Open Orienteering at Umstead North 2025-02-09
We will have an OPEN event at Umstead Park (North) on Sunday, February 9, 2025.
Take Glenwood Ave to the park entrance. Go south past the visitor center to the parking lots at the end of the road. Registration and starts will be in the large picnic shelter to the east of the parking area. (GPS = 35.871668, -78.759166)
The event starts at 11:30 am and everybody must finish by 2:30 PM.
We will have all regular courses from beginner to expert, White through Blue. We are also offering a special yellow to orange map for participants wanting to test their skills. If you are moving up to orange, the control descriptions are now pictorial rather than English words. See our Control Descriptions and Map Symbols Explained page which includes a link to a handy online quiz.
- White 2.1km 10 controls
- Yellow 3.0km 9 controls
- Yellow to Orange 2.7km 11 controls
- Orange 3.5km 8 controls
- Brown 3.8km 8 controls
- Green 5.9km 10 controls
- Red 7.4km 13 controls
- Blue 9.1km 16 controls
Expert courses (brown and up) will have a remote start with about 500m walk to the start.
We will also have a beginners Q&A session starting at noon. 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)
Registration closes at 5pm on Friday, February 7. Click the following button to go directly to the registration page.
As always, help with control pick-up would be greatly appreciated.
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