Dear Fellow Scouters:
On behalf of the St. Louis Orienteering Club and the Greater St. Louis Area Council I would like to thank you for attending the 22th John Smerek Scout Orienteering Festival. The weather was clear and sunny. All in all, the scouts and scouters had a great time. The festival attendance was up slightly from 2025. This year we had 18 units with 136 participants.
Attached are the results from the 2026 Scout Orienteering Festival Score-O competition based on the punch cards received at the finish. The festival is designed to test a scout’s (buddy pair or three not groups of four or five) map reading and strategic planning skills. The awards for the top finishers are embroidered neckerchief slides. The scores were very good again this year.
I had trouble reading the names on a few cards, so I apologize for any names that are miss spelled.
The GSLAC Map and Compass Committee is hard at work designing next year’s course. If you have any ideas on how to improve the festival or you would like to join the committee, please let us know. Please talk up the festival at your district’s roundtable and encourage all your neighboring units to attend next year.
Next year’s 23th John Smerek Memorial Scout Orienteer Festival is scheduled for March 6, 2027. I hope everyone will be back again next year. The GSLAC Map and Compass Committee is putting on a “First Class Orienteering” course on May 16 and again in October. Go to the council website to register for these events.
If your scouts would like to do some additional orienteering the St. Louis Orienteering club puts on a local event each month, with courses for beginner to advanced orienteers. For more information visit the club’s website at http://www.stlouisorienteering.org.
The GSLAC Map and Compass Committee conducts adult leader training sessions for adults each year. Please check the Council Calendar for the date for the next session.
Yours in Scouting,
David Fisher
| 22th John Smerek Memorial Scout Orienteering Festival | ||||||
| March 7, 2026 | ||||||
| Total | ||||||
| Name(s) | # | Unit | Age | Penalty | Points | |
| David Fisher | 1 | 496 | 70 | M | 265 | |
| Dennis Brinkley | 1 | 778 | 60 | M | 190 | |
| Tim O’Donnell | 1 | 361 | 73 | M | 145 | |
| Auggie Midden | 3 | 361 | 12 | M | 140 | |
| Tommy Spal | 14 | M | ||||
| Liam Andrws | 12 | M | ||||
| Trey Ran | 3 | 750 | 13 | M | 135 | |
| Herry Johnson | 13 | M | ||||
| Soyn Berrong | 14 | M | ||||
| Cooper Bleigh | 2 | 100 | 15 | M | 115 | |
| Tristan Mapb | 13 | M | ||||
| Ryan Forbs | 4 | 750 | 10 | M | 90 | |
| Jack Carsen | 11 | M | ||||
| Drian Nasun | 12 | M | ||||
| Mason Phillips | 12 | M | ||||
| Landon Ehlert | 2 | 361 | 10 | M | 90 | |
| Devon Ehlert | 14 | M | ||||
| Jason Chierek | 2 | 179 | 45 | M | 90 | 65 |
| Oscar Chierek | 12 | M | ||||
| Peter Spal | 2 | 361 | 13 | M | 60 | |
| Aiden Flarm | 14 | M | ||||
| Carter Phipps | 3 | 776 | 14 | M | 60 | |
| Curtis Jones | 14 | M | ||||
| Treyce Byron | 12 | M | ||||
| Ryan Lechgec | 3 | 809 | M | 55 | ||
| Gaun Stxni | M | |||||
| Mich Jennings | M | |||||
| John Berrong | 3 | 750 | 11 | M | 55 | |
| Alex Vigil | 13 | M | ||||
| Borrett Tindra | 13 | M | ||||
| Lucas Miller | 3 | 750 | 13 | M | 50 | 45 |
| Josh Luner | 12 | M | ||||
| Sam Flynn | 12 | M | ||||
| Tristan Byron | 2 | 776 | 14 | M | 20 | 45 |
| Mason TenEucl | 13 | M | ||||
| Henry Domlade | 3 | 809 | M | 5 | ||
| John Applebaum | M | |||||
| Maximo Iganez | M | |||||
| Willian Allen | 6 | 975 | 72 | M | Rec | |
| Kent Ruffing | 58 | M | ||||
| Grant Pendley | 14 | M | ||||
| Nogan Schaub | 11 | M | ||||
| America Iha-Kannojie | 13 | M | ||||
| Julie Iha-Kannojie | 11 | F | ||||
| Competitors | 43 | |||||
| Teams | 17 | |||||