Navigating and avoiding getting lost is a bottom-line requirement for spending time in the wilderness. It’s also a sport and a source of competition. We’ll learn about orienteering, and along the way ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (April 6, 2016) -- Give Capt. Jordan Laughlin a map and a compass, and he can probably get you from Point A to Point B faster than anybody else on post. That is, if you can keep up ...

The sport of orienteering, which simultaneously combines exercise with challenging navigation, may be better for the brain than exercise alone, according to new research from kinesiologists at ...

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 ...

The sport of orienteering, which draws on athleticism, navigational skills and memory, could be useful as an intervention or preventive measure to fight cognitive decline related to dementia, ...

Morehead State University will host the first round of the Flying Pig XXV, an orienteering event attracting hundreds of competitors from around the country. The event takes place on Friday, March 24.

“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 ...

Rowan Davis is a treasure hunter. He admits his attempts with a metal detector have so far yielded modest results — a few coins and some old melted cans from a mining fire. But the 8-year-old has a ...

Emma Waddington, lead author of the study, with Jennifer Heisz, Canada Research Chair in Brain Health and Aging at McMaster who supervised the research. Hamilton, ON, May 27,2024 – The sport of ...