Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is leg 14 from one of the most interesting sprint courses this year – the European Championships (EOC) Individual sprint in Belgium.  This course has also been suggested for Course of the Year 2025 (vote here until Monday December 22nd), and was one of ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a leg in spectacular surroundings from the 7th Swiss National Event this year at Long Heinzenberg.  – A never before mapped gem with as always in the swiss mountains stunning surroundings and views, Silvan Ullmann wrote when nominating this course for Course of the ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the Victorian Long Distance Championships at Mount Korong in Australia. This was an epic competition with some extraordinary long legs!  The 5th and 9th leg are even more spectacular than the 4th leg chosen here, but I found the 4th leg more ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a long leg from the 3+3 Long distance in Sälen, Sweden this summer – and the same leg was used both in the men’s and women’s elite course. This one looks fun and challenging! Thanks a lot to Hugo Claesson and Eva ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is an epic 3.8 km long leg from the “long night” of the largest international orienteering relay, Jukola. And what a leg – here you can get mentally exhausted just by trying to figure out where to run!  Thanks a lot to Agnar Reolen for ...

After 5 days of voting, courses from 10 countries are represented in the Top 15 of “Course of the Year 2025″. And what a collection of great courses! Take a look at the courses below, and make your vote if you have not voted yet. Note that the order of the courses listed ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is the 14th leg from the European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) in Czechia. A few days ago we featured a leg from the EYOC Long distance, so at EYOC the route setters really did a good job in great terrains. Thanks a lot ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a leg from the French Championships Long distance in hilly terrain which gives some nice opportunities for route choices. The tip from Eva Jurenikova from this competition was actually for another leg (leg 11, M21), but after reviewing the course I decided ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is another leg from hilly Czech terrain – this time from the European Youth Orienteering Championships Long distance. This is the type of leg where you HAVE to decide where to run before leaving the control … Thanks a lot to Stanislav for suggesting ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is something very different from what we have seen so far – today we travel to Switzerland for a Sprint leg. Thanks a lot to Silvan Ullmann, course setter at the Knock-Out sprint at the World Cup final, for a very long and detailed analysis ...