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.
    • Sprint (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)
    • Fox-O (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday)
    • 2m Classic (Saturday)
    • 80m Classic (Saturday & Sunday)
• Accomodations
  • RV & Tent Camping – Zooland (6min from Gray Owl) https://zoolandfc.com/
  • Primitive Camping at Gray Owl
  • Hotels & AirB&B in Asheboro, NC
• Pizza Dinner Saturday at ~4:30
• Event Directors: Joseph and Ruth

Event Notes

Map Notes

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.

Event	Foxes	Gray OwlFrequencies	Hours: Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4Sun 9-2	Controls	Length k 5 fox / 4 fox / 3 fox
Sprint	Fast	3.560 MHz	Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4, Sun 9-2	1F, 2F, 3F, 4F, 5F 149, 150, 151, 152, 153	1 k
	Beacon	3.600 MHz	Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4, Sun 9-2	B / 180
FoxOring	126-129	3.54 MHz	Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4, Sun 9-2	126-129	3 k
	186-189	3.58 MHz	Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4, Sun 9-2	186-189
	Beacon	3.600 MHz	Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4, Sun 9-2	B / 180
80m	Foxes	3.520 MHz	Sat 9-4 Sun 9-2	181-185	5.8 / 5.4 / 3.5 k
	Beacon	3.600 MHz	Sat 9-4 Sun 9-2	B / 180
2m	Foxes	144.50 MHz	Sat 9-4	121-125	5.5 / 4.5 / 3.5 k
	Beacon	145.55 MHz	Sat 9-4	B / 180

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:

Club	Events
OCIN	35
BOK	30
GAOC	25
NEOC	21
DVOA	20
GRIZ	19
ARCTIC	19
LAOC	18
OLOU	17
TSN	16

If you want to see all the statictics on the use of Livelox you can view it here.

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 […]

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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.