Everyone is welcome at our first Open Event at Umstead Park on January 25, 2026. In addition to all the Orienteering courses there will be an 80m Classic course.

Take Glenwood Ave to the park entrance. Go south past the visitor center to the parking lots at the end of the road. Registration and starts will be in the large picnic shelter to the east of the parking area. (GPS = 35.871668, -78.759166)

The event starts at 11.30 am and everybody must finish by 2.30 PM.
We will have all regular courses from beginner to advanced, White through Red.

We will also have a beginners Q&A session starting at noon. 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)

Click the following button to go directly to the registration page.

Help with control pick-up would be greatly appreciated.

Vladimir and Tatyana

From January 17-24, BOK is providing an advanced Foxoring course for experienced radio orienteers. The course will be open daily from 9 AM to 4 PM. Please register only if you have completed an advanced (brown or higher) orienteering course and are familiar with operating an 80m radio receiver. Orienteers who have completed Nadia’s beginner courses are well qualified.

Foxoring is one of four event formats offered at championship Radio Orienteering competitions. It is the format most similar to traditional orienteering. Your map will indicate the approximate locations of the transmitters (“foxes”). Like a score-o, you must determine the optimum order to navigate to each one using a map and compass. The transmitters emit very weak signals, so only when you arrive close to each location shown on your map will you hear the transmitter on your receiver. Once you can hear the transmitter, you must locate its precise location by radio. Once you arrive at the fox, you will find the SI box to punch in using your finger stick. Foxoring does not use flags, so don’t expect to see any on the course! The transmitters will generally be located within about 50m of the feature indicated by the control circle on the map, but not at that feature.

This will be a “self-check-in” event. After registering, you will receive a PDF file of the course map. You will need to print the map to take with you on the course. There will be no rental receivers available on-site, so if you rent a receiver, you will need to make arrangements to pick it up and return it after your run.

All the essential information (courses, frequencies, contact phone, etc.) will be printed on your map. That information is also provided during online registration. You must register to participate.

Here are the eagerly awaited results from our fun, challenging New Year’s Day extravaganza. There was a bit of everything: forest running, quick thinking, mazes, confusion and cookies. It turns out that the bumble format was quite a challenge and the mazes required different mental involvement and concentration than our normal orienteering talents provide. While […]

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Join us again for a unique, fun experience on New Year’s Day. This time at Bond Park in Cary. We plan a mass start in the Multi-use Field 35.78342288, -78.826243093 at 11:00 am, but keep an eye on this page in case weather makes us change the start location. Be sure to arrive 30 minutes before start to pick up your map and get final instructions 15 minutes before the start.

We will be having a “short” Bumble. Quantico Orienteering has a good introduction to the concept of a bumble. https://www.qocweb.org/sites/default/files/Bumble_2024_Explanation.pdf The exciting twist to our New Year’s version of a Bumble will include a maze O for two of the windows, making for a maximum of 7 windows.

Beginners are also welcome to come out to try the Explorer course. Like a score O, find whatever controls you can. Explorers may start at 10:30am and must be done by 1pm. New orienteers coming out to try the explorer course should watch our introductory videos at the top of our newcomer information page.

For those not familiar with maze O, it’s a very small course, maybe 10m x 10m, taped off in the shape of, wait for it, a maze. You’ll have 7 or so controls and it goes faster than a sprint. Quick map reading is vital and seconds are crucial. For a visual similar to the map you’ll have, see these results from Cascade Orienteering

The rules for our combined Bumble + Maze O will be as follows:

• Everyone takes 4 or more windows of their choice.
• Everyone must do 2 mazes, which count as 2 of their total windows.
• A maze window may not be the first window taken.
• Two Mazes may not be done as back-to-back windows.
• Time limit is 90 minutes.

Registration will close at 5pm New Year’s Eve.

What an awesome three days. Besides our regulars we had RadioO people from as far away as Oregon and Maryland. There were, however, some ups and some downs. One crazy thing that caused a bunch of trouble for the results was that the SI master that synchronizes all the controls was an hour off because […]

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