Orienteering News

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Czech Republic – one of the countries which is really active with RouteGadget with a lot of interesting terrain for long route choice legs. This leg is from a regional competition in hilly terrain – and we are faced with a classical ...

For today’s Route to Christmas we travel far away from Europe – to Blue Mountain and the US Timetrails long distance. – Blue Mountain is lovely terrain. The forest floor is largely clear, with very little rock or vegetation underfoot for the most part, course setter Neil Dobbs explains. – ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg up in the northern UK on Holme Fell. The event was used as World Champs selection races, and thus there were a lot of top runners present. The terrain is quite marshy, with a lot of contours to be fought. ...

A long leg and many stones and boulders! Today’s leg in Route to Christmas brings us back to France again – but to very different terrain from what we have visited earlier in the 2011 edition of Route to Christmas. This leg is taken from a national league championship that ...

Today we are finally travelling out of Europe again – to some quite intricate terrain in the forests of Whitehorse in Canada! Todays leg is from the Western Canadian Championships Long distance 2011 organized on July 17th 2011. Thanks to Will Critchley for help with terrain description and analysis. The ...

In today’s edition of Route to Christmas we visit Hungary for another long leg in an ultralong event – although the leg is not as long as the Finnish one of yesterday. The leg is from the Men 21 Elite course in the Hungarian Ultralong Championships organized on April 4th. ...

Monsterleg! 4.5 km long! Today’s Route to Christmas is the longest leg in this years travel through the orienteering world. I choose a Saturday for it as I guess you all have some extra time for Route to Christmas in the weekend. Todays leg is leg number 34(!) in the ...

2000 votes and counting – YOU decide who will win “The Orienteering Achievement of 2011″. Prizes worth 2000 Euros are to be won by lucky voters. In the vote for “The Orienteering Achievement of 2011″, the best achievement of the year is to be named – and not necessarily the ...

716 people set up their Top 5 lists for “The Course of the Year 2011″ – and nearly 50 people suggested courses to be nominated. As a thank you to all participating, sponsor prizes are drawn among the ones suggesting courses and voting. All Top 5-lists and suggestions can be ...

Todays we are visiting a new country in Route to Christmas: Moldova and the Moldavian Championships long distance organized on May 14th. Compared to the legs we have seen the last few days, this leg does not have the same technical challenges and analysis possibilities, but one of the nice ...