Category: Event Results

This was our first night event at Schenck Forest.  The Dog Bones format requires that two controls be done as a pair without another control between the pair.  It was arranged so that 41 and 51 had to be done together and the others followed suit i.e. 43-53, 58-48 etc.  The point value was the…

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,…

Line-O results 2014-09-21 Lake Crabtree County park

We had great weather for the event and the woods were lovely. A few green sections, but mostly quite easily runnable. We had some technical difficulties generatign the results because of a broken wire in the download box cable. I believe I now have all the results, but if you can’t find yours, please let…

Thanks to everyone who came to the event! The weather was perfect and we had a chance to see a lot of birds (including a flock of woodpeckers) visiting the clearing near the shelter. The courses proved to be rather difficult (at least judging from the result times). Two controls gave most difficulty to the…

The sprint event at at Lake Crabtree County Park, was a lot of fun. After a week with plenty of rain, we thought Sunday would be relatively fine. At around 9:30 or so, a huge thunderstorm rolled in as Pat and I were setting controls. With my map now an illegible sodden replica of its…

  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,…

First of all I want to thank everybody who helped with this event. So many people contributed, even a few people who weren’t able to come to the actual event! Joseph Huberman and Ruth Bromer – designed courses, printed map, provided overall organization. Joseph also taught the beginners class Ian Shields – set ribbons Kelly…

We had perfect weather for the Mother’s Day Sprint at Lake Johnson and we started early to get ahead of the heat. Ruth designed the courses so the pace would be fast.  The difficulty was mostly Orange and Vladimir topped the speed at 8:20 per K for the best run of the event. We started…