Thanks to all those who came out for a beautiful evening of Orienteering.
The Sprint courses were designed side by side with emphasis on the correct control cluster. After misplaced checkpoint 1’s, the course presented itself with some wide open orienteering with limited route choices.
We are holding our first Adventure Race this summer on Saturday, August 23, 2025. Mark your calendars and watch for our registration email around June 1. The race will begin at 7am with an 11am cutoff. It will be capped at 100 participants so get yourself or your team of 2, 3, or 4 trained up. The course will have trekking, biking, and paddling sections all while orienteering. If you don’t have a boat, no worries, there are rentals available.
If you are familiar with the Castlewood 8 Adventure Race this will be very similar but only 4 hours long. Held in a single park, the race setting will be great for beginners but still a challenge for those competitive racers. We expect a great field of teams to be out that day and hope to have new racers who have not experienced the amazing joy of adventure racing giving it a try for the first time. The course will take you on the park’s mountain bike trails, into the woods, and of course, paddling on Creve Coeur Lake, all while orienteering and strategizing how to gather checkpoints in the allotted time. There is nothing like an adventure race!
More information to follow soon!
It was rainy and chilly all day in the St. Louis area which made it hard to jump in the car and head down for a night of orienteering and probably wet camping. But for those that did, the drizzly, wet, and foggy woods were mystical. Night orienteering is hard. Night orienteering in wet and slippery conditions is harder. If you completed a course (or even found just a few CP’s), congratulate yourself.
A small group spent the night and dried out by the campfire. A few drove down for the Sunday morning courses. The middle distance was a welcomed relief.
Great to see the Washington High School ROTC cadets putting on another great performance. Thanks to the meet director (especially for keeping track of 55 total CPs!) Thanks to Yvonne and Mark for registration and all the others that pitched in. And a special thanks to Nathan Graves and Rick Armstrong for returning to the park on a different day to pickup the remaining controls.
