If your Geeklings are getting tired of Geocaching, and you're looking for something a little more challenging for them, then it's time you gave some thought to Orienteering. The basic idea of the ...

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 ...

WEKIWA SPRINGS STATE PARK — Orienteering can be frustrating, especially for a middle-age guy with bad eyes and a bum knee like me. But the organizers of this meet assured me that even an old-timer ...

“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 ...

With a map tucked under his arm and a compass held out at waist level, Scott Smith of East Rowan High School twists the compass dial until the hollow, arrow-shaped indicator lines up with the red ...

It’s Geek Dad Unwired Week, so lets go on a treasure hunt. Leave the GPS behind because for Unwired Week we’re going to go old school and use a compass. Don’t have a compass? Well then head to the ...

Google Maps, MapQuest and even Waze won’t help here. The Los Angeles Orienteering Club is inviting the brave — or at least those willing to put their smartphones away for a day — to take on its ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Frisco – Missing for four days in a rugged section of the Roosevelt National Forest, Terry and Marion Jones emerged unharmed at the Big South Trailhead to ...

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 ...