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 Regular event.
We will have an OPEN event at Umstead Park (South) on Sunday, November 3, 2024.
Everyone is welcome.
Don’t forget to register and pay here . Registrations received after 8 pm Friday (Nov 1) cannot be guaranteed a map.
The entrance of the park is off Harrison Avenue, called the Reedy Creek entrance. We start from the lower shelter, North of the parking lot.
You can start any time between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM. Make sure that you finish by 3:00 PM because we will begin clearing the courses at that time.
If you’re new to orienteering, you may want to attend our Beginner Q&A at noon. Make sure you give yourself enough time to check in and pick up your map before the Q&A. In the meantime, beginners can prepare themselves by watching our introductory videos at the top of this page.
We will have all regular courses from beginner to advanced, White through Red.
Help with control pick-up would be greatly appreciated.
Vladimir and Tatyana
We will use LIVELOX so you can see your route on the map after the event, along with everyone else on your course. LIVELOX is great because you can learn a lot about route choice, and it is fun to see how others’ choices affect their runs. The easiest way to use LIVELOX is to download the LIVELOX app to your phone. Then, when you start your course, open the app on your phone, click “Start Recording,” and then “Stop Recording” at the end of your run. Later in the day, the event will be published on livelox.com, where you can select your course for viewing. Uploading your route from your Garmin or Strava account is also possible.)
Ruth and I would like to welcome you to our house adjacent to the Birkhead Wilderness Area in the Uwharrie National Forest for a weekend of Radio Orienteering and Classic Orienteering. Below is an outline of the weekend plans. Additional details and an entry link will be forthcoming.
When:
Friday Noon – 4pm Nov 15, 2024
Saturday 9am – 4pm Nov 16, 2024
Sunday 9am – 2pm Nov 17, 2024
Control Pickup Sunday 2-4pm
Any help is greatly appreciated. The orienteering controls are needed for the following week’s Raven Rock event.
Where:
Asheboro, NC
1725 Gray Owl Road
35.6346680703153, -79.88024674672587
Directions: There is a control on our mailbox at the intersection of Hopewell Friends and Gray Owl Road. Drive 1/4 mile on Gray Owl Rd and take the first left turn onto our driveway. Drive 1/4 mile to the turnaround, and then turn around and park only on the right side (east side) of the driveway as you are heading back out.Do not drive on the grass at all! Do not park in the turnaround!
What:
Classic Orienteering White – Blue
The Courses are the same all three days
Radio Orienteering
Radio-O shares controls with orienteering so you should plan to do your Radio-O courses before doing the Orienteering courses.
There are lots of controls out there considering everything is on one map, so be sure to check the code on the control to be sure it is on your course.
Non Standard Symbols
Controls in the woods:
You are likely to see controls out there that aren’t yours. Here is what is out there
80m foxes have regular controls hanging from a BLUE ribbon 181-185 3.560 MHz
2m foxes have regular controls hanging from a RED ribbon 121-125 144.50 MHz
Orienteering controls may hang from colored ribbons or just a string. It doesn’t matter.
Sprint controls are striped poles with an SI-box on top. No flag.
SI-box labels 1F, 2F, 3F, 4F, 5F
SI-box numbers 149, 150, 151, 152, 153
FoxO controls are a black pole with an SI-box on top. No flag.
186-189 – 3.58 MHz
126-129 – 3.54 MHz
Courses:
The 1500m walk to the start gets you to a complex section of the course at the top of the second ridge mostly away from the beginner controls. Starting closer would require the extra climb on your course and would limit the time in the more complex areas.
Orienteering Courses
Course
Hours: Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4Sun 9-4
Distance m
# of Controls
Walk to Start / from Finish
White
Fri / Sat / Sun
1640
12
100 / 10
Yellow
Fri / Sat / Sun
1970
14
100 / 10
Orange
Fri / Sat / Sun
3270
11
100 / 10
Brown
Fri / Sat / Sun
3860
9
100 / 890
Green
Fri / Sat / Sun
5550
13
1500 / 10
Red
Fri / Sat / Sun
7030
17
1500 / 10
Blue
Fri / Sat / Sun
11070
21
100 / 10
Radio-O Courses
Since Radio-O isn’t much fun if you know where the foxes are, you should do any radio-O courses before any Orienteering courses.
As you all know by now OUSA is providing the advanced features of Livelox for all the clubs in the United States. What you may not know, is that BOK is one of the top clubs using Livelox this year through September:
It was a fantastic day to be in the Triangle, and racers came with positive attitudes and a ‘can-do’ spirit to tackle BOK’s first adventure race. It was a monster course that probably could have served as a ten hour event; but people only had eight hours to do their best. Even our best racers […]
BOK’s first adventure race will be on Sunday, October 20, with a mass start at 10:00 AM. This is just a reminder that if you want to participate you will need to register before Saturday, October 19 at 9:00 AM. The registration deadline for kayak rental has already passed; so if you are a late registrant, you will need to bring your own.
If you have registered for this event, please read the event description here before coming out. There is very important information throughout this page, and there will not be time to run through all of it in the pre-race briefing (at 9:45).
We have also made a small change (improvement?) to the race procedures. Instead of only seeing your map for your initial loop before the start, I will distribute the maps for loops 1-3 to everyone before the start. This will enable you to get an overview of nearly the entire race before you start, and will help inform you better about what order of loops you want to do. Note that your initial loop will still be pre-determined as part of your registration. The park opens at 8:00 AM, and I expect to be able to distribute maps as early as 8:30.
Finally, a reminder that we are hoping to use LiveLox for this event; so if you want to compare your routes with those of other racers, be sure to download the LiveLox recorder and set up an account.
Ruth and I would like to welcome you to our house adjacent to the Birkhead Wilderness Area in the Uwharrie National Forest for a weekend of Radio Orienteering and Classic Orienteering. Below is an outline of the weekend plans. Additional details and an entry link will be forthcoming. Event Notes Map Notes There are lots […]
We will have an OPEN event at Umstead Park (South) on Sunday, November 3, 2024. Everyone is welcome. Don’t forget to register and pay here . Registrations received after 8 pm Friday (Nov 1) cannot be guaranteed a map. The entrance of the park is off Harrison Avenue, called the Reedy Creek entrance. We start […]