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.

Category: Event Results

  • Umstead South Amphitheater, Sprint

    The second event of the Summer Sprint Series was considerably less technically challenging than the previous sprint event, with Joe and Ruth designing courses much closer to a Yellow difficulty. The first start of the day was at around 8:20am, and about half of the people who went on a course today were out in…

  • Umstead North Sprint

    For the first of the Summer Sprint Series events we had some welcome relatively cool weather. The slight rain remnants left on the leaves helped to cool off runners, although the combination of drips and fogging certainly made vision problematic for those running with spectacles. However, we had nothing like the record breaking high temperatures…

  • Lake Crabtree

    This month saw yet another new map for the Backwoods Orienteering Klub, this time at Lake Crabtree County Park. This is a small park, but it proved perfect for a sprint event. The woods were highly runnable, and the park is crisscrossed by numerous winding mountain bicycle trails. Most runners quickly learned to ignore the…

  • Umstead Park, Camp Lapihio

    Control setting: Michel Tharp, Joseph Huberman, Ruth Bromer Course consultants: Joseph & Ruth Control Pickup: Bill Ebenstein, Michel & others, please let me know! Bathroom Cleanup: Michel, Ken. Hanson, Terese Camp

  • Umstead Park Training Event

    Course Design, Control Placement & Start/Finish — Vladimir & Tania Stemkovski

  • Index to Old Results

    Use this link for an index to the old results that haven’t been moved to our new web yet.

  • Lake Johnson meet – December 7, 1997

    The December 7 Lake Johnson meet was clear and cool.  The first time on the new map.  Doug used it quite well except for one technicality — he guessed on “which rootstock” on a clue, and of course got it wrong.  Since he is such a perfectionist he took some ribbing from the others.  Here…

  • Umstead West

    The tragedy of errors on November 23, 1997 at Umstead West.