The tornado of May 2025 passed through the western and northern portions of Forest Park, toppling or damaging nearly a thousand trees. Meet Director Bryan Niehaus designed an orienteering event that respectfully recognized this tragedy by using only the rootstocks of fallen trees for the check points.

Course options were a shorter point-to-point course with 15 CPs, or a longer “farsta” format course. A farsta is when participants start together and cover the same distance, but there are multiple loops, and each person does the loops in different sequences. Thanks Bryan for the summer fun!