Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is an exotic one for many – we travel to Japan for a routechoice leg from the Japanese Long distance orienteering championships. This course was suggested for the “Course of the Year 2023″ – head over and add your nominations for “Course of ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is an intriguing leg from the men’s course in the Junior World Orienteering Championships Long distance in 2023. Lots of contours and many possible choices – what would you choose?  The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 6 in a shortened Long Distance organized in Tenerife in early January. Thanks to Alvar Palmén for the tip and to Thierry Gueorgiou for help with the analysis. The course is from a training camp at Tenerife with the national teams of Norway and Finland ...

[See all nominations here] Monday December 18th is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2023″. We already got 47 nominations in the comments to the intro article  – most of these are high quality courses which will be part of the voting in “Course of the Year 2023″. Based on ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 3 in the Men Elite course from CAOM2 023 Day 2 in Portugal – a Long distance World Ranking event. The terrain looks nice and hilly, with the opportunity for some interesting routechoice leg. The chosen leg is as usually first ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 8 in the Men Elite course from Göteborgspremiären 2023. A medium long leg in quite technical terrain. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 5 in from the long distance event at Day 2 of Lipica Open 2023 in Slovenia – in a nice and quite technical karst terrain. I got hold of the one who ran the fastest time of the leg – Gustav Hindér – ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 15 in the Oceania Orienteering Champs Long at the very start of the year. I’ve searched for legs outside Europe, and was happy to find this one! Thanks a lot to the leg winner Aston Key to let me know his thougths ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is the 7th leg in the Men’s class in the Swedish Championships Long distance. Thanks a lot to Björn Johansson for the tip! And as a reminder – I still need tips for interesting legs for Route to Christmas. You are especially encouraged to suggest ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is the longest leg from the Swiss selection race for the World Cup in Norway, the 4th National orienteering race of the year in Switzerland.  This course was suggested (as an honorable mention) from Ivar Lundanes for “Course of the Year 2023” – ...