A big thanks to David Welsh and assistant director Nathan Graves for putting on a great course in the beautiful St. Francois park. Also, thanks to all who made the trip to enjoy the park and the company of like minded map nerds.
Thanks to everyone that braved the wet-looking weather forecast and headed out to Forest Park. The weather turned out fine, with the occasional sprinkle, but otherwise a nice spring day. The park was crowded with other events, so traffic was an issue, but no one bothered our course.
This event was held in conjunction with the Missouri State Parks, “Wonders of the Outdoor World”. Their event was lightly attended and only 19 registrants selected orienteering as one of their three class options offered throughout the day.
SLOC participants had two options, a 45-minute score-O with 20 checkpoints/controls, or a 3.6 km point-to-point course with 12 checkpoints/controls. Several groups took the opportunity of the nice day and beautiful park to just roam recreationally. Checkpoint #8 was not in the correct location (a fault of the meet director), but everyone seemed to take it in stride. Jim Avery lost his key fob, and decided he would do a “micro-orienteering” course of circling repeatedly between 3 controls while searching. I hope things worked out okay Jim!
Thank you to the Missouri State Parks for asking us to help out, and to Bill Langton, Mary Pat Geldmeier, and Bryan Niehaus for helping at the registration table.
