It was a beautiful day for some orienteering at Horton Grove Nature Preserve on April 26th, 2025. Opened in 2012, Horton Grove Nature Preserve is the largest public preserve managed by Triangle Land Conservancy. It has nearly eight miles of trails, with plans to expand to over ten. The trails honor the Black families whose […]

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Spring 2025 Beginner Radio Orienteering Class Results

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Join us for an advanced classic orienteering event on Saturday, April 26th, 2025, at Horton Grove Nature Preserve, which is located 10 minutes west of Butner, NC Please register here before 9:00 PM on Thursday, April 24, to ensure we have enough maps. On the day of the event, you will park in the northern parking […]

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Unlike previous years, we are trying our luck in 2025 with having our coastal weekend in the Fall. We are currently planning these events for October 25 and 26 on Bear Island, part of Hammocks Beach State Park. For those who missed orienteering in this area last year, the island offers some of the best […]

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It was a beautiful day for orienteering, which was fortunate since competitors on the advanced courses had to walk an extra 2 kilometers to reach a remote start and from a remote finish. Having remote start and finish allowed us to set courses in the eastern part of the park, an area with fascinating terrain […]

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On Sunday, April 6, BOK held an advanced Reveal-O and open “Explorer” course at West Point on the Eno Park. The water levels were more accommodating than the pollen levels on this warm sunny spring day, but everyone seemed to enjoy the chance to explore a new 400-acre orienteering venue in Durham. Many thanks go […]

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We will have an OPEN event at Umstead Park (North) on Sunday, April 13, 2025. Take Glenwood Ave to the park entrance. Go south past the visitor center to the parking lots at the end of the road. Registration and starts will be in the large picnic shelter to the east of the parking area. […]

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We are well into the peak of pollen season here in North Carolina, so clouds of the yellow stuff were blowing out of the trees and many runners emerged from the largely pine forest covered in it. But the temperatures were perfect for running, the forecasted rain held off, and the woods were still open […]

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I will start the comments with the usual: We had fantastic weather.  But then I diverge because the preparations were particularly unusual.  To start things off, we had the wrong map – we had an orienteering map instead of a Marauder Map.  We needed real time map updates.  The Dreamville Festival was closing most of […]

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Half-Life Score-O Join us for a Score-O event at the New Hope Overlook section of Jordan Lake on Sunday March 30. In this event, your goal is to collect as many points as possible within the allotted time. There is no set route—you can visit the controls in any order you choose. REGISTRATION IS CLOSED […]

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