The Northeast Ohio Orienteering Club recently announced it is inviting outdoor enthusiasts to experience orienteering at the 2026 Masters Nationals and Corn Maze Challenge, set for Sept 25-27 with ...

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 ...

Orienteering is the outdoor sport of navigating a designed course through the forest using only a map and compass and the Northeastern Ohio Orienteering Club will be offering “Orienteering 101” Feb. 8 ...

“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 ...

You will get lost. That is part of orienteering, a race where you have to read the wavy contour lines of a map and pick your way along natural terrain until you find a hallowed "control point," then ...

A 21st-century version of orienteering, geocachers rely on a GPS device, such as a smartphone, to discover waterproof containers known as caches. These are craftily hidden by other geocachers around ...

The last time many of us took a compass and a map into the middle of nowhere and plotted a route back to camp was when we were in Scouts or Guides. Geoff Hollins introduces the sport of Orienteering - ...