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, ...

The sport of orienteering is the survival of the fittest. Participants in meets compete against the clock with only a compass, topographical map and their senses as a guide. An orienteering meet is ...

I surveyed the map briefly before I plugged one end of the e-punch, a green plastic rectangle strapped to my pointer finger, into the starting checkpoint, otherwise known as a control. United with the ...

Laura Moss is a journalist with more than 15 years of experience writing about science, nature, culture, and the environment. Most people tend to avoid wandering into the woods or unfamiliar terrain, ...

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 ...

Aiming off: To deliberately aim to one side of a control or feature so that you know which way to turn upon hitting the feature before seeing the control. Attack point: An obvious feature near the ...

With more than a century of history, the modern sport of orienteering has a language all its own. Here are a few key terms one might encounter while preparing a route or competing on a course: Attack ...

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 ...

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