Orienteering Raleigh NC

Backwoods Orienteering Klub, founded November 15, 1978 sponsors events and teaches orienteering in the North Carolina piedmont, around Raleigh, NC.

We invite you to try orienteering with us. Everyone is welcome at all our events. We always offer beginning, intermediate, advanced and expert courses (routes through the woods) at every Regular event.

Advanced Event (Relay) at Umstead West, Thursday Jan 1, 2015

Josef Trzicky has designed another New Year’s Day relay for us.

There will be a mass start at 10:00am, at Umstead West on Thursday Jan 1, 2015. Instructions will be at 9:45, and people will likely be pairing off into teams a little before that, so particularly if you don’t already have a teammate you should arrive before 9:30am.

This is an “Advanced” event, so we ask that you pre-register by 4pm December 31 so we know how many maps to print and have time to print them.

Teams consist of 2 people.  One person runs 3 short legs each about 1.3K and the other person runs three of the long legs each about 1.7K.  The really nice thing about this event is that there are a bunch of people waiting for their teammate to return so there is a lot more socializing than usual.