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Todays leg is leg 17 in HE from the Swiss Champs Long Distance 2006 in Crans-Montana at August 20th 2006 with OLG Wallis / CO Valais as organizers. First take a look at the map without routes – and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image ...

Orienteering without borders is the motto of the Thermenland Open orienteering event which was initiated three years ago as a cross-border cooperation project between three orienteering clubs in Slovenia, Hungary and Austria. An additional element to this project was the participation of athletes from Kenya at this year’s Thermenland Open ...

Todays leg is leg 2 in HE from the Swiss Champs Long Distance 2006 in Crans-Montana at August 20th 2006 with OLG Wallis / CO Valais as organizers. First take a look at the map without routes – and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image ...

– Thierry, you are one of the best map readers I have ever seen. But if you want to become the best, you must change your way of orienteering. You have to start building much simpler mental images of the terrain if you want to become faster. This was the ...

Todays leg is leg 5 from the Hungarian competition Borsod Kupa 2007 at 2007-06-02 for the category M21E. The tip is from Stig Alvestad – thank you very much to Stig! First take a look at the map without routes – and think about how you would attack this leg ...

Today’s leg is from an Australian National League Long Distance Event. Here is what todays Neil Barr writes about this: – Our club runs one of the two Route Gadget sites in Australia. I suspect this is the most utilised of the two. I have trawled through the routes for ...

Today a leg from a local night competition in Bergen, Norway. The leg in itself is maybe not very interesting – but interesting here is that widely different route choices are nearly equal in time. First the leg without routes: Update 2020: WebRoute Back in 2007 there was no WebRoute ...

Today: Estonia. A leg from Ilves 3-days competition, 2007-05-06, in the H20A/H21A/H35A categories. First the leg without any route choices. Update 2020: WebRoute Back in 2007 there was no WebRoute in Route to Christmas – this has now been added to all old ‘Route to Christmas’ in March 2020. You ...

Todays leg is the second leg from last years Forssa Games in Turku, Finland – at June 15th 2006. You find the final overall results here. Note that there is no route choice available for the winner Tero Föhr – and other strong runners like Jani Lakanen and Daniel Hubmann ...

One leg with potentially interesting route choice alternatives each day until Christmas is the topic of this years Advent Calendar here at World of O. Did you miss Day 1-4? No problem – so did I – so just enjoy the last 19 days instead. Today’s leg is the 9th ...