We will have an OPEN event at Umstead Park (North) on Sunday, September 13, 2026. Please be sure to register by Friday, September 11th at 5pm.

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 courses open at 11.00 am and everybody must finish by 2.00 PM.

We will have all regular courses from beginner to advanced, White through Red. We are sharing the weekend with the Piedmont Champs for JROTC hosted on Saturday around Camp Lapihio. The expert courses will get into some intricate reentrants down that way.

For both Yellow and Orange courses, there will be a road crossing. Traffic generally isn’t heavy, but please take care crossing any roads.

• 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)

Click the button to go directly to the registration page. Being September, don’t forget to renew your annual pass if you need to.

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 it is 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.)

Help with control pick-up would be greatly appreciated.

Matt

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