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 ...

Orienteering gear is similar to what any outdoorsman would need in the wilderness. If you're unfamiliar with the sport, you creatively navigate challenging terrain, hitting predetermined checkpoints, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Tramping uphill through ankle-high grass under a searing late September sun, one wonders if taking that narrow path off the main road at Nissequogue State Park in Kings Park was such a good idea, ...

Land in an unfamiliar country and race from checkpoint to checkpoint with no phone, no flights and limited funds. This is the premise of the BBC’s Race Across the World, now in its fifth season and ...