Birkhead Wilderness near historical Thornburg Farm is one of the prettiest forests in our area and also one of the most challenging places for orienteering. There are virtually no trails and elevation features are so beautifully jumbled, that it makes it really hard to keep track of your location and even harder to restore connection […]
Read MoreThe open sprint at Bond Park scheduled for April 30 has been cancelled as the park is not scheduling events for that day. “Spring Daze Festival is that weekend in Bond Park on Saturday and we are not scheduling anything on Sunday in the event that we need to use that as our rain date […]
Read MoreThis event has been a true team effort. History: this event had been planned for April 2nd. However, the Park management noticed a conflict with the big Umstead 100 race, so we were forced to change to a different date. Easter Sunday was not ideal, but since we didn’t have an alternate location ready for […]
Read MoreAdvanced orienteers (must have previously completed an Orange, Brown, Green or Red course) are welcome to our event at Thornburg Farm in Birkhead Wilderness. Check-in at the farm house and proceed to the remote start. Location: From US 220 in Asheboro – take NC 49 south (you’ll actually be heading west) for 5.5 miles.– Turn right […]
Read MoreNBC reported on a study showing that Orienteering, by exercising the spatial portion of the brain, slowed the development of dementia. This NBC feature on YouTube was highlighted in the in the Orienteering USA March Newsletter. Orienteering USA, (OUSA) is the national organization that governs the sport of Orienteering in the United States, and is […]
Read MoreWe will have a two-band small Classic Radio Orienteering event at Schenck Forest on Saturday, April 1
Read MoreWe had a lovely, if cool, day for orienteering at Lake Crabtree today. The courses were compact and we used the Motala format for green and red where the course consisted of two loops with a map exchange between them. This allowed more controls in a smaller area (a denser control set) without crowding either […]
Read MoreThe cold rainy weather couldn’t spoil our fun on Shackleford this year. Although strong gusts prevented us from getting out for our Saturday courses, we were able to enjoy the island on Sundy where people ran one, two or three short loop courses among the dunes and wild horses. Although it wasn’t completely the weekend […]
Read MoreMarch 5, 2023 at Dix Park The weather was perfect, and the event went flawlessly setup and equipment wise, however some of the competitors weren’t so flawless. This is great practice for the Champs. Now is the time to get the mistakes out of your system. Radio Orienteering,Results 2023-03-05 Sprint All3.1 km 58 m 60 […]
Read MoreThank you all for participating in the Score-O event on Sunday, Feb.26 at Schenck forest. We were inspired by various orienteering formats such as Memory-O, Score-O with a moving control, team Score-O, and dog-bone Score-O, to suggest a new event: Reveal Score-O. In this event, five of the controls on the original map (#45, 49, […]
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