White Pines Nature Preserve Advanced Orienteering May 3rd
Join us for an advanced classic orienteering event on Sunday, May 3rd, 2026, at White Pines Nature Preserve, managed by the Triangle Land Conservancy. The park is located 14 minutes south of Pittsboro, NC
Please register before 6:00 PM on Friday, May 1st, to ensure we have enough maps.
On the day of the event, you will park in the main parking lot (548 S Rocky River Rd, Sanford, NC 27330).
Check-in is open between 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM. Make sure that you finish by 1:30 PM because we will begin clearing the courses at that time.
You must return to the check-in area after completing your course. This is where we will download your results.
Orange Advanced courses: Off-trail navigation is necessary. There is a “catch feature” or an “attack point” within 100m of a control. Trails can frequently be used as a route choice, but are usually not the best way.
Expert brown, green, and red courses are all as complex as the terrain allows, with minimal use of trails, and differ only in length.
All maps are printed at a scale of 1:7500. Contours 5m. There are many controls in this park due to its small size, so make sure to check the control description!
- Advanced (Orange) 3.5 km
- Expert Short (Brown) 3.6 km
- Expert Medium (Green) 5.3 km
- Expert Long (Red) 6.7 km
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. Uploading your route from your Garmin or Strava account is also possible.)
There are no bathrooms in this preserve, so plan accordingly.
Welcome!
Lina
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