Thanks to everyone who came on a beautiful summer night. The two courses were kept at sprint length and out of the woods. But the route choices are what made the precious seconds matter. The top 3 were separated by seconds!

Below is a link to see split times to each checkpoint and Overall Results

http://obasen.orientering.se/winsplits/online/en/default.asp?page=classes&databaseId=83284

Thank you to everyone who made it out to the Carondelet O-Meet to celebrate the start of the Summer Series! Everyone seemed to have a great time and no one got run over by a bicycle during the Bike Crits so all was good. Also, a big thank you to Kevin Minton for designing the course, Mark Geldmeier for directing, and Bryan Niehaus for assisting. It takes a village to run a meet and we appreciate all the help. For those interested, the “sequence” event (French town names) was created to be similar in distance but exact distance was not the same for all sequences. Part of the fun was the luck of the draw!

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.

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!

Thanks for everyone who made it out to Saturday’s Tame the Dragon. Although weather and road conditions caused a delayed race start, we were still able to have a 7 hour race. Below are the results as well as some analysis performed by our race director Gary Thompson. Also, check out the strava flyby link below.

 Again, all controls were visited.  This year, #53 was the most visited (25), and #12 was the least visited (2).  By contrast, this year there were 503 control visits,  Last year there were 683.  What a difference one less hour and a little snow and ice can do!

Strava Flyby https://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/#6743671058?c=9yy0v4nk&z=E&t=1Y6b3S&a=EkH0kaQl8pHZ50KS5lD0kZws7ZHvOPmRwhHvkbp17pHib-2RRUjskQ

Thanks to Yvonne for setting a wonderful Winter O in Babler State Park. It was a frosty start from the outdoor shelter. Luckily the hills helped warm us up!

Sorry for checkpoint green 6 and red 10. The control was moved to the correct spot halfway thru the meet. Thanks Brian Rodenbeck.

Below are the results. Please email me jeffro1978@charter.net if you have any corrections

Dog Bone Course

Score O Course

Advanced Course

3Hr Score-O

1 Hr Score-O