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Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach is the founder of WorldofO.com - taking care of everything from site development to writing articles, photography and analysis.

Route To O-Season 2020: Day 100 (Final day)

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With the orienteering season slowly starting up everywhere these days, it is finally time to conclude the Route to O-Season 2020 series after 100(!) days. Today’s leg is a special one with some history and culture in it. Early in “Route to O-Season” Finnish mapmaker Jussi Silvennoinen, a mapmaker for several Jukola ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 99

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another sample from the Norwegian Mapant-project. This time we travel all the way to the southern edge of Norway, to Lindesnes.  Note! There may be “real” orienteering maps in this area, but I could not find any recent ones. The leg is as ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 98

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is a small celebration of the Norwegian “Mapant-project” – an orienteering map covering large parts of Norway following in the footsteps of mapant.fi for Finland. The first version of Mapant.no, covering around 50% percent of Norway,  is set to be published before summer. Read more ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 97

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In today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 we continue with our Jukola focus, but this time the leg is from an unofficial “replacement relay” for Jukola, the Impivaaran Viesti. Thanks to Caj Snickars for the tip! Here is Snickars’ description of the relay: The relay concept was interesting as it ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 96

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is the first leg from Jukola back in 2016. When you solve this leg, try to also write down a comment on which 1st control you choose (left, right or middle) The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 95

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is from Course of the Year 2010 – the Jukola relay of 2010 which was organized in real wilderness. We have chosen the final leg of the relay – and the route to the second last control. Note that some other legs from ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 94

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In today’s Route to O-Season 2020 we travel back to the long night leg on Jukola 2014. The chosen control is the 17th control in the dark forest… The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 93

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another one from Jukola – but this time we look at a forked leg where you can also choose forking control. We are now into the last full week of “Route to O-Season”, we’ll stop at number 100 as the season is ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 92

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Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is again from the Jukola weekend 2017 – but this time from the Venla relay, from the last leg. This is the only real routechoice leg in the course. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a ...

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Route To O-Season 2020: Day 91

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Today Jukola would have been organized if it were not for COVID-19, and therefore today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another Jukola leg. This time we go back to Jukola 2017 and the last leg of the relay! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – ...

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