Category: Latest News
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2017 Umstead Score-O
Updated information for Sunday’s score-O The 1-hour course has 20 controls and will be printed on 1 page. The 2-hour course has 39 controls and will be printed on 4 pages. The 6-hour course has 47 controls and will be printed on 5 pages. All maps will be printed at a scale of 1:10000. Because…
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Results for Chapel Hill Street-O
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…
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Bubbagoat Results
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…
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Results – Radio-O, 80m Classic, Oct-29, Carolina North Forest
Six orienteers decided to brave the threatening weather. They were well rewarded. We only had a couple short showers. This was the longest ARDF at CNF and we’ve reached the limits of this venue for classic events. We had two special participants. Imre showed up with a receiver kit he built himself and took first…
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Results — Carolina North night-O
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…
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Results for open event – Umstead North – October 15, 2017
We had a great fall day for orienteering with a large turnout that included 40 JROTC cadets. Some of the cadets were back for more after participating in a JROTC championship on Saturday. We also had three scouts from Troop 346 in Raleigh who are working on their orienteering merit badge who did a great…
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Results for September 24 event in South Umstead
We had a great turnout at our season start. Thank you all for coming! Even though the summer is behind us, it was still pretty hot, which made it harder for everybody. The courses were also more difficult than usual (especially Yellow and Orange) – there were quite a few DNFs. In addition, control #9…
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Schenck Forest Event Sunday, September 10, 2016
Sunday Morning update: Looks good see you at Schenck Forest… This is a Members only Expert event for Brown and above. You must pre-register. We have approval from Schenck Forest and Irma isn’t planning to arrive until Tuesday, so it looks like everything is OK for Sunday’s event. Do check back Sunday morning just to…
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Results — Wilson Park
13 August, Wilson Park Two dozen of the Triangle’s best orienteers gathered at Wilson Park in Carrboro for a pair of forest “sprints” on a brand new map. With winning times well above 20 minutes, these courses were quite a bit beefier than typical sprints, and in retrospect they probably should have been…