CROSS RIVER – There's not much one could consider "elderly" about Ruth Leggett, who is fast approaching 90 years old. Especially considering she's a devoted orienteer. “She used her sticks to beat the ...

Orienteering has actually only been a sport in Australia since 1969, although it was originally developed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago. Scandinavia remains the spiritual home of orienteering, and ...

EVERYONE OCCASIONALLY feels foggy about which way to go in the woods. Especially when an actual fog descends to mask landmarks. However, at a Bay Area orienteering meet, you can discover that it is ...

The sport of orienteering is the survival of the fittest. Participants in meets compete against the clock with only a compass, topographical map and their senses as a guide. An orienteering meet is ...

Dee Boeck is quite a runner. Boeck, president of local club Run Lawrence, has been running competitively for close to three decades and has more age-group victories than even she probably can count.

“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 ...

British Orienteering, external can help you find a club nearby. You can also learn more from Scottish Orienteering, external, the Welsh Orienteering Association, external, and the NI Orienteering ...

Barbara Sleight's obituary called her “a zealous participant, mapmaker, course setter, instructor and organizer” in the sport of orienteering.

If getting lost in the woods sounds like fun to you, you’d love orienteering. The sport involves navigating through unfamiliar terrain, often in a forest, to locations circled on a detailed ...

For Deborah Humiston, orienteering parallels real life. "It's not about winning or losing," said the Exeter-based orienteer. "It's what happens along the way. It's the process that matters, not the ...