1st Annual NCGO Fall Fling
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The North Carolina Geocachers Organization is hosting its
first annual Fall Fling Event!
9/11/06 Update: Bring Chairs! The shelter
we are in does not have nearly enough seats for the numbers
expected.
Also, post a will attend log with the number of people coming by
September 16 if you want to have dinner!
In early September, NCGO celebrates its 1st anniversary as an
organization. This event is to celebrate that achievement and to
say thanks to all of those who have supported us with money, time,
advice, participation and in so many other ways. And yes, it's also
a convenient excuse to get lots of geocachers together for some
comraderie and fun!!!. Out of state cachers, new cachers, old hands
and even the curious are welcome to attend and we hope you do.
Please post a will attend log to let us know if you can come,
how many people will eat dinner (adults/kids) and if you will be
camping either night. After all, you wouldn't want us to run
out of food before you got any now would you?!
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| When |
Saturday, September 23, 2006 - All Day. There will be
some of us camping out the night before and probably some camping
out on Saturday night too so people will be around most of the
time.
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| Where |
Cedarock Park in Alamance County
Cedarock Park is located 6 miles south of I-85/40 (exit 145), just
off of Highway 49. The park is open from 8:00 AM to dusk. See the
park webpage for more information. There is an historical farm,
disc golf course, hiking and biking trails and lots more!
Here is a
Park and Trail Map. Print yourself a copy before coming. We
will only have a limited number of these to give out at the
event.
We will be having most activities at Shelter #3
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| Schedule |
| Day |
Time |
What's Happening |
| Friday |
Evening |
Camping |
| Saturday |
7:00 - 9:00 |
Donuts and coffee at Shelter #3 |
| 9:00 - 11:00 |
Friendly game of disc golf. Bring your discs. If you have
extra, please bring them to share. This will be for adults and
kids. Prizes for the "winners" and winning doesn't always mean the
lowest score!!! |
| 12:00 noon |
Lunch: Bring your own food but we'll fire up the grill for
anyone who brings hotdogs, burgers, etc. Cook your own but we'll
supply the coals and some utensils. NCGO will provide bottled water
and drinks for kids like Kool Aid. |
| 1:00 - 4:00 |
Multiple activities
This is time for you to cache, hang out with us at the shelter,
play games or whatever you want. |
| 1:00 |
Scavenger Hunt for the kids!
Kids can find thinks in nature and even do a little bit of CITO
while they're at it! |
| 1:00 |
Geocaching Class
Real live educators from Smithfield who have developed training
materials and taught geocaching for awhile now will be on hand to
teach a class to anyone who is interested in learning more about
geocaching! |
| 4:30 |
Silent Auction Ends
Winners announced and items distributed. Must be present to
win. |
| 5:00 |
NC Micro Coin Design Winners Awards
Awards presented to the people who submitted the winning
designs! |
| 5:00 |
Dinner: Available only to people who register (post a
will attend note here with people count) no later than Saturday,
September 16. NCGO will supply skirt steak seasoned and grilled to
perfection by horsegeeks and their secret sauce!, fixin's, at least
2 sides (pasta salad & one other) and some other stuff.
Don't let that stop you if you care to bring something to
share. There's always room for more! |
| All Day |
Caching in the park! There are plenty to keep you busy here. We
will provide handouts showing all the caches in the park with full
cache pages for each. We will also have a laptop to transfer
coordinates to your gps! |
| Night |
Camping with stories around the campfire. |
| Sunday |
All Day |
There will not be any planned or organized activities, but the
park is open and the caches are plentiful! |
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| Food & Stuff |
See the schedule above for a description of what NCGO will have
in the way of food and when it will be available.
We will provide bottled water beginning at 9am Saturday and hope
to have several large coolers of Kool Aid for kids at least during
meal times.
NCGO will have plenty of prizes to give away. Some will be awarded
for winners of games during the day, others just for being there to
hear your name drawn!
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| Camping |
The camping is rustic.
Cedarock Park park has a tent camping area, for FREE that is
a short ways from the parking area for any one interested. Camping
is 1st come 1st serve, but that is no problem, there are always
empty sites. There is no electricity, running water, or showers,
but there are restrooms with running water about 1000 feet from the
camp sites. These sites are close to the parking area - guessing
about 1500 feet. There are fire rings for us to use.
Bring tents and all the stuff that goes with it. Don't forget
flashlights/lanterns, water, cards or other games to play, etc.
Also bring some good stories or jokes! Bug spray is a must!
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| Prizes! |
- 10 Kiwi Geocoins
- NCGO 2006 Geocoins
- www.coinsandpins.com surprises!
- www.luggage-and-leather.com surprises!
- Magellan Explorist 200
- Groundspeak surprises!
- Hats and shirts from Garmin!
- We will have our 2006 North Carolina Micro trackable
geocoins in time for this event thanks to CoinsAndPins! Purchasing
here will save shipping and we'll be giving some away too!
- MrsParrothead has donated a Parrothead geocoin!
- 3 Jason of the Horsegeeks geocoins!
- NCGO has some new pens and can coolers. Some to give away or
you can buy one at cost if you don't win one or if you want
extras.
- The latest batch of NCGO t-shirts will be available for pick-up
if you preordered, or for puchase if you didn't and if we have your
size.
- 2 Day packs, a navigator set and a subscription to Wildlife in
NC from the NC Wildlife Commission!
- more to come but you'll have to be here to find out
what!
Very special Thanks go out to all who have donated items to
help make this event a special one!
HexTheKiwi
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