Author: David Waller
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Results — Dorothea Dix — 25 March 2018
Last Sunday, 12 orienteers were drawn to Dorothea Dix park in Raleigh to try their hand at two urban sprints. In the NC Piedmont, orienteers are so accustomed to forest maps that are predominantly white (open woods), with scattered bits of green (vegetation) and black (rock & trails). So when competitors first turned-over the…
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Members meet, 25 March, Dorothea Dix
On Sunday March 25, BOK will hold our first meet at Dorothea Dix park in Raleigh. This event is open to BOK members, members of other orienteering clubs, and active members of the U.S. military. We will offer two short (appx. 2.5 km) urban sprints. Sprint orienteering can provide a qualitatively different experience than our…
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Results for Eno River (18 Feb 2018)
Sunday was a near-perfect day for orienteering, and BOK held its first public event at Eno River State park. We offered six point-to-point orienteering courses, and two Fox-O score courses for radio orienteering. An enthusiastic group of beginner, intermediate and advanced orienteers enjoyed their courses, and nearly everyone completed their course successfully. Thanks to…
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Score-O Results
10 Dec 2017, Umstead State Park This year’s long score event at Umstead came on a beautiful, though chilly, Sunday in the Piedmont. The course was especially long, offering 47 controls to runners in either a 2-hour or a 6-hour race. The course stretched so far to the southeast that a new map…
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2017 Umstead Score-O
Updated information for Sunday’s score-O The 1-hour course has 20 controls and will be printed on 1 page. The 2-hour course has 39 controls and will be printed on 4 pages. The 6-hour course has 47 controls and will be printed on 5 pages. All maps will be printed at a scale of 1:10000. Because…
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Results for Chapel Hill Street-O
Chapel Hill Street-O, 05 November 2017 It was a perfect day for distance running (low 50’s and overcast) and 24 brave orienteers came out to Hargraves Community center in Chapel Hill to attempt the inaugural Chapel Hill street-O. 44 ‘controls’ were spread over a 21 square-kilometer area, requiring well over 25 miles to…
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Bubbagoat Results
Bubbagoat 2017, Eno River State Park A great weekend of orienteering kicked-off at Eno River with the Bubbagoat race. After a quick pre-race briefing, orienteers took off en masse toward thier first control. The shorter Pygmygoat course shared the first three controls with the Bubbagoat, so there were plenty of opportunities at…
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Results — Carolina North night-O
It was a near perfect evening for orienteering — cool, dry, and dark. It was the first time BOK has ever orienteering at Carolina North in the dark, but the venue is very well-suited for it, and it hopefully won’t be our last. Thanks to Kevin Frankowski, Kelly Sears, and Patrick Sears for help with…
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Final information about Bubbagoat weekend
November 4-5, 2017 Read information about two fun local orienteering events in early November by clicking here.
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October 21 — Night-O at Carolina North
On Saturday, October 21, BOK will have a night orienteering event at Carolina North Forest in Chapel Hill. This event is open only to: BOK members, members of other orienteering clubs, and active members of the US military. (People in the latter two categories will need to pay $5 registration and possibly $5 for fingerstick…