6th Annual Texas Challenge Event Event Cache

6th Annual Texas Challenge
March 22nd 2008 - Lake Mineral Wells State Park
32.49.167 - 98.02.516

Facilities & Camping

Texas Challenge 2008 will be held at Lake Mineral Wells State Park on March 21st, 22nd, and 23rd with the main event on the 22nd.

Please make your camping reservations ASAP as this park fills up very quickly. Park phone: 940.328.1171.

The cache page will be used as the primary source of information so please add this Event Cache to your watchlist as we will be posting a note anytime we add or change information related to the event. Please visit the Texas Geocaching Forum for discussion regarding the event. This is where to post your questions and comments.

For those camping at the park please make your reservations as early as possible. Someone may be willing to share a site so check with cachers in your area or post a note in the Lodging Topic.

Lodging and RV Park Information Page

The Event

Registration:
Closed !

Saturday Dinner: 2:00PM Immediately following the hunt!
Baker's Ribs will be catering dinner. Meal tickets are $8.50 per person.

Geocoins:
$9 each.

Shirts:
$11 each.

The Game

The Challenge:
The yearly Texas Challenge event is a competition between 4 regional teams. These teams are Southeast Texas (SETX), Central Texas (CenTex), North Texas (NTX), and West Texas (WTX). SETX encompasses Houston and surrounding areas, Beaumont, and Pineywoods. CenTex encompasses the San Antonio and Austin areas. NTX encompasses the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.
We realize that not everyone fits exactly into one of these areas and in that case you are free to pick a team. For that matter, if there is someone that lives in one of the defined areas, it's ok to compete on a different team if you have friends or relatives that you want to compete with, but most cachers do choose to compete in the area that they live. If you are unsure what area you want to compete, then you can let us know and we can wait until we have more of the registrations in and place you on a team that could use more hunters based on numbers.

Rules and game format

Special Events

Friday Night! The Bedrock Bash!

Camp Li'l Cacher is a go! We will have activities and events for any kids that want to hang back at camp. Meet up at the main dining hall. It will keep the kids busy from 9:00AM-2:00PM. We will have you "log" your kids in so we can "log" them out. Just like Travel Bugs-we don't want to lose any! We will have snacks for them but if they are especially carniverous, you might want to send a sack lunch.

Saturday Night Event! Saturday Night Fever hosted by AnthonyV and the San Antonio Geocaching Association.

Sunday Morning Breakfast

Early Bird Marshmallow Madness

Texas Challange 2008 Easter Egg Hunt

Sunday morning church service: There will be a generic Protestant Service offered at the Ampitheater by a guest speaker from our geocaching community at 8:00AM.

Texas Challenge History

2007 - Brazos Bend State Park - won by CenTex
2006 - Inks Lake State Park - won by CenTex
2005 - Cedar Hill State Park - won by NTX
2004 - Huntsville State Park - won by NTX
2003 - Fort Parker State Park - won by SETX

The event organizers will not be responsible for trackables lost or missing in connection with this event.