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Results for Birkhead, October 4, 2015

Results: October 04, 2015 @ 05:17 We had a very successful event.  Rain east and west of us, but no rain here the whole day, cool and breezy.  Even the creek was down to ankle depth.  About 12 people stayed for lunch and we had pizza, chicken and some terrific sides and desserts.  Thanks to Josef for […]

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Results for Umstead South (20 Sept 2015)

20 Sept 2015, Umstead South A really fun meet on a great day in the piedmont attracted over 100 orienteers to get out into the woods of Umstead State Park. There was a tricky leg on the white course that required competitors to pass by a control (#56) that was not on their course, on […]

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Umstead South Event, Sunday 20 Sept, Everyone welcome!

On Sunday (20 Sept) we will be back to the south side of Umstead for a regular orienteering event.  Everyone is welcome.  We will conduct a beginner’s class at 12:30, and will offer courses for every ability and endurance level.  Compete, or just have fun.  Go individually, or in a group.  Go with another human, […]

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Results for Crabtree, Aug 30 2015

We finally (after much delay due to some computer problems) have results for the Advanced event at Lake Crabtree on August 30, 2015.

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Lake Crabtree Advanced Event (30 August)

The advanced meet scheduled for 30 August at Lake Crabtree has been approved by park management.  This will be an advanced event, open to any BOK club members who have successfully completed an orange (or more advanced) course.  Note that if there are heavy rains before the event, the park will close the trails and […]

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August 01-02, 2015 at Gray Owl Results

  It was a beautiful weekend.  We had about 20 people, some just hung around the house and played with our dogs or visited the caboose.  A few people showed up Saturday evening, ran the sprint and either camped or stayed in the house.  On Sunday we got started a little after 9am with some […]

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Birkhead Events August 1 & 2

August 2, 2015 – Starts from 9am-noon – Birkhead, Gray Owl This will be an Advanced event and Orange (if we have orange registrations by Thursday morning) open to BOK Members.  We will start from Joseph’s house at 1725 Gray Owl Road, Asheboro, NC.  You must pre-register for this event and indicate whether you are running Advanced […]

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Results for Bond Park (Middle Distance), July 19 2015

Josef Trzicky designed a Middle Distance course (shorter than a regular course, slightly longer than a sprint but otherwise very similar with many short quick controls and rapid decisions) for summertime in Bond Park. As expected, the day was warm and quite humid, somewhat mitigated by the early start time. The following people helped put […]

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Falls Lake Advanced June 14 – Results

Sorry about the long delay in getting these results out. This event event was a Farsta relay. This is a one-man relay where each participant runs two relay loops. The course is made up of intersecting loops. The number of shared controls determines the possible number of relay legs. For example, two loops with four […]

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New Controls are Here

At our last meeting we decided to replace our controls.  Unfortunately the ones we wanted weren’t available at that time, but now we have them.  The quality seems to be better than the previous ones.  The seams containing the wires don’t have openings, and the wires have a long overlap.  These should last about 10 […]

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