Open Orienteering and Radio O – Umstead South 25 May 2025
Backwoods Orienteering Klub is proud to host a registered event as part of the International Orienteering Federation’s World Orienteering Week (WOW) taking place May 17-25, 2025. This global celebration connects thousands of orienteers and newcomers across more than 70 countries, all participating in their local communities while being part of something truly international. Read more about WOW here:
https://worldorienteeringweek.com/
We will have an OPEN event at Umstead Park (South) on Sunday, May 25, 2025.
This is also a Radio Orienteering event with a classic 2m course.
Exit at Harrison Avenue off I-40 and drive into Umstead Park. Registration will be in the large shelter along the Company Mill trail northwest of the parking area. (GPS = 35.838133, -78.760707)
The event starts at 10.30 am and everybody must finish by 2.00 pm.
We will have all regular courses from beginner to expert, White through Blue. Expert courses will have a remote start.
Course Lengths:
White 1.5km
Yellow 2.6km
Orange 3.3km
Brown 3.7km
Green 5.7km
Red 7.3km
Blue 8.8km
Registration will close Saturday morning.
We will have a beginners Q&A session for regular orienteering as needed starting at 11:30. There will not be beginner instruction for radio orienteering.
If you are new to orienteering we recommend that you check out these short videos to prepare for the event.
- An Orienteering Class (Video 14:24) This class video includes the information in the following two videos:
- An Orienteering Map Explained (Video 3:52)
- An Orienteering Thumb Compass Explained (Video 1:26)
We will use Livelox so you can see your route on the map after the event along with everyone else on your course. 
This is great both because you can learn a lot about route choice, and fun to see how others’ choices affected their run. The easiest way to use Livelox is to download the Livelox app to your phone. Then when you start open the app on your phone and click “Start Recording”. Then after the event, at 2:00, the event will be published on Livelox.com and you can select your “Class” which is the same as your course. Then you will be offered the event to choose so you can see your and everyone else’s routes. (You can also upload your route from your GPS watch.)