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Backwoods Orienteering Klub, founded November 15, 1978 sponsors events and teaches orienteering in the North Carolina piedmont, around Raleigh, NC.

We invite you to try orienteering with us. Everyone is welcome at all our events. We always offer beginning, intermediate, advanced and expert courses (routes through the woods) at every event.

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June 28th, 2009

Lake Johnson Summer Sprint

The day went well, we got in and out before it got hot. Vladimir, Donald, and Josef led on Sprint A. Vladmir and Donald traded places for first in Sprint B. Actually Joseph squeeked in one second ahead of First place, however he had to withdraw because he set the courses. The results follow…

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June 17th, 2009

Umstead North – June 7, 2009

The weather for the meet was sunny and a bit on the warm side. We had a decent turn out for the regular courses…though an adventure race held on Saturday kept attendance down for the advance courses. Unfortunately, we struggled with a couple of issues during the event…1) we ran out of registration forms, 2) we ran out of electronic punches (which really only effected the red course) and 3) there were three misplaced controls…one on the orange course and two on the red course (despite having flagged the control placement with tape). Kudos (I think) to the orange course runners who found the misplaced control in a ditch about 200m to the SW. I’m still trying to determine where the two misplaced red controls were actually placed. For both courses, I tried to give credit for the misplaced controls, which in turn meant compiling the results by hand. So, if you notice an error please let me know I will update accordingly.

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May 17th, 2009

17 May 2009 Umstead South Results Posted

The results of this slightly soggy event have been posted.

May 4th, 2009

05-03-2009 Results

Not many people came to the event, but those who did enjoyed good warm (not too hot) weather and some unique orienteering challenges. 9 out of 32 controls were not printed on the map and only their legends could had been used to located them (or luck). As it appeared, luck didn’t play such a [...]

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April 29th, 2009

May 3. Schenck Forest. Score-O and more.

This event is for advanced orienteers (BOK members who have completed a brown, green, or red course). Don’t forget, you must pre-register. The event will consist of a Score-O course with elements of Treasure Hunting :)

Due to an unusual format of the course the start window will be from 12:00 to 1:30, so we don’t get finishers before everybody starts. There will be 1 hour and 1 hour 30 minutes time limit options. Start window for 1 hour time limit option will be from 12:30 till 1:30.

Parking outside of the gate (as usual). No dogs are allowed (even on a leash).