• In orienteering, participants choose routes between points marked on a highly detailed map; there are a dozen or so points on an advanced course. • Each point is called a “control.” It’s a distinct ...

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 ...

LIKE tourists just off the bus, we stare intently at our maps, hunting for a direction. We’re not the only ones. Around us, in a brushy meadow in Topanga State Park lit golden by the early morning sun ...

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 ...

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 ...