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Open ARDF Ranking Event and Expert Long Form Orienteering at Umstead North
Registration Closed 6:30 pm 3/14/20 When: March 15, 2020 Courses open from Noon – 3:30 pm Location: Umstead North, Multi Use Parking AreaGPS Coordinates: 35.867674, -78.752441 Frequencies: Beacon 3.59Mhz , Beginner 3.55 Mhz, Expert 3.51Mhz We will have Beginner ARDF (Radio-O) through Expert ARDF as well as Expert Long Orienteering courses. ARDF (Amateur Radio Direction…
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Carolina North results, March 1, 2020
We had a near perfect day for orienteering, except for two things. One is that the event director (Lina) got sick by Sunday morning. Luckily, Joseph and Ruth offered to run the event for her so Lina only had to set things up in the morning. The other incident is a little more worrisome: one…
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Advanced & Expert event Carolina North Forest March 1st
We are hosting an advanced event at Carolina North Forest on Sunday March 1st. There will be four different courses offered: Orange, advanced, 3.5 km (description of “orange” level below) Brown , expert, 3.8 km Green, expert , 5.4 km Red, expert , 6.6 km Event begins at noon and everyone must be back by…
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Results for Umstead North Feb 23
The weather today was perfect for orienteering and 101 individuals or groups showed up for some fun running through the open woods. Because of the great weather, many people registered later than normal and I did not have an accurate count when I printed maps. So for a short time we ran out of Orange…
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Results for open event at Raven Rock February 16, 2020
We had a good turnout for the event at Raven Rock, including some JROTC cadets who were back for a second day after the championships on Saturday. I forgot to clear out some data from Saturday so it has taken me longer than usual to post results. If your name is incorrect, please let me…
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Open event at Raven Rock February 16, 2020
We will have an open event at Raven Rock State Park on February 16 starting at noon. All are welcome. You will need to register at the BOK store by 5pm Friday February 14 as we are also working the JROTC event on February 15 and will have limited time to get maps printed. There…
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Results for Ft. Macon (02.02.2020)
Sunday was a nearly perfect day for orienteering — sunny and in the mid-50’s. Everybody, from beginners on the white course to experts on the 90-minute score couse, used a new 1:5000 scale map with a 1.25m contour interval. These map specifications allowed us to put a lot of terrain detail into the map. The…
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Results from Cape Lookout, 1 Feb 2020
A chilly gray Saturday morning brought a couple dozen orienteers out to Cape Lookout National Seashore. Some had traveled from hundreds of miles just for the unique opportunity to orienteer at the Outer Banks, on National Park Service land. The twenty-minute ferry ride from Harkers Island passed by Shackleford Banks, where we hope to have…
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South Umstead, Jan 26 2020 – results
There were 121 starts. It was a perfect day for orienteering and we had HUGE turnout. It really helped that some JROTC groups came and started early. The courses we quite challenging and we tried a couple of new control placement areas for advanced courses. Also Yellow course runners had to go completely off trail…