Another fun Chapel Hill street orienteering event is in the books. Thanks to all who came out! Results follow. Attempted controls that had the wrong answer are indicated in parentheses at the end of each competitor’s list 2-Hour 1. Vladimir Stemkovski 82 points = 12, 21, 22, 25, 44, 46, 49, 51, 57, 58, 59, 67, […]
Read MoreThank you everyone who came to Umstead West on this beautiful Sunday afternoon. Temps in the mid 60s and clear sky. The feedback I got from some of the runners was that the courses were very fast. Thank you Matt Craig, Vladimir, Tatyana and Clint Lloyd for help with control pick up. Brown 3.8 km […]
Read MoreOn Saturday, November 16 we will have an urban orienteering event on the streets and greenspaces of Chapel Hill. This will be a mass start “score-O” in which competitors can chose which controls they visit and in which order, with different controls being worth different point values. The competitor with the highest score at the […]
Read MoreThe event had an 80 m classic course on the West side of the Eno River and a foxoring course on the East side. The ground was pretty wet but the rain had mostly stopped by 10 AM. We had thirteen participants. Seven tried the classic courses and nine tried to foxoring course. The classic […]
Read MoreExpert orienteers (i.e., those who have finished a brown, green, red, or blue course) are welcome to participate on Sunday, November 10th at Umstead West. We will offer three point-to-point expert courses (brown 3.8km, green 5.6km, and red 7.0km), with starts any time between noon and 2:00pm. Control pickup will start at 3:00pm. If you are […]
Read MoreAttendees: Joseph, Ruth, David W., Ian, Vladimir, Tatyana, Imre, Lina, Mihai, Paul Emmerson Treasurer’s report BOK is operating in the black and saving money to support our mapping projects. We had a successful ARDF Champs event that paid off all the ARDF equipment and then some. Now that we have all our event income through […]
Read MoreWe had a cold wet day at Umstead, but several hardy orienteers came out anyway and were rewarded by a reasonably dry afternoon. A fire in the shelter fireplace helped too! Three people came out early for the yellow to orange class and we had a good time with that while setting many of the […]
Read MoreWe’ll have rain but the event is still on! We will have an 80 m classic course and a short foxoring course at the Eno River State Park Few’s Ford Access on Sunday, October 27. For more information about Radio-O/ARDF, see the BOK ARDF page. Starts 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. We will have a […]
Read MoreNo message on paqrk phone line at 7:42 so I assume all is well (and wet). We will have an open event at Umstead North on October 20 starting at noon. All are welcome. You will need to register at the BOK store by 5pm Friday October 18 as I am also working the JROTC […]
Read MoreOn the first day of proper autumn we had about a couple dozen competitors taking to the streets and greenways of Cary and Morrisville to find 48 controls (including the race director’s house). Many of them decided to use a combination of biking and running: with the exception of two controls everything was reachable by […]
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