Who: All BOK Members What 2014 Annual Meeting When: October 29, 2014 – 6:00 dinner, 7:00 meeting Where: 904 Dorothea Drive, Raleigh, NC Our meeting starts with a deep dish Sicilian Pizza from Piccola Italia at 6:00. At 7:00 pm the business meeting starts. Please register for the meeting on the website so we can buy […]
Read MoreBirkhead International ARDF Competition July 20 – 23, 2014 These are the results from the 4 competitions we had in the Uwharrie National Forest. This was a very successful cooperative event with the Guangzhou Radio Club. One of the highlights of the event was how well we worked together and our declaration to become Sister […]
Read MoreYou may have noticed that no one has stepped forward to be the Event Director for the June 1 event at Umstead South. We are putting together a group of people to run this event. The time and place have been approved by the park, and here is how the jobs are distributed so far. […]
Read MoreWe had perfect weather for the Mother’s Day Sprint at Lake Johnson and we started early to get ahead of the heat. Ruth designed the courses so the pace would be fast. The difficulty was mostly Orange and Vladimir topped the speed at 8:20 per K for the best run of the event. We started […]
Read MoreWe had a remote start for the advanced courses with a 2k walk to the start/finish. This allowed us to use a rarely used part of the park. We lucked out on the weather, because the forecast called for rain/snow, but the front slowed down and we had perfect weather. The sun even came out […]
Read MoreUmstead Park has added a requirement to our permit that we may only have 100 people at an Umstead North event and 120 at an Umstead South event. To make sure that we don’t go over our numbers we will have advanced registration for Umstead Regular Events. We will try and keep the number of […]
Read MoreBOK purchased an iPad mini so we could use the orienteering and ARDF software “Map&Compass” to help with course setting. I tried it out while setting the courses for our upcoming Feb 9 event at Umstead. The bottom line is: This tool makes course setting significantly easier and will give “first time” course setters the […]
Read MoreWe will have an early start for this event. Starts are from 10-12 and the course closes at 1pm. You must pre-register for the event, and you must be a BOK member and have successfully completed a Brown or above course.
Read MoreCalendar Google Calendar was updated with our calendar. Dates must be confirmed with the various parks. We still need event directors for Dec 15, 2013 Advanced June 1, 2014 Regular September 28, 2014 Regular If you would like to volunteer but don’t feel confident, let any event director know and you can start out helping. […]
Read MoreBOK club members have a new added benefit of membership: a free orienteering app download! The app is designed to help with course design, setting and picking up controls, and recording and analyzing your competition results. The Map-n-Compass app is available in the App Store. The app is priced at $10, but a promotional code […]
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