O-Ringen Magazine. Nr 2 - 2022
The worlds biggest orienteering adventure. The mountains awaits! O-Ringen Åre 2023. July 22-28.
The worlds biggest orienteering adventure. The mountains awaits!
O-Ringen Åre 2023. July 22-28.
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During the second<br />
stage, all the courses<br />
will reach the mountains<br />
above the tree line.<br />
STAGES 1 & 2<br />
TRILLEVALLEN<br />
Photo: Niclas Lidström<br />
Stage 1, long distance, Trillevallen<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Åre begins with a long distance<br />
stage that mostly runs in the area where<br />
many of Trillevallens cross-country ski<br />
trails run. The ski tracks are prepared from<br />
November and usually well into May. Here,<br />
touring skiers with lunch bags and seating<br />
pads in their backpacks meet both elite<br />
skiers and exercisers with tight kilometre<br />
times as their goal. Early spring usually offers<br />
fantastic days with well-prepared tracks,<br />
sun, and fantastic views. Closest to the tree<br />
line, the area is dominated by mountain<br />
birch forest where visibility is usually good.<br />
The undergrowth is usually easy to walk<br />
through, but where the forest becomes<br />
sparser there can sometimes be denser willow<br />
thickets to get through. Further down in<br />
the terrain, there are mountain forests with<br />
mostly spruce and birch. There is also some<br />
pine, becoming more and more common<br />
further down the mountain. There is very<br />
little forestry in the area and the few new<br />
and grown-up clearings that exist will only<br />
be reached by the longer courses.<br />
The youth classes up to and including<br />
DH14, the open classes, the recreational<br />
classes and the short classes will start in an<br />
area with many ski tracks and hiking trails<br />
with some bogs. Here, the terrain is at first<br />
moderately hilly, but the longer courses<br />
pass sections with more significantly hilly<br />
terrain. Towards the arena, the hills increase,<br />
but the courses mostly run slantwise so it<br />
shouldn't be too tough. Other classes start<br />
in sparse mountain birch forest just below<br />
the treeline. Here, the terrain is very hilly<br />
from start but most of the courses run at<br />
the beginning before entering the same area<br />
described above.<br />
Stage 2, long distance, Trillevallen<br />
During the second stage, all courses will<br />
reach the mountains above the tree line. The<br />
very shortest courses come to just above the<br />
tree line, while the longer ones have most of<br />
the courses higher up on the mountain. On<br />
this stage, some courses will pass the top of<br />
TRILLEVALLEN<br />
the mountain Välliste, at the foot of which<br />
the arena is located. The all-time highest<br />
placed checkpoint on an O-<strong>Ringen</strong> will be<br />
one of the checkpoints on this stage, with<br />
an altitude of just over 1,000 meters above<br />
sea level.<br />
The elite classes and the longer difficult<br />
courses have the toughest time as they start<br />
a bit below the tree line with a string climb<br />
TRILLEVALLEN<br />
at the beginning of the courses. For these<br />
classes, the courses start in an area with mostly<br />
mountain birch, but with parts where fir<br />
trees restrict visibility. The runability is really<br />
good here. The difficulty lies in handling the<br />
varying visibility, it is important to maintain<br />
your orienteering when the visibility suddenly<br />
becomes worse. Other courses start higher<br />
up and have an easier start. On the mountain<br />
» Arena Trillevallen<br />
OL STAGE 1 LONG DISTANCE<br />
Sunday 23 july 2023<br />
ELITE TOUR STAGE 1 LONG DISTANCE<br />
Sunday 23 july 2023<br />
OL STAGE 2 LONG DISTANCE<br />
Monday 24 july<br />
ELITE TOUR STAGE 2 LONG DISTANCE<br />
Monday 24 july<br />
above the tree line the surface offers fast<br />
runability. Here, you have to be careful with<br />
the compass, as it is sometimes rather poor in<br />
detail. Of course, it becomes extra important<br />
to keep the direction when the sections go at<br />
an angle. It is no fun to have lost altitude and<br />
have to climb back up. The climbing is strong<br />
for all courses, but when fatigue sets in towards<br />
the end of the courses it is mostly downhill.<br />
Photo: Peter Holgersson<br />
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