• 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)

• It is Hunting Season wear Orange
  • • I have posted a map wiith the area we are using at the closest trail head.
  • • Hunting is very unlikely in our area because no trails in our map area connect to any trail head.

• LiveLox
  • • Use the LiveLox 6 character codes in the charts below to record or upload your course to LiveLox.
  • • To view your course (and everyone else’s, use the QR code.
  • • Each RadioO course is a separate event (because of a quirk in LiveLox).
  • • All the orienteering courses are in one event and the code is specific to your course.

• Accomodations:
  • • RV & Tent Camping – Zooland (6min from Gray Owl) https://zoolandfc.com/
  • • Primitive Camping at Gray Owl
  • • Hotels & AirB&B in Asheboro, NC

• Swimming:
  • • We have an “endless pool” heated to 78F
  • • Briing a bathing suit and towel if you want to go for a swim.

• Pizza Dinner Saturday at ~4:30

• Event Directors: Joseph and Ruth

Resources for Beginners

Check out these videos. The first one is our 15 minute class. Then there are two short ones, one introducing an orienteering map, and the other how to use a Thumb Compass – which we can loan you to try out on your course.

• An Orienteering Class (Video 14:24)

• An Orienteering Map Explained (Video 3:52)

• An Orienteering Thumb Compass Explained (Video 1:26)

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 with a diagonal blue stripe hanging with an ORANGE ribbon 181-185 3.560 MHz

• 2m foxes have regular controls with a diagonal blue stripe hanging with a PINK ribbon 121-125 144.50 MHz

• Orienteering controls:
  • • Can use the Radio-O controls with the diagonal blue stripe
  • • Usually have a vertical blue stripe
  • • May hang with pink or orange ribbons or just a string. It doesn’t matter.

• Sprint controls are striped poles with an SI-box on top. No flag.

• FoxO controls are a black pole with an SI-box on top. No flag.

• The radio controls are also used on Orienteering courses

Courses:

Orienteering Courses

The long walks to the start get the green and red to more complex section of the map that isn’t used as much and 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.

I would like to thank Dave Waller for being my Course Consulant. While I have had 46 years (yikes) designing courses Dave spotted issues that I overlooked. No matter how experianced you are it is helpful for new eyes to take a look to catch ways to make the courses even better.

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. Also the radioO LiveLox replay requires a password so you won’t accidently open them by mistake. You will get the code when you finish your radioO course.

Course		Hours: Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4Sun 9-4	Distance m	# of Controls	Walk to Start / from Finish
White J6BKCR		Fri / Sat / Sun	1640	12	100 / 10
Yellow TTVDEE		Fri / Sat / Sun	1970	14	100 / 10
Orange 5UBXBQ		Fri / Sat / Sun	3270	11	100 / 10
Brown 5Q3Z3W		Fri / Sat / Sun	3860	9	100 / 890
Green E7XJKV		Fri / Sat / Sun	5550	13	1500 / 10
Red 7MCJGF		Fri / Sat / Sun	7350	17	1500 / 10
Blue HSH2KY		Fri / Sat / Sun	11070	21	100 / 10

Radio-O Courses

Use the 6 letter code to upload your course to Livelox. Use the QR-code to view everyone’s run on LiveLox. Radio-O courses will require a password to view the runs on LiveLox.

Event	Foxes	Frequencies	Hours:  Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4 Sun 9-2	Controls	Length k Foxes 5/4/3 Effective L 5/4/3
Sprint LiveLox Code D5CB2U	Slow	3.560 MHz	Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4, Sun 9-2	Label: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 SI-boxes: 144, 145, 146, 147, 148	1.1 k
	Beacon	3.600 MHz	Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4, Sun 9-2	B / 180
FoxOring LiveLox Code JQSK2T	126-129	3.54 MHz	Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4, Sun 9-2	126, 127, 128, 129 3, 4, 3f, 4f	2.8 k 3.9 EL
	186-189	3.58 MHz	Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4, Sun 9-2	186, 187, 188, 189 5, 6, 5f, 6f
	Beacon	3.600 MHz	Fri 12-4, Sat 9-4, Sun 9-2	B / 180
80m LiveLox Code 5XVAW3	Foxes	3.520 MHz	Sat 9-4 Sun 9-2	181-185	5.8/4.4/3.6 k 7.6/5.8/5.1 EL
	Beacon	3.600 MHz	Sat 9-4 Sun 9-2	B / 180
2m LiveLox Code NCGYXJ	Foxes	144.50 MHz	Sat 9-4	121-125	5.3 / 4.5 / 3.4 k 6.9/ 5.9/4.5 EL
	Beacon	145.55 MHz	Sat 9-4	B / 180