TRAIL ORIENTEERING

Conventional orienteering combines fast running with precise navigation, typically through forests or over moorland. Trail Orienteering (Trail O) is a discipline of the sport designed so that people with disabilities could have meaningful orienteering competitions. It completely eliminates the element of speed over the ground, but makes the map-interpretation element much harder. Able-bodied people can compete on equal terms with the disabled.

This site is maintained by Anne Braggins, who chairs the International Orienteering Federation's Trail O Commission.

This website contains:

A more detailed introduction, another article introducing Trail O, and some examples of 'answers' with explanations
An illustrated leaflet in Adobe Acrobat format which can be downloaded for printing
Information about permanent Trail O courses
Information for event officials (controllers, planners, mappers, and organizers), including the IOF Controllers' Clinics with material added in January and July 2006 and August 2007, including an example results calculation spreadsheet in Excel and Swedish Guidelines (in English) for Pre O
Information about youth development including the Youth Sports Trust's TOP courses
Links to relevent organizations in many countries and IOF Rules for Trail O including map specifications and eligibility information
IOF event results including 2007 European Championships, 2006 European and World Trail O Championships 2005 World Trail O Championships, Aichi, Japan, European Championships Asiago, Italy, 2004 and World Trail O Championships, Vasteras, Sweden 2004 with many maps and solution sheets
BOF Event Results and solutions -JK2007 - 2006 British Championships and JK 2006 and BTOC 2005 (Penhale) results all in Adobe Acrobat format
Event calendar
Results Day 1 and Both days for British Trail O Championships 8&9 September 2007
Results of, and information on, a demonstration of a new form of Trail O, Tempo, in July 2007

Site last updated 10th September 2007 by Don Braggins.