You are welcome to come to our OPEN orienteering event at Carolina North Forest on Sunday, October 4. Start and finish from the parking lot of Seawell Elementary School (GPS = 35.940171, -79.078585). We will offer Yellow, Orange, Brown, Green and Red courses. Note, that there are NO RESTROOMS at the start/finish. Please, plan your […]
Read MoreWe have tentatively rescheduled the Sept 13 open event to Oct 18. Same time and place. With Gov. Cooper planning his next update for Sept 11, we figured there would not be enough time for registration to happen, maps to get printed and controls to get put out with so little notice. The shelter was […]
Read MoreLake Crabtree County Park is a convenient, accessible park in the heart of the triangle, and is very popular on the weekends. It has a good system of mountain biking trails which are well maintained through the joint efforts of the parks system and Triangle Off-Road Cyclists (TORC). This means that trails are constantly being […]
Read MoreOn August 23, we will be holding a sprint orienteering event at Lake Crabtree County Park. The event is open to everyone, but we will not be offering beginner classes nor instruction. Registration will be in or near the Dogwood shelter. We are not able to reserve shelters, so if it is already taken registration […]
Read MoreWe had a beautiful cool day. It felt like fall with the sun behind the clouds. Charles Scharlau set the course and eight people went out. This event was set up like an official ARDF classic 80 m course with a start corridor, becon, and finish. People found anywhere from 3-5 transmitters. One interesting note, […]
Read MoreThe event will start at 8AM and Transmitters will go off at Noon. The beacon will stay on until everyone has returned. The location is 1725 Gray Owl Road in Asheboro, NC. You must register for this event here! Thanks for your input about start times and course lengths. Charles can now design the courses […]
Read MoreMost people came on Saturday and just a few on Sunday. We started at 7am so the early birds could stay cool. Even so the humidity was so high that we were soaked setting out the 1.6k ARDF sprint at 6:30, just walking. Some people had a problem with control #10, only on Red, and […]
Read MoreOrienteering & ARDF at Gray Owl Joseph & Ruth are going to host a two day event consisting of a classic orienteering event and an ARDF sprint event on the weekend of August 1 & 2, 2020. The Orienteering course will be offered on both days. The ARDF sprint is planned for Saturday, but will […]
Read MoreOn a typical hot July day in Raleigh we had 17 brave orienteers come out for the sprint event. We had two courses of close to 3KM each with a shorter variant of about 2km. Everyone tried two courses. This was also the first opportunity to pick up the new BOK clothing items. See separate […]
Read MoreThe BOK Clothing has finally arrived. There are some issues with the sizing, so you may need to change your size selection. This will be done on a first come first serve basis. Hopefully these changes will all work out, however Oland will make additional products so that everyone can get a proper fit. Procedure […]
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