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: Vladimir Stemkovski

  • Regular Event. Nov 14 in North Umstead

    This is a regular event. Everyone is welcome! Enter the park from US-70 and follow BOK signs to the southernmost parking lot. We’ll start from the big shelter. The courses will be opened at noon and closed at 3 PM. Everyone should finish by that time. We’ll have a beginners class at 12.30. Help with…

  • Aug 29, 2010 Schenck Forest – Results

    It was perfect “end of summer” event (moderately hot, lots of spiderwebs, and lots of “green”) and it was great to see everybody again after such long summer break. The courses were designed in a way that runners would not see controls until they find the exact features the controls are on. In other words…

  • Results from 09-20-2009 at South Umstead

    We had great turnaround this time. There were 110 entries, which means that about 120 people came to the event! The weather was all right, a bit hotter than runners would like, but, hey, it’s September in North Carolina, so it could have been worse πŸ™‚ Advanced courses were somewhat shorter than usual, but rather…

  • May 3. Schenck Forest. Score-O and more.

    This event is for advanced orienteers (BOK members who have completed a brown, green, or red course). Don’t forget, you must pre-register. The event will consist of a Score-O course with elements of Treasure Hunting πŸ™‚ Due to an unusual format of the course the start window will be from 12:00 to 1:30, so we…