Please join us on May 27, 2012 at Chief Joseph Dam (near Bridgeport, WA) for a picnic style potluck to visit, trade geocaching stories and to hear about the D3 Geocaching Challenge.
This will be an outside event. The gathering is at a covered picnic area in a small grassy field with a playground for the kids. Attendees please check in at the main security gate. Turn off of Hwy 17 onto Pearl Hill Rd. and make a left onto Foster Creek Road and proceed to the security gate.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
Three dams on the Columbia River, Grand Coulee (Bureau of Reclamation), Chief Joseph (Army Corps of Engineers), and Rocky Reach (Chelan County PUD), are partnering to bring geocaching to their facilities.
Each Dam’s Visitor Center will hide three or four caches on their grounds, for educational purposes. Those geocaches will be activated on the day of the event, so you can begin the challenge after the event is over.
The challenge will be explained in more detail at the event, but in summary:
You can start and finish the D3 Geocaching Challenge at any one of the three dams. You begin at the Visitor Center where you will be issued a passport and questions. At each cache, participants will read something interesting and educational about the dam (history, fish passage, turbines, generators, etc). Write down your answers on the sheet provided. After finding the specific caches related to the challenge, return to the visitor center and show your answers. If correct, you will receive a stamp on your passport and a prize. There will be a unique passport stamp for each dam. Proceed to the other two dams, to do the same, and when your passport has all three stamps, you will receive a commemorative D3 patch (similar to the logo above) for completing the challenge.
Representatives from the dams will be on hand to explain the challenge, how the passports work and the prizes.
See you then.
