– It is one of the most difficult terrains I have ever been to, is Simona Aebersold’s description of the terrain of today’s leg in Route to Christmas. The map is Les Plans d’Hotonnes, and the race is a Swiss Selection Race over the long distance in May this year. The chosen leg ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is an interesting long leg in Norwegian terrain from a selection race for the World Orienteering Championships 2019. The leg goes through two different terrain types, and has two different components: Intensive mapreading and an interesting routechoice. Thanks a lot to Lucas Basset for ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a very interesting leg from the Swedish Championships Long distance, organized on September 15th. The chosen leg has been used both in the men and women elite course – and in both cases it is the 14th leg.  The leg is as usually ...

Ready for some fun? We start off this year’s Route to Christmas with an interesting leg from the Oceania 2019 Long Distance in Australia. The chosen leg is the 4th leg in the men’s class. This is not the longest leg in the race – we save that one for later ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg in Swiss alpine terrain – leg 5 in the M21 course from Swiss Champs Long distance. Thanks to Julian Bleiker and Peter Clerici for the tip. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is an interesting sprint leg from Euromeeting in Denmark in September. With the first ever Sprint WOC coming up in Denmark in 2020, there was big interest for the sprint-focused Euromeeting this year, with many top runners on the start. Thanks to Johan Aagaard for the ...

There are some legs where it seems impossible to find any really good solution, where you have to choose between several tricky and tough options. Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is one of those – a long leg from the District Champs Long for the Stockholm area in Sweden. ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the recent Guangdong Historical Road Orienteering Championships where some of the World’s best sprint orienteers have been gathered for a test ahead of next years’ World Cup races in China. The chosen leg is the 3rd leg from the WRE race in Sanjiang. Sanjiang ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the Baltic Championships Long in Latvia near the city of Rēzekne on the Tartaks lake map. This is fascinating terrain, and a great course with many nice and long route choices made this a day to remember. The chosen leg is the 19th leg ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a really intricate sprint leg from Czech Republic – which includes some interesting bridge crossings. The chosen leg is leg 5 in the M21 course from a World Ranking race in Plzen in May 2018. Thanks a lot to Ales Henja for the tip, ...