iOS ships with a basic compass that you can use to find your basic heading when driving or hiking. It's not as robust as some third-party orienteering apps, but it will work in a pinch when these ...

Even in an age of GPS devices and smartphones, about 20 people attended an orienteering class Sunday afternoon to return to the basics. In the class, which is given about four times in November at the ...

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 the applause of family and friends last ...

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Monroe County Environmental Education Center will offer an orienteering program at 10 a.m. Saturday at the center, 8050 Running Valley Road, Bartonsville. Roger Spotts, education coordinator, will ...

“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 ...

As staff at Harris Lake County Park in southwestern Wake County looked for ways to keep visitors engaged during the pandemic last year, they dusted off an orienteering trail that an Eagle Scout ...

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 ...

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 ...