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 ...

PETALUMA — This summer, Erin Schirm will take 14 teenagers to Europe for two months and coach them in competitions that draw thousands of spectators and garner substantial media coverage. Then he will ...

Graham Baird of Greeley hates running on the road, though he used to run road races. When the associate geology professor found out about orienteering, he was hooked. Orienteering combines hiking, ...

The five-day event was hosted by The Big 5, in collaboration with volunteers and is also known as Big 5 O-Week, which takes ...

Sharon Crawford is ridiculously good at seeing shades of green. For the past 30 years, the longtime Frisco local has traveled the nation and globe to compete in orienteering: a slowly growing (and ...