Backwoods Orienteering Klub

Have Fun in the Woods Orienteering… with the best maps in the world

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

  • Birkhead Wilderness Classic Saturday Results

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    These are the Saturday RESULTS and SPLITS for the Birkhead Wilderness Classic Championship.

  • Your Birkhead Classic Finish Picture Index

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    Links to the photos taken by Carlie Huberman of everyone coming into Saturday’s Finish. There are typically 4 photos per person, and you can download them without charge.

  • Birkhead Wilderness US Classic Championship National “A” Meet

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    BOK is hosting the US Individual Classic Championships on March 10-11, 2012. Everyone is welcome. This is an OUSA sanctioned “A” Championship Event. Click on the link above for detailed information and Registration information. Latest News Here is the Birkhead Wilderness Classic Event Information  Addresses:  Plug these into your car GPS (we won’t even make…

  • Lake Johnson Score “O” Jan 29, 2012

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    This event is approved, and everyone is welcome. In the “Score” format each control is worth points and there is a fixed time limit. For this event, the time limit is 1 HOUR. You find controls in any order and win by the number of points you get.  The more difficult controls are worth more…

  • Destruct “O” January 8, 2012

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    Destruct “O” is an event without a director or course setter. We all meet and you are assigned a region where you hang a few controls in the region you were assigned.  You return and mark the controls you hung on the master map.  Then we all mark our maps with all the controls and have a score meet…

  • BOK Announcements Moving to Google Groups

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    We are finally making the move to Google Groups.  If you want to receive the announcements from BOK then join the group.  The address of this group is http://groups.google.com/group/backwoodsok.  To join, go to our Notice signup page or simply send an email to: BackwoodsOK+subscribe@googlegroups.com

  • New Years Day Motala Relay

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    We are having a Motala Relay on January 1, 2012 for Advanced Members with Finger Sticks who Pre-register. There will be a Briefing at 1pm and a Mass Start at 1:30pm. In a Motala Relay the course is made up of several loops.  Teams start on all the different loops, and when you finish one loop your team…

  • Results for December 11, 2011 at Umstead South

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    We had a fantastic turnout and equally good weather.  We started at a new spot shown on the map segment here.  This was a somewhat different course for Orange and above in that we had lots of controls in a small area with a very complex twisty course.  It was excellent practice for speed and…

  • Nov. 20 Advanced Event Moved to Morrow Mt. State Park

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    Our Nov. 20, 2011 “Advanced” event is being moved to Morrow Mountain State Park because Birkhead is embargoed since we are having our “A” meet there in March. We have to print the maps on Tuesday, so please register by 8am Tuesday, November 15 if you are planning to go so I can print a map for…

  • Results October 23, 2011 Umstead West

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    October 23, 2011 Umstead West It was perfect weather for an advanced meet.  Most people found Artem’s course design and control placement challenging, and even when I picked up controls in reverse order to make it easier some were hard to spot.  Placing the start/finish on the main road attracted some interest from mountain bikers…