In today’s Route to Christmas we are travelling to Sweden to a Long distance Swedish League event in May 2016. The leg is the 9th leg from the men’s junior elite course.   The tip for this leg comes from Swedish junior Simon Hector. Hector writes that he wants to ...

See an overview of the suggestions for nominated athletes below. Monday December 5th at midnight CET is the last chance to suggest a nomination for the Orienteering Achievement of 2016.  Suggested athletes and achievements as of Sunday evening (through Facebook page, intro-article and e-mail) are given in the table below in arbitrary ...

Today we are travelling to Finland for a dark September night in Route to Christmas.  Arttu Syrjäläinen has tipped us about a nice long leg which was common for the men’s and women’s course from the Finnish Night Champs – thanks a lot for the tip! Note that the contour ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a long and decisive leg from the European Championships Long distance in Czech Republic in May this year. Today we look at the Women’s class – and the long leg to the 4th control were many runners lost several minutes. In this hilly ...

Today we have a 2700 meter long leg in Hungary on the menu for Route to Christmas! The race we are visiting today is the World University Championships (WUOC) Long distance – a competition which has gotten  a lot of praise. The leg chosen for Route to Christmas is the 3rd ...

25 sponsor prizes to be given away! A big thank you all for voting and nominating courses for “Course of the Year 2016″  – in the end the 5th stage of O’France won the “Course of the Year 2016″ overall. Read on to see if YOU won a prize as ...

Suggest a nomination for the Orienteering Achievement of 2016 and win great prizes! Remember that we are not necessarily looking for the best orienteer/team of 2016 – but rather the best achievements. There is one class for men and one for women – juniors can also be suggested, the same ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas takes us to a national youth competition in southwestern Norway – O-Idol. The terrain is quite tricky the first times you run there – and choosing the best route might also prove a bit difficult if you are not familiar with the terrain.  You ...

Jarkko Ryyppö, Joakim Svensk and Mats Troeng have made an orienteering map of nearly all of Finland based on publicly available laser scanning data and topographic maps from the National Land Survey of Finland using Karttapullatin. What an effort! In comparison, a human mapper spending 30 hours per square kilometer would ...

The first day of Route to Christmas 2016 takes us to Italy – to the Italian Championships Long distance in some interesting karst terrain at September 24th 2016. Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 4 in the M21 course. Thanks a lot to Matjaz Stanfel for the tip! ...