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

  • Photos from Cape Lookout

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  • Orienteering on the Coast — 01 Feb and 02 Feb

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    Registration for these events is now closed. Join us for a weekend of orienteering on the beautiful NC coast! On Saturday, February 01 we will offer expert-level courses (brown, green, and red) at Cape Lookout National Seashore.   You must be an experienced orienteer to attend this event.  Make reservations ($17 per adult) for the 10:00…

  • Preliminary information about Cape Lookout event

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    The orienteering events on the coast on February 01 and 02 will require some careful planning on your part, so we’re posting some preliminary information to help.  On Saturday, Feb 01 we will have three expert level courses (i.e., brown, green, and red) set around the lighthouse  area of Cape Lookout.  Start, finish, and registration…

  • Score-O Results

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    Another fun end-of-year Umstead Score-O is in the books. Sunday brought out nearly 50 orienteers to the north side of Umstead State Park, where 30 controls were spread over 15 square kilometers. Only one runner, Robert Enochs, was able to visit them all; although several competitors came close to Robert’s performance. Robert has won this…

  • 2-Hour or 4-Hour Score-O, Umstead North, 15 December

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    On Sunday December 15, BOK will host its 6th annual Score-O in Umstead park. A “Score-O” involves a course with no predetermined route, in which competitors decide which controls they want to visit, and in which order. This event will have 2-, and 4-hour options. It is open to any orienteers who have successfully completed…

  • Results — Chapel Hill Score-O

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    Another fun Chapel Hill street orienteering event is in the books. Thanks to all who came out! Results follow. Attempted controls that had the wrong answer are indicated in parentheses at the end of each competitor’s list 2-Hour 1. Vladimir Stemkovski  82 points = 12, 21, 22, 25, 44, 46, 49, 51, 57, 58, 59, 67,…

  • Street orienteering in Chapel Hill (Saturday, 16 November)

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    On Saturday, November 16 we will have an urban orienteering event on the streets and greenspaces of Chapel Hill.  This will be a mass start “score-O” in which competitors can chose which controls they visit and in which order, with different controls being worth different point values.  The competitor with the highest score at the…

  • GPS Orienteering

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    The Chapel Hill score course will be available as a GPS-Orienteering (GPSO) event. In order to use this option for the event, you will need an Android phone with the GPSO app installed, as well as some event data that I will distribute online. These data will consist of a map file, which I will…

  • Results, Carolina North Night-O, 14 September

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    In my opinion, Carolina North Forest is probably BOK’s best venue for night orienteering.  On one hand, there are a lot of winding, potentially confusing trails, making route choice and navigation –even if it’s largely on trails – somewhat challenging.  But because there are so many trails and junctions, there are almost always opportunities for…

  • Night orienteering, 14 Sept, at Carolina North Forest

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    Expert orienteers (i.e., those who have finished a brown, green, red, or blue course) are welcome to participate in a nighttime orienteering event at Carolina North Forest on Saturday, September 14.   We will offer four point-to-point advanced/expert courses (orange, brown, green, and red), with individual starts any time between 8:30 and 9:30 PM.  Control pickup…