This event is sold out, and registration is closed. We will have a small event at Shackleford Banks on Saturday, 06 February.  We are limiting registration to 25 people because of Covid and because (unless you have your own means of getting to the island) competitors will need to ride over on the same ferry.  […]

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We have been approved for events on Saturday, 06 February and Sunday, 07 February at Shackleford Banks and Ft. Macon, respectively. At this point, we feel that the only thing that would disrupt these plans would be severe weather that causes cancellation of the ferry to Shackleford. Details about these events should be available soon […]

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On a near perfect day for orienteering, we enjoyed an expert-level event on a new map of Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area. Although it is a fairly small park, it has more than its share if interesting rocky features, steep cliffs, earth banks, and complex patterns of thick vegetation. These made the short courses pretty […]

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All of the spaces for this event have been filled, and so registration is now closed. Join us on January 10 for small orienteering event in a fantastic new venue — Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area in Hillsborough, NC.  We have a new map of this special area, and will be offering three courses for […]

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December Score-O, 2020: Eno River State Park A nice weekend brought nearly 50 orienteers to Eno River State Park for our annual score-O. This year, the pandemic made us re-think the event’s format so that participants could be more spatially and temporally distributed. The course consisted of 37 controls and was set by Friday. Participants […]

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Registration for this event is now closed. Our annual December Score-O will be at Eno River State Park during the weekend of December 12/13.  This event is open only to expert orienteers — those who have completed a brown, green, red, or blue course.  (We are sorry about the relative lack of beginner-friendly events over […]

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We had a nice event on a new map of our latest orienteering venue, Horton Grove Nature Preserve in Bahama NC. Many thanks to the land managers, Triangle Land Conservancy, for supporting the mapping of this park, and for supporting the occasional event that we hope to have there in the future. Despite the fairly […]

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Registration for this event is closed. On Sunday, October 11 we will have an orienteering event at Horton Grove Nature Preserve in Bahama, NC.  The event is open only to ‘expert’ orienteers – those who have successfully completed a brown, green, or red course.  The registration page is here. As you register, please keep in […]

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Horton Grove is a 708 acre nature preserve north of Durham and managed by Triangle Land Conservancy. We will stage October’s event from its main parking area, which has space for approximately 25 cars, and is located at Latitude 36.142298, Longitude -78.843700. Nice weekends during the pandemic have brought relatively large crowds, and the lot […]

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Nearly every event report begins with a statement about the day’s weather, and that’s the function of this sentence. Mother’s Day 2020 saw fun times at Carolina North with the customary fast courses and multiple trail options. This event was originally planned to be the ‘foxchase’ format in which every other control is a common […]

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