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.

Results

Thank you to everyone who braved the cold weather and came out to our annual John Smerek Memorial Scout O-Fest at Beaumont. We had a larger than expected turn out and everyone seemed to be having fun in the brisk beautiful woods of Beaumont. A special thanks to David Fisher and Nathan Graves who helped with directing and running the event. Coincidentally, David Fisher placed first in the Score-O division and Nathan Graves placed first overall on the Red Course. Congrats men! Let it be known that Nathan did not help set the course so had no prior knowledge of kite placement, however, I can’t speak the same for David :).

The results of the White, Green, and Red Courses are below. I also attached the Scout Score-O. We are already making plans to improve next year’s Scout Fest. Place March 11th, 2023 on your calendars!

Thank you to everyone who came out to our annual Kirkwood Night-O. We saw a lot of new faces and had a ton of fun. We hope to see you at another event soon.

Also, special thanks to the Ryan family, Kevin Minton, and Robert Bart for helping with clean-up!

Hope everyone had fun at this awesome course. A lot more people participated but these were the only scores shared.

Congratulations to all participants. It was a beautiful night and everyone put their brains and bodies to the test in our wonderful Kirkwood park. Give yourself a pat on the back for what you accomplished and if you want to get better, keep coming to our monthly meets! Next up is Cliff Cave Park on the morning of 10/31, directed by Jeff Sona. He puts on an awesome event! Details to be posted soon.

Results: 31 points total (24 controls and 7 of them were 2 pointers): 1 point was deducted for every minute over the 46 minute time and has already been calculated.

Hope to see everyone again soon!