Orienterring or Orientation running with map and compass
In this instalment of ‘doing cool Norwegian activities with a pro’, we take on orienteering for beginners in the Norwegian woods.
This sport of orienteering is as much of a mental test as if it a physical one, as competitors use a map and compass to navigate through difficult terrain, searching for checkpoints.
Orientation running is growing in popularity, especially throughout Europe, and in Scandinavia in particular. Here we learn that navigating through the woods, without the use of an iPhone or GPS, is surprising challenging - especially under time pressure.
Our Norwegian expert on this occasion is Cornelius Bjork, a professional orienteer, who is given the difficult task of teaching us how to successfully navigate through the forest at Songsvann, just outside of Oslo in the sport of orienteering.
Orientation running and Norsk Orientering has 20.000 active members.
Orienteering with map and compass is not just a Norwegian sport, it’s a world wide orientation sport.
Orienteering on a professional level can happen at competitions like Venla Relay and O-Ringen and it’s Norwegian Name is orienteringsløb or Oløb for short.
Besides our lovely Orientation runner Cornelius, you also have people like Thierry Gueorgiou , Maja Alm , Andreas Kubicki , Daniel Hubmann and Hugo Lillieström.
Thank you to Norsk Orientering for creating a cool course for us and showing us how fun orienteering with maps and compass is and how maybe orienterings for beginners is like.
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Thierry Gueorgiou is a legendary World champion in orienteering Running.
The same when it comes to orientation runner Maja Alm.
Hugo Lillestrøm creates cool RU-vid video about Orienteering.
4 ноя 2023
