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: David Waller

  • 2021-08-22 Horton Grove Results

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    We enjoyed a small but fun event at Horton Grove on Sunday in the late-August heat. To make up for the heat, humidity, and occasionally thick vegetation, courses were slightly shorter than usual. They were fairly difficult, though, and nearly everyone came back with stories about how they messed-up on one or two controls. Many…

  • Advanced event, August 22 at Horton Grove

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    Registration for this event has closed On Sunday, August 22 we will have an orienteering event at Horton Grove Nature Preserve in Bahama, NC.  The event is open to advanced orienteers – those who have successfully completed an orange, brown, green, or red course.  Check-in at the main parking lot (GPS coordinates = 36.142298, -78.843700)…

  • Results, Shackleford Banks

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    We orienteered for the first time at Shackleford Banks, the Western tip of Cape Lookout National Seashore. After a chilly 20-minute ferry from Beaufort, we were free to play on the 8-mile long island, with only a couple dozen other humans, and over one hundred wild horses. Many thanks to park superintendent Jeffrey West and…

  • Results: Ft. Macon

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    From meet director, Carl: Thank you for bringing Orienteering to the coast. This was our 3rd annual event and we enjoy helping host it. This year we changed the start location to the West end of the park due to Covid and close proximity to visitors at the Fort. Because of the location change we…

  • Ft. Macon, 07 Feb

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    On Sunday, 07 February, we will have a 90 minute score course at Ft. Macon State Park in Atlantic Beach, NC.  A ‘score course’ means that you can visit any controls that you want, in any order — but if you don’t return within 90 minutes, you will lose lots of points.  Carl Briscoe will…

  • Shackleford Banks, 06 Feb

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    This event is sold out, and registration is closed. We will have a small event at Shackleford Banks on Saturday, 06 February.  We are limiting registration to 25 people because of Covid and because (unless you have your own means of getting to the island) competitors will need to ride over on the same ferry. …

  • Preliminary note about February events at the coast

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    We have been approved for events on Saturday, 06 February and Sunday, 07 February at Shackleford Banks and Ft. Macon, respectively. At this point, we feel that the only thing that would disrupt these plans would be severe weather that causes cancellation of the ferry to Shackleford. Details about these events should be available soon…

  • Results — Occoneechee Mtn.

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    On a near perfect day for orienteering, we enjoyed an expert-level event on a new map of Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area. Although it is a fairly small park, it has more than its share if interesting rocky features, steep cliffs, earth banks, and complex patterns of thick vegetation. These made the short courses pretty…

  • Occoneechee Mountain — 10 January, 2021

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    All of the spaces for this event have been filled, and so registration is now closed. Join us on January 10 for small orienteering event in a fantastic new venue — Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area in Hillsborough, NC.  We have a new map of this special area, and will be offering three courses for…

  • Eno Score-O Results

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    December Score-O, 2020: Eno River State Park A nice weekend brought nearly 50 orienteers to Eno River State Park for our annual score-O. This year, the pandemic made us re-think the event’s format so that participants could be more spatially and temporally distributed. The course consisted of 37 controls and was set by Friday. Participants…