Category: Event Results

Wet Sunday!

I finally got back to the New Year’s relay results. The problem seems to be that the battery in control #60 was dying and the clock kept running slower and slower. Unfortunately this meant that clock discrepancies appeared to be somewhere between about 5 min at best and 30 min at worst, with no single…

Sunday was a beautiful day at Umstead Park – clear and sunny. I wasn’t quite sure how it would turn out when Ken Walsh and I set out a couple of dozen advanced controls on Friday afternoon such as this one. Nevertheless, we had just over 100 people show up to enjoy the event. We…

    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…

It was such a nice day for being in the woods. Couldn’t have been better! We had a pretty good turnout at Raven Rock State Park – 51 starts! Thank you all for coming. It is a hard forest to get through and the map hasn’t been updated for many years. Both factors were in…

We had a very successful weekend with the Advanced/Expert open event at Robbins Branch on Saturday, followed by a Mass start Score Night “O” starting at Gray Owl and then an Open event at Gray Owl on Sunday. Ken. is helping with the results as there are several issues with some controls and a Start…

    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…

    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…

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…