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City sprint: will be set in the historical town of Grafenau. The start, finish and event centre (as well as award ceremony after the event) will be in the Kurpark, right next to which is a large car park and also several motorhome parking spaces. There is an outdoor pool in the park for cooling off after the run. The running area is an interesting mix of open parkland and historic old town, both located on a steep slope to the right and left of the river Kleine Ohe.
Start times: in 2025 we will again start at 10.00 for 3 of the forest days, so that there is still enough time in the day to discover the sights of the region. You should definitely take the opportunity for a run up Dreisessel mountain, on the border with the Czech Republic! On the first day we will start at 12.00. On the last day, the city sprint, we also start at 10.00, so that everyone can continue their holiday, or head home, relatively early after the award ceremony.
Registration: we have already published all the important details on the “2025 Event Details” page. You can register here on Orienteering Online. As every year, the first participants to register AND pay their entry fees will receive their golden start number 1, 2 until 9 for 2025.
Accommodation: some runners have already contacted us and asked for help and suggestions in finding accommodation. We have put together some material here. First, take a look at the "Location" subpage to see exactly where the BF5Days 2025 will take place. We are in a remote part of the Bavarian Forest, but there is plenty of accommodation in the area, it might just take a bit of effort to find it, as a lot of the options are not listed on booking portals such as booking.com. We have put together our suggestions on our "Accommodation" page. There you will find links to the booking pages of all the neighbouring communities (Philippsreut, Haidmühle, Mauth, Grafenau, Waldkirchen and Freyung), where there are enough hotels and holiday apartments listed.
The Hotel Märchenwald in Bischofsreut, is only 10 minutes from the Event Centre on the Almberg days, here you can go directly to the website. Last year this hotel had good reviews from BF5Days participants.
Motorhomes: for those of you who want to travel with a motorhome: the laws in Germany generally point in the direction that you have to overnight at officially recognised locations. The local municipalities have put together a list of options for us. You can also find these on our "Accommodation" subpage. The Hotel Märchenwald in Bischofsreut also has spaces for Motorhomes. For a fee, you can use the showers in the hotel, certainly not a bad idea after a long run in the forest. The restaurant is of course also open to you, including a breakfast buffet for the hungry orienteer or just take advantage of the morning bread delivery service. Click here for information and prices.
In the immediate vicinity of the Event Centre at the city sprint on Sunday, the municipality of Grafenau has designated several motorhome areas. These are ideal for taking part in the city sprint. They are so close to the start, that they are even marked on the running map! The city of Grafenau has provided all the information here.
The design for the BF5Days 2025 OL shirts is ready. After the classic Bavarian design from 2023, the green wild forest design from 2024, we have opted for a vibrant, colorful design for 2025! At first glance, the design might be confusing, but if you look more closely you can see 3 runners, in an endless colourful pattern. The 3 runners are from the host countries of Germany and the Czechia, as well as our own green BF5Days runner. In the forest, this is sure to be an eye-catcher and I hope you like it as much as I do.
The shirts can now be pre-ordered on our website and can then be picked up at the race. Did you like our 2023 Lederhosen design? Unfortunately it has all sold out, but …..we have now a "year-neutral" Lederhosen shirt reprinted, which can be ordered in our webshop. Our hoodies and T-shirts can of course also be ordered again. Click here to go to our webshop and here to our “Merchendise” page with more information.
At the end of October, we spent a productive week in the Bavarian Forest. Ingo enlarged the Almberg map to the north, our Czech partners did the same with the Kubova Hut map and we also completed the Grafenau sprint map. The course planners have already started to create their course concepts. I met with the mayors of our host communities and was again pleasantly surprised by how open and welcoming they are to the BF5Days. Your participation in the BF5Days has a positive economic influence in our running locations and this is welcomed by the communities. The permission from our most important partner, the Bavarian State Forests, has been received, as have the land owners and the nature conservation authority. To summarise: we can begin!
We had wanted to take advantage of the good weather to test out the courses and pre-mark the control sites for the BF5Days 2024. Unfortunately, we chose exactly the wrong weekend: instead of sunshine we had 20cm snow. This made our work more difficult, but the forest was even more beautiful in the snowy silence. Below are a few photos from our trip.
The first detailed information, about the Event Centre, distances from start/finish and parking are now available in a PDF: Click here for the PDF.
This year we placed particular attention to keeping the start/finish distances short. The finish is always at the Event Centre and the starts are never too far away. We have already published the provisional course lengths: click here for course lengths.
The planning for the 2024 event is progressing nicely. There are some changes to previous editions: The BF5Days 2024 will take place on the first weekend of July 2024. After 2 years in Bodenmais we are moving to a totally new area in the eastern part of the Bavarian Forest in Haidmühle and Philippsreut, close to the tri border area with Austria and Czech.
We have permission from the forest authority to run in some wonderful forests that have never been used for orienteering before. We will draw the new maps this November, you can already see where the areas are located on our Location page.
City Sprint: Of course there will be a city sprint again. We will be able to run in the historic old town of Waldkirchen, often called the most authentic historic town in all of the Bavarian forest. The old town is of course located on top of a steep hill complete with city walls and old gates, but also has a more open city park. Small passages, cobble stones, route choices and a bit of altitude gain will be part of the run!
Start times. We will again be starting in 2024 from 10 AM onwards, on three of the forest stages, in order to leave you time to visit some of the interesting sites of the region. You must take a detour to the top of Dreisessel mountain, on the border with Czech. On the first day, we start from 12.00 onwards, at the city sprint from 15.00.
Sign up: We have already published all important information on the 2024 Event Details page. You can already sign up for 2024 on OrienteeringOnline here. The first runners to sign up AND pay their start fees will receive the start numbers 1 and 2, followed in order with 3 – 9.
Event shirts: We will offer again our legendary BF5Days orienteering tops in our web shop. Our new 2024 design is still a work in progress. We will publish it here once completed and add the link to our web shop.
I hope I will see you again in 2024 in the Bavarian Forest.
Your BF5Days Team
We had wanted to take advantage of the good weather to test out the courses and pre-mark the control sites for the BF5Days 2024. Unfortunately, we chose exactly the wrong weekend: instead of sunshine we had 20cm snow. This made our work more difficult, but the forest was even more beautiful in the snowy silence. Below are a few photos from our trip.
The first detailed information, about the Event Centre, distances from start/finish and parking are now available in a PDF: Click here for the PDF.
This year we placed particular attention to keeping the start/finish distances short. The finish is always at the Event Centre and the starts are never too far away. We have already published the provisional course lengths: click here for course lengths.
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