Family dominates in Lost Forester race

More than 50 people took part in the annual and unusual Lost Forester trail races last Saturday, Aug. 24 at Pine Valley Recreation Area in Cloquet.

The 5.5K race had 29 finishers and one who did not start. The race course was the most standard with weather that was sunny, warm, and humid. In a surprise finish, a 9-year-old, Dean Ervaets, came in first at 23 minutes, 40 seconds. Others who ran with Ervaets said he sprinted the whole way.

Then the race was all about the Gilbertson family.

Brothers Caleb, 14, and Carson, 12, Gilbertson finished second and third in 23:49 and 23:56. The first adult...