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 ...

When hundreds of runners sprinted into the night at Kendal Mountain Festival 2025 – maps in hand, headtorches blazing, hearts thumping – they weren’t just racing. They were scheming, plotting, ...

When you go for a run, you need a supportive pair of running shoes, some comfortable, sweat-wicking kit and perhaps a GPS running watch if you want to track your stats. You’ll likely follow a known, ...

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, ...

Researchers studied orienteering, an outdoor sport that exercises mind and body and can also train the brain, helping fight cognitive decline. The aim of orienteering is to navigate between ...

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, ...

Carson’s Gracie Shane placed third in the Junior Varsity Female category, while Anna Shane secured seventh in the Varsity ...

Orienteering is a purist’s adventure — navigating the country’s harshest terrains with just a map and compass, and the will to find the finish line. Two paths diverge in a muddy wood, and the first ...

A group of young athletes from the Seattle area took home hardware in a national tournament over the weekend, but this story has nothing to do with March Madness. Members of Maple Valley’s Tahoma ...

Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) earned an impressive eighth-place overall finish at the Navy’s National ...