Author: David Waller
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Umstead South Event, Sunday 20 Sept, Everyone welcome!
On Sunday (20 Sept) we will be back to the south side of Umstead for a regular orienteering event. Everyone is welcome. We will conduct a beginner’s class at 12:30, and will offer courses for every ability and endurance level. Compete, or just have fun. Go individually, or in a group. Go with another human,…
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Lake Crabtree Advanced Event (30 August)
The advanced meet scheduled for 30 August at Lake Crabtree has been approved by park management. This will be an advanced event, open to any BOK club members who have successfully completed an orange (or more advanced) course. Note that if there are heavy rains before the event, the park will close the trails and…
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Results for Dec. 6 Score-O at Umstead South
6 Dec 2014 Umstead South 6 Dec 2014, Umstead South The threat of a light winter rain couldn’t stop nearly 100 orienteers from participating in Saturday’s score-style orienteering courses. Several first-timers were challenged by the 1-hour course, which contained 20 beginner, intermediate, and advanced controls. Michael Stemkovski won the 1-hour course, in a very close…
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December 6 Regular event at Umstead South
This Saturday, we’ll again be in Umstead for a 1-, 2-, and 4-hour score event. Unlike most regular orienteering courses, these “score” courses do not need to be completed in a predetermined order. Competitors will simply get a map with a number of locations circled, and can chose which ones they want to visit and…
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2014 Bubba-goat Results
BubbaGoat: 19 Oct 2014, Umstead North BubbaGoat: 19 Oct 2014, Umstead North BOK’s 2014 Bubba- and Pygmy-goats capped a great weekend of three mass-start events in and around Umstead State Park. With ideal weather and open runnable woods, the leaders of these races were able to make pretty short work of their courses. Kevin Wilkinson,…
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Results for advanced event at Umstead West (15 June 2014)
While most folks around the Triangle were celebrating Father’s day, a group of advanced orienteers came to Umstead instead to honor the much lesser-known holiday “rootstock appreciation day”. With only three exceptions, every control on each course was at a rootstock – some were large, new, obvious, and magnificent; others were old, decaying, small,…
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Advanced event at Umstead West: 15 June
The advanced event at Umstead West this Sunday, June 15, has been approved. Start between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM; control pickup will start at 3:00 PM. Please pre-register online by Friday at noon. Preliminary course and map notes: Three advanced courses will be offered: brown (3.7 km, 8 controls), green (5.2 km; 10 controls),…
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Results from Lake Crabtree sprint
Thanks to: Ken. Hanson, Terese Camp, Vladimir Stemkovski, Tatyana Stemkovski, Patrick & Kelly Sears, and Ian Shields for help and control pickup. Sunday was a near-perfect day for orienteering: comfortably warm, dry, and enough sunlight to provide good directional guidance during the races. Thanks to Lake Crabtree’s most agreeable park manager, we were able to…
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Sunday, June 16th: Sprint event at Lake Crabtree
Sprint Event at Lake Crabtree. Everyone at level Orange and above is welcome. Early start at 10am. Course closes at 1pm. You must pre-register. The bad news: Despite our long and persistent efforts, we have been unable to secure permission for the urban sprint event on Duke’s West campus. The brand new map and…