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• The Orienteer's Mecca: O-Ringen

Although O-Ringen isn't a world championship per se, it's been won by many elite orienteers - typically someone with a last name that sounds Swedish, Finnish or Norwegian. But some new countries have recently made it into the sport's top echelon. The best male orienteer in the world today is a Frenchman named Thierry Gueorgiou. The best female is Simone N'iggli-Luder of Switzerland. To reach that level, they've trained in Finland and Sweden, respectively. There's a lot to take in at O-Ringen, but the main attraction is, of course, the orienteering itself. As a first-timer, I was nervous on Day 1. Swedish terrain is very different from Texas terrain. It's much more detailed - full of complex rock formations and marshy depressions, areas of "bare" rock covered with moss. It's perfectly de...

... thousands of travel trailers are parked and tents are pitched, and everything an orienteer could nee..."I was camping with some other U.S. folks. Each day was the same....

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. 21 Num. 24, Juin 2008
• News

• About face.

... for eight years, so I'm used to building tents and spreading tarps and sleeping outdoors and all ... to rain on our annual three-day spring camping trip in the scouts, never failed--so while the oth...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2002, Juin 2002