6 Dec 2014 Umstead South 6 Dec 2014, Umstead South The threat of a light winter rain couldn’t stop nearly 100 orienteers from participating in Saturday’s score-style orienteering courses. Several first-timers were challenged by the 1-hour course, which contained 20 beginner, intermediate, and advanced controls. Michael Stemkovski won the 1-hour course, in a very close […]
Read MoreResults: We got an early start to avoid the rain. It worked. We had a few sprinkles, but the steady rain held off until everyone returned. The consensus was that the courses were very difficult and the results attests to that. Nov 23, 2014 Birkhead NE Nov 23, 2014 Birkhead NE Results Red Course: […]
Read MoreWe were quite fortunate that the rain decided to start only around 4 PM. By that time everybody finished, so only the people who went picking up remote controls got caught in it. And we do want to thank everybody who helped with the event right away: – Joseph Huberman – teaching the class (and […]
Read MoreThis was our first night event at Schenck Forest. The Dog Bones format requires that two controls be done as a pair without another control between the pair. It was arranged so that 41 and 51 had to be done together and the others followed suit i.e. 43-53, 58-48 etc. The point value was the […]
Read MoreBubbaGoat: 19 Oct 2014, Umstead North BubbaGoat: 19 Oct 2014, Umstead North BOK’s 2014 Bubba- and Pygmy-goats capped a great weekend of three mass-start events in and around Umstead State Park. With ideal weather and open runnable woods, the leaders of these races were able to make pretty short work of their courses. Kevin Wilkinson, […]
Read MoreLine-O results 2014-09-21 Lake Crabtree County park
Read MoreWe had great weather for the event and the woods were lovely. A few green sections, but mostly quite easily runnable. We had some technical difficulties generatign the results because of a broken wire in the download box cable. I believe I now have all the results, but if you can’t find yours, please let […]
Read MoreThanks to everyone who came to the event! The weather was perfect and we had a chance to see a lot of birds (including a flock of woodpeckers) visiting the clearing near the shelter. The courses proved to be rather difficult (at least judging from the result times). Two controls gave most difficulty to the […]
Read MoreThe sprint event at at Lake Crabtree County Park, was a lot of fun. After a week with plenty of rain, we thought Sunday would be relatively fine. At around 9:30 or so, a huge thunderstorm rolled in as Pat and I were setting controls. With my map now an illegible sodden replica of its […]
Read MoreWhile most folks around the Triangle were celebrating Father’s day, a group of advanced orienteers came to Umstead instead to honor the much lesser-known holiday “rootstock appreciation day”. With only three exceptions, every control on each course was at a rootstock – some were large, new, obvious, and magnificent; others were old, decaying, small, […]
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