We had a nice day of radio-orienteering at Carolina North Forest. We had ten participants come out to search for foxes. The rain finally stopped the day before. The ground was still pretty wet but the temperature was wonderful.

We have pictures from the event here.

It was down-sized 80m classic. Shorter distances. No start or finish shoot. No beginner foxoring. But still much fun.

The longest course was shortened a bit compared to the announcement, only 4.4 km. We had a remote start which I think was super handy. CNF is definitely large enough for a fun ARDF course but the lake and the airport make it difficult to use the area effectively. Putting the start north of the lake, we were able to get much better use the available area. The closest control to the start was fox 1 and it was the obvious first choice. Going counter clockwise, the obvious next bearing was to fox 5. But it was the furthest one out and fox 3 would be pretty close on the way to fox 5. This led to an interesting problem. Go for fox 3 as it gets close, or wait since it’s probably on the way to the homing beacon. We had many fun post-event conversations about that problem. Overall, everyone said they like the course, which is always wonderful for the course designer.

Carolina North Forest, 31 May 2020, Results

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Carolina North Forest, 31 May 2020, Split times

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