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

  • ARDF Practice at Gray Owl

    We are having an ARDF practice on Sunday, December 6, 2020.Location: 1725 Gray Owl Road, Asheboro, NC (35.634843, -79.881873)Time: Everyone should arrive at 10am We will put out transmitters at that time and hike to a remote location. Then we will find the transmitters on the way back to the finish which will be at…

  • Gray Owl Weekend Results Nov 14-15, 2020

    Quite an ambitious event with white – blue orienteering courses, a 60 and 90 minute night event and a 2m ARDF event. The weather was perfect, cool and breezy. Thanks to Charles for setting up the ARDF event and to Josef and Jiri for picking up the far controls. All of this happened on the…

  • Gray Owl Weekend Nov 14-15

    Registration is open in our store. When: Nov 14 – 15. Saturday is opening day of long rifle hunting season, so be sure to wear bright orange if you are competing Saturday Day. No hunting at night or on Sunday. (Send me an email if you want to change from Saturday to Sunday.) Where: 1725…

  • Night-O Schenck Forest October 31

    Date: October 31Location: Schenk ForestRegistration: Closes that Saturday at 10am Event Type: Advanced Night-O Score course Start Time: 7:30PM (Come early for the briefing.) Course Closes: 8:30PM Event Director: Mihai There will only be a one 1-hour course. You can choose to finish at any time if you don’t wish to do the whole hour.…

  • BOK 2020 Annual Meeting

    When: October 30, 7:00pm to 9:00pmWhere: Zoom We will have our annual meeting on Zoom this year. As usual, everyone is welcome to attend. Unfortunately, you will have to supply your own pizza. Hopefully we will be in person next year. Please let me know if you would like to add to the agenda. Agenda:…

  • ARDF Results Aug. 16, 2020

    We had a beautiful cool day. It felt like fall with the sun behind the clouds. Charles Scharlau set the course and eight people went out. This event was set up like an official ARDF classic 80 m course with a start corridor, becon, and finish. People found anywhere from 3-5 transmitters. One interesting note,…

  • ARDF August 16 at Gray Owl

    The event will start at 8AM and Transmitters will go off at Noon. The beacon will stay on until everyone has returned. The location is 1725 Gray Owl Road in Asheboro, NC. You must register for this event here! Thanks for your input about start times and course lengths. Charles can now design the courses…

  • Gray Owl Results ARDF & O 8/1/ & 8/2/2020

    Most people came on Saturday and just a few on Sunday. We started at 7am so the early birds could stay cool. Even so the humidity was so high that we were soaked setting out the 1.6k ARDF sprint at 6:30, just walking. Some people had a problem with control #10, only on Red, and…

  • Two Day Event August 1 & 2

    Orienteering & ARDF at Gray Owl Joseph & Ruth are going to host a two day event consisting of a classic orienteering event and an ARDF sprint event on the weekend of August 1 & 2, 2020. The Orienteering course will be offered on both days. The ARDF sprint is planned for Saturday, but will…

  • BOK Clothing Pickup

    The BOK Clothing has finally arrived. There are some issues with the sizing, so you may need to change your size selection. This will be done on a first come first serve basis. Hopefully these changes will all work out, however Oland will make additional products so that everyone can get a proper fit. Procedure…