Open Orienteering and 2m Radio-O at Eno River – Mar 2, 2025
Everyone is welcome to our event at Eno River State Park on Sunday, March 2, 2025.
Please register here before 6:00 PM on Friday, February 28, to ensure we have enough maps.
On the day of event, you will first head to check-in at the Fews Ford shelter, just west of the loop parking lot at the end of Cole Mill Road (6101 Cole Mill Rd, Durham. GPS coordinates = 36.073616, -79.007005). Check-in is open between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM. This is where you pick up your map.
Beginner courses (White and Yellow) will have their start and finish at the shelter. All other courses will have a remote start. The remote start is about 300 meters from Fews Ford shelter, and you must cross the pedestrian hanging bridge to get there. Please do not run on this bridge.
You can start any time between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM. Make sure that you finish by 3:00 PM because we will begin clearing the courses at that time.
If you’re new to orienteering, you may want to attend our Beginner Q&A at noon. Make sure you give yourself enough time to check in and pick up your map before the Q&A. In the meantime, beginners can prepare themselves by watching our introductory videos at the top of this page.
The control descriptions for the beginner (white) and intermediate (yellow) courses will be in English. Advanced and expert-level courses will use symbolic control descriptions. If you need to brush up on what these symbols mean, you can do so here.
You must return to the check-in area at the Fews Ford shelter after completing your course. This is where we will download your results.
- Beginner (White) 1.6 km, map scale 1:5000
- Intermediate (Yellow) 2.2 km, map scale 1:5000
- Advanced (Orange) 3.9 km, map scale 1:10000
- Expert Short (Brown) 3.4 km, map scale 1:10000
- Expert Medium (Green) 5.6 km, map scale 1:10000
- Expert Long (Red) 7.4 km, map scale 1:10000
2m Radio-O
- We will also be holding a practice 2 meter Radio-O event
- 2 available courses or you can combine both
- 3 constantly transmitting transmitters on 3 different frequencies
- 3 cycling transmitters on the same frequency
- Start, finish, and beacon will be the same for both courses
- Frequencies
- TBD. Will be printed on the map.
- 500m exclusion zone for start instead of normal 750m
- Maps are landscape letter (8.5x11in) size. 1:10000 scale.
- 2 available courses or you can combine both
- There will be no scheduled beginner class. If you would like to try Radio-O we will be able to give some basic instructions.
- Radio-O LIVELOX: TBD
LIVELOX
We will use LIVELOX so you can see your route on the map after the event, along with everyone else on your course. LIVELOX is great because you can learn a lot about route choice, and it is fun to see how others’ choices affect their runs. The easiest way to use LIVELOX is to download the LIVELOX app to your phone. Then, when you start your course, open the app on your phone, click “Start Recording,” and then “Stop Recording” at the end of your run. Later in the day, the event will be published on livelox.com, where you can select your course for viewing. You will be offered an event to choose from so you can see your and everyone else’s routes. (Instead of using the app, uploading your route from your Garmin or Strava account is also possible.)