We will have an OPEN event at Carolina North Forest on Sunday, November 2nd, 2025. Remember that the clocks change that morning! Please make sure you register before 6pm, October 31st 2025.

The event center will be at the side of the Seawell Elementary School car park, Chapel Hill , off Homestead Rd. GPS:- 35°56’26.0″N 79°04’41.1″W . Note there will be road works on I40, Junction 266.

The event starts at 10:30 am and everybody must report to the Finish by 2.00 PM.
We will have all regular courses from beginner to expert, White through Red.

Course distances are:

• White – 1.9 km
• Yellow – 2.4 km
• Orange – 3.4 km
• Brown – 3.9 km
• Green – 5.6 km
• Red – 6.9 km

NOTE:- For those of you who think that Carolina North forest has too many distracting tracks, the expert (Brown, Green, Red) courses will run on maps without tracks (the Railroad line and roads will be marked).

If you are new to orienteering, we recommend that you check out these short videos to prepare for the event.

An Orienteering Class (Video 14:24) This class video includes the information in the following two videos:

An Orienteering Map Explained (Video 3:52)

An Orienteering Thumb Compass Explained (Video 1:26)

Entries open Mon Oct 27th

We will use Livelox so you can see your route on the map after the event along with everyone else on your course. This is great both because you can learn a lot about route choice, and fun to see how others’ choices affected their run. The easiest way to use Livelox is to download the Livelox app to your phone. Then, when you start open the app on your phone and click “Start Recording”. After the event, at 3:00pm, the event will be published on Livelox.com and you can select your “Class” which is the same as your course. Then you will be offered the event to choose so you can see your and everyone else’s routes. (You can also upload your route from your GPS watch.)

Help with control pick-up would be greatly appreciated.

Paul and Ian

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