“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 ...

With a map tucked under his arm and a compass held out at waist level, Scott Smith of East Rowan High School twists the compass dial until the hollow, arrow-shaped indicator lines up with the red ...

Google Maps, MapQuest and even Waze won’t help here. The Los Angeles Orienteering Club is inviting the brave — or at least those willing to put their smartphones away for a day — to take on its ...