Author: David Waller
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Score-O, 12/13 December @ Eno River
Registration for this event is now closed. Our annual December Score-O will be at Eno River State Park during the weekend of December 12/13. This event is open only to expert orienteers — those who have completed a brown, green, red, or blue course. (We are sorry about the relative lack of beginner-friendly events over…
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Results for Horton Grove (11 Oct 2020)
We had a nice event on a new map of our latest orienteering venue, Horton Grove Nature Preserve in Bahama NC. Many thanks to the land managers, Triangle Land Conservancy, for supporting the mapping of this park, and for supporting the occasional event that we hope to have there in the future. Despite the fairly…
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Expert event at Horton Grove, October 11
Registration for this event is closed. On Sunday, October 11 we will have an orienteering event at Horton Grove Nature Preserve in Bahama, NC. The event is open only to ‘expert’ orienteers – those who have successfully completed a brown, green, or red course. The registration page is here. As you register, please keep in…
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Brief introduction to orienteering in Horton Grove
Horton Grove is a 708 acre nature preserve north of Durham and managed by Triangle Land Conservancy. We will stage October’s event from its main parking area, which has space for approximately 25 cars, and is located at Latitude 36.142298, Longitude -78.843700. Nice weekends during the pandemic have brought relatively large crowds, and the lot…
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Results — Carolina North, 10 May 2020
Nearly every event report begins with a statement about the day’s weather, and that’s the function of this sentence. Mother’s Day 2020 saw fun times at Carolina North with the customary fast courses and multiple trail options. This event was originally planned to be the ‘foxchase’ format in which every other control is a common…
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Advanced Event at Carolina North Forest (10 May)
Registration for this event is now closed. Barring an extension of North Carolina’s stay-at-home order, we expect to be able to hold an orienteering event at Carolina North Forest on Sunday, May 10. The event is open only to ‘advanced’ orienteers – those who have successfully completed an orange, brown, green, or red course. Start…
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Results — Eno River, 22 March 2020
For the second time in two weeks – by coincidence – expert orienteers were treated to some long-form courses, with relatively few controls and relatively long legs that required careful route choice. The red course, for example, had only five controls and one leg that was over 2.3 km long. People really differed on their…
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Open event March 22 at Eno River State Park
Registration for this event is now closed. Because of the health risks associated with large gatherings of people, we are taking the following precautions for our March 22 event at Eno River. 0. We are limiting the total number of participants to 50. Current CDC guidelines limit gatherings to 50 people. Our limit of…
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Results for Ft. Macon (02.02.2020)
Sunday was a nearly perfect day for orienteering — sunny and in the mid-50’s. Everybody, from beginners on the white course to experts on the 90-minute score couse, used a new 1:5000 scale map with a 1.25m contour interval. These map specifications allowed us to put a lot of terrain detail into the map. The…
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Results from Cape Lookout, 1 Feb 2020
A chilly gray Saturday morning brought a couple dozen orienteers out to Cape Lookout National Seashore. Some had traveled from hundreds of miles just for the unique opportunity to orienteer at the Outer Banks, on National Park Service land. The twenty-minute ferry ride from Harkers Island passed by Shackleford Banks, where we hope to have…