunteers from the Carolina Orienteering Klubb (COK) in Charlotte and JROTC leaders teach map and compass skills.

"It is a cross-country race for map junkies," another explained. Orienteering traces its origins to Sweden in the early 1900s, where it was employed as a military training exercise. Americans ...

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 ...