Scent Trail Orienteering There are various Scent Work trials for your dog to attend. They compete by finding scents in defined spaces, or rats hidden in various places. Ruth and I are proposing to start a new game where dogs find scents as they walk along a trail. It does take some training, however, to […]
Read MoreThe shelters were taken for the original Saturday 3/23 date, so we changed the date to Sunday March 24th. This will be both an Open Orienteering Event as well as a Radio Event. More information will be posted and registration opened the week before the event.
Read MoreExpert orienteers (i.e., those who have successfully completed a brown, green, red, or blue course) are welcome to register for our annual coastal orienteering experience on Saturday and Sunday, March 09 and 10. This year we will again be on the West side of Shackleford Banks for a long-distance “goat” event on Saturday (see below […]
Read MoreGray Owl 2/17-18/2024, Results Gray Owl 2/17-18/2024, Results 2024-02-17 2m 3.9 km 400 min (5 Controls) 1 Nadia Scharlau 5 p (75:03) 2005018 2 Norbert Linke 5 p (75:22) 830320 3 William Allen 5 p (83:52) 7019429 4 Charles Scharlau #2 5 p (114:37) 2005010 5 Joseph Huberman 5 p […]
Read MoreWe had a great Score-O event at White Pines Nature Preserve today. Despite intermittent rain for most of the day, everyone seemed to have a good time and liked the course. Paul did almost all of the course design and people seemed to like the “reveal” format where the base map included 17 controls while […]
Read MoreWe had a great day for Radio Orienteering at Eno River State Park, Fews Ford access. It was a little chilly, but the cool morning made for some fast Radio running. A big thank you goes out to Charles and Nadia for running the Radio-O Beginners Course. We had a great showing with several new […]
Read MoreOn Sunday, 11 February, we will have an event at White Pines Nature Preserve, a 275 acre greenspace in Chatham County, managed by Triangle Land Conservancy. The meet is open to any orienteer who has successfully completed an advanced course (i.e., orange, brown, green, red, or blue). Start any time between 11:00 AM and […]
Read MoreIt was a sunny and chilly day at Eno River State Park, Fews Ford access. We saw some new and some familiar faces. Several participants, who are new to the sport, mentioned they found the beginner classes posted on BOK website very helpful in preparing for their first orienteering. Thank you, Imre, for helping with […]
Read MoreThe no-check-in foxoring on January 22-27 at Umstead Park East was well attended, and so popular that many competitors ran it twice!
Read MoreWe were fortunate that all the rain went down on Saturday. And Sunday was pretty much perfect for orienteering. We had 100 individual starts! Looking at Livelox, it appears that different controls gave troubles to different runners – always a good sign 🙂 The results follow along with a picture of red tail hawk taken […]
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