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Lake Crabtree Sprint: Sunday August 23
On August 23, we will be holding a sprint orienteering event at Lake Crabtree County Park. The event is open to everyone, but we will not be offering beginner classes nor instruction. Registration will be in or near the Dogwood shelter. We are not able to reserve shelters, so if it is already taken registration…
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ARDF Results Aug. 16, 2020
We had a beautiful cool day. It felt like fall with the sun behind the clouds. Charles Scharlau set the course and eight people went out. This event was set up like an official ARDF classic 80 m course with a start corridor, becon, and finish. People found anywhere from 3-5 transmitters. One interesting note,…
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ARDF August 16 at Gray Owl
The event will start at 8AM and Transmitters will go off at Noon. The beacon will stay on until everyone has returned. The location is 1725 Gray Owl Road in Asheboro, NC. You must register for this event here! Thanks for your input about start times and course lengths. Charles can now design the courses…
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Gray Owl Results ARDF & O 8/1/ & 8/2/2020
Most people came on Saturday and just a few on Sunday. We started at 7am so the early birds could stay cool. Even so the humidity was so high that we were soaked setting out the 1.6k ARDF sprint at 6:30, just walking. Some people had a problem with control #10, only on Red, and…
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Two Day Event August 1 & 2
Orienteering & ARDF at Gray Owl Joseph & Ruth are going to host a two day event consisting of a classic orienteering event and an ARDF sprint event on the weekend of August 1 & 2, 2020. The Orienteering course will be offered on both days. The ARDF sprint is planned for Saturday, but will…
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Results for July 12 Advanced Sprint at Dorothea Dix Park
On a typical hot July day in Raleigh we had 17 brave orienteers come out for the sprint event. We had two courses of close to 3KM each with a shorter variant of about 2km. Everyone tried two courses. This was also the first opportunity to pick up the new BOK clothing items. See separate…
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BOK Clothing Pickup
The BOK Clothing has finally arrived. There are some issues with the sizing, so you may need to change your size selection. This will be done on a first come first serve basis. Hopefully these changes will all work out, however Oland will make additional products so that everyone can get a proper fit. Procedure…
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Gray Owl ARDF & “O” 6/20-21/20 Results
As summer was about to start, we had a few cool days. Then came the weekend. Saturday, for the ARDF event, wasn’t too bad, but Sunday was definitely summer and everybody suffered. We had more DNF’s than we’ve had in a long time. We used a new area of the Birkhead Wilderness for the ARDF…
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June 20-21 ARDF & Advanced Orienteering at Gray Owl
ARDF June 20, 10am – 2pm: We are planning an 80m Classic ARDF course on June 20 in the Birkhead Wilderness from a new start location at Wildlife Resources Commission Trailhead at 35.5974915,-79.8868486. Pre-registration is required. The precise Start location is about a 1.5 km walk from the trailhead. There will be five foxes, and…
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ARDF/Radio-Orienteering – 80m Classic at Carolina North Forest – 2020-05-31 – Results.
We had a nice day of radio-orienteering at Carolina North Forest. We had ten participants come out to search for foxes. The rain finally stopped the day before. The ground was still pretty wet but the temperature was wonderful. We have pictures from the event here. It was down-sized 80m classic. Shorter distances. No start…