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.

Author: Joseph

  • How to interpret the results

    When you look at the posted results there is a dizzying array of numbers. This article will help you make sense of them. If you want to know how to see how you compared to others on each leg of the event, then read on…

  • New Years Day Relay to be Rescheduled when warmer

    1/5/17 Update: The meet for this Sunday, 1/8/17 has been canceled.  Josef has asked to reschedule the event later in the season when it is warmer.   1/4/17 Update:  We got approval from the park, but a snow storm is coming (or not).  We will (maybe) start at 12:30 on Sunday, but only if the…

  • Open Event December 11 at Lake Crabtree

    We welcome everyone to our final open event of the year at Lake Crabtree park on Sunday, 11 December.  Registration will be in the Beech shelter, with parking at the third driveway to your right after entering the park.  (GPS coordinates = 35.840413, -78.794005).  If you’re coming in a group of 5 or more, please…

  • Schenck Forest November 13, 2016 – Results

    Beautiful weather for this event.  The courses were complex as typical for Josef’s courses.  Thanks to Josef for course design, control setting, and registration, Joseph and Ruth for course layout, printing and pre-registration, Debra and Jeff Rezeli and Dave Waller for control pickup. One final note: In the Pre-Registration Form the section that says “Number…

  • BOK Club Shirts

    If you missed the article on the BOK Club Shirts and want your choices to be included in the decision making, follow this link to the Shirt Article.

  • Club Shirts for BOK

    We have been considering BOK club shirts for a few years, but have been put off by the high cost of the shirts.  While we were competing in the ARDF (Radio-O) World Championships held in Bulgaria last month, Ruth and I met representatives of Siven, a Bulgarian company that makes high quality athletic shirts at…

  • September 25, 2016 Gray Owl Middle Distance Results

    Excellent weather and short complex technical courses consistent with the “Middle Distance” standards.  Josef designed and set the courses. Note the consistency of the results.  All the winning times were about an hour.  Nice design, Josef.   Josef, Ed, and Joseph picked up the controls. The pizza delivery worked this weekend and with a addition of fruit…

  • Members Event & Pot Luck @ Gray Owl September 25

    The September 25 members event is confirmed at 1725 Gray Owl Road in Asheboro. (Please drive all the way in, turn around in the circle, and park in the driveway heading out.) The event will start at 10am, and the course closes at 2pm. If you need an earlier start let me know and I’ll…

  • A Beginner’s Guide to Radio-Orienteering

    Radio-O, known as Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) was born during the cold war when when Northern and Eastern European countries wanted to encourage technical activities that developed civil defense skills in the schools and communities. Classic Radio-O The basic idea of a Radio-O classic event is to find up to 5 transmitters (sometimes called…

  • Radio-O at Carolina Forest 8/14/2016 Results

    The event was a great success in that almost everyone found all the controls and had fun. In this White/Yellow level event there are 5 transmitters, each on a different frequency, transmitting continuously. There were a reasonable assortment of issues that make any ARDF event “unique”, shall I say.  We picked up a box of Chinese receivers…