Orienteering News

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another highlight from the Czech Republic – a leg from the Czech Championships 2019 in WOC 2021 relevant terrain. Thanks a lot to Eva Jurenikova for the tip. The course was already used in Route to Christmas (day 5 2019), but today ...

[Try out the competitions for yourself] With 500 participants from 20 countries taking part and 6 different countries in the Top 6 overall, the multi-stage virtual orienteering competition Easter Lockdown Orienteering has been the biggest international virtual orienteering competition so far in this special Covid-19 period.  That Grand Final winner was Casper Skepp of Sweden ...

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is a course from one of the biggest multi-day events in 2019: The Swiss O-week in Gstaad. The chosen leg is leg 28 in the M21E course from stage 2. Thanks a lot to Duncan Bayliss for the tip! The leg is as usually first ...

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is a leg from the route setting competition of the Norwegian Orienteering Federation, on the map where O-Festivalen 2019 was organized.  The chosen leg is the longest leg in the course set by Olav Lundanes. Lundanes finished third in the course setting competition -the ...

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another urban leg from Bergen Sprint Camp – this time from the CitySprint back in 2018. The same leg was used both in the men’s and the women’s course. Thanks a lot to Niklas Profors for the tip. The leg is as usually ...

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another leg from the epic World Orienteering Championship Long distance in France in 2011. This time we look at leg 13 in the men’s class – which was also leg 6 in the women’s class. The leg is as usually first provided ...

[To be updated] Creative orienteers all around the world find alternative orienteering activities in these difficult times when most orienteering races are cancelled due to the COVID-19 crisis. The activities range from different types of online orienteering competitions to mapping your own home. And those who are lucky enough to be able ...

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another epic leg from a World Orienteering Championships Long distance – this time from WOC 2011 in France. The chosen leg is the very first leg on both the men’s and women’s course – a leg which posed a big problem for many ...

The Route to Christmas archive is now up and running – providing an overview of every single Route to Christmas since the start back in 2007 and up until now. The archive also includes this year’s Route to O-Season. Nearly 400 o-puzzles collected in one page – enjoy! Thanks to ...

The Catching Features World Cup 2020 wants to bring together as many orienteers as possible for an online orienteering competition using the game Catching Features (CF). The first competitions is up on Saturday 11th of April. With the cancelling of orienteering events all over the world due to the COVID-19 crisis, orienteers ...