Comments on: Route to Christmas: Day 18 2024 https://news.worldofo.com/2024/12/18/route-to-christmas-day-18-2024/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 By: Jan Kocbach https://news.worldofo.com/2024/12/18/route-to-christmas-day-18-2024/#comment-135978 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:06:32 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=20545#comment-135978 Thanks, Jeff, highly appreciated! I have already looked at the NAOC long since I think it is a very interesting course, but unfortunately it is a bit tricky (and time consuming) doing a full analysis with Routegadget-courses, so I think I’ll have to skip this one, unfortunately.

]]> By: Jeff Teutsch https://news.worldofo.com/2024/12/18/route-to-christmas-day-18-2024/#comment-135971 Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:26:19 +0000 http://news.worldofo.com/?p=20545#comment-135971 If you’re still looking for route choice legs for Route to Christmas I’d like to suggest leg 9 from the NAOC Long F21 course (course 10) which is also leg 7 for the M21 course (course 11). You can find the race up on Route Gadget here: https://orienteeringca.nationprotect.net/cgi-bin/reitti.pl?act=map&id=945

I’ve seen lots of discussion online about leg 2 from the men’s course but not much from this leg.

A few notes about the terrain – the forest is runnable but is not super open – you have to fight a bit to really race in this terrain. The ski trails vary from runnable to quite slow with uncertain footing. Generally the steeper the slopes the rougher the vegetation.

Extra note – there was a route that was discussed by athletes after the race which was to go down the trail to the NE and out to the road and around through the arena and then back up the slope. Unfortunately this route wasn’t seen by the course planning team and and a part of the road was covered up by the control descriptions which might explain why none of the athletes saw it during the race. I’d be curious to see if anyone online comes up with that route.

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