Today’s Route to Christmas features a long leg in the elite women’s class. As on day 4 we travel to Sweden and the Swedish Championships long distance, but whereas the featured men’s leg was a simple “straight or around on the road” leg, this one is more complex where it ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is a very long leg from Bulgaria – what a start for the Bulgarian Championships Long distance! Thanks a lot to Todor Kolev for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and ...

In today’s edition of  Route to Christmas  we travel to flat – but yet interesting – terrain in Finland. The chosen competition is the Finnish Championships, and the chosen leg is the long leg to control 8 in the men’s class. Thanks a lot to Anssi Vesanto for the tip! ...

In today’s Route to Christmas we travel to one of the most interesting orienteering countries, Switzerland.  The chosen leg  from the Swiss Champs Long distance, and the tip again comes from Jonas Wäfler. The forest is typically “Mittelwald” with many paths/roads, and variable runnability in the forest (white being fast, though). The leg ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is a long and interesting leg from the Swedish Championships Long distance. Thanks a lot to Jonas Wäfler for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is an interesting long leg from Hungary. The chosen race is the Hungarian Champs Long distance, and this time we look at the women’s course. Thanks a lot to Zsófia Sárközy and Tibor Vári – both suggesting this very interesting course. Course setter is elite ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is from interesting sandstone terrain in the Czech Republic. This time we study the Czech Championships Middle distance – with several international stars on the startline – based on a tip by Ladislav Semrad.  The leg is quite short – but gives you the ...

Ready for some pre-Christmas fun? Today we start the traditional Route to Christmas here at World of O with an interesting route choice leg from the Norwegian Championships Long distance, organized close to Trondheim. The international orienteering season 2020 has been nearly non-existent due to Covid-19, and we also already used 100 ...

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 ...

At the final day of Route to Christmas 2019 we travel to Norway and take a look at two legs from the Norwegian Championships Long distance. Both legs are from the M21E course, and both are long legs in hilly, marshy terrain with some road/path options.  With this I also ...