When: Saturday, August 30th (Labor Day Weekend)
Time: 9:00 am until 6:00 pm
Where: Newport News Park
Shelters 10, 11, and 12
Who: Open to all geocachers, families, and anyone
interested in geocaching
What: A social get together to meet fellow cachers,
exchange stories, learn about different aspects of caching,
exchange TB’s, oh yeah, and some caching thrown in there too….
Newport News Park is an 8,000 acre park with two fresh water
reservoirs is one of the largest municipal parks east of the
Mississippi. It features bicycle and boat rental, 188-site
campground, golf course, horse show arena, interpretive programs,
wildlife rehabilitation center, picnic shelters, playground,
restrooms, stages, 30 miles of hiking trails, 5-mile mountain bike
trail, and 5.3 mile bikeway, picnic shelters, and much much more!!!
Personal boats (no gas motors) may be launched for a $4.00
fee.
Targeted timeline of
events (subject to change of course, as things usually
do….)
9:00 - Event Starts
9:30 - Start of Geo-Bingo, Turkey Shoot, Coin
Sales, 50/50 Raffle, Chance Auction
9:30 - 11:30 - Cache Toss with Chico
Noon - Lunch - We'll provide Fried Chicken,
and BBQ
1:00 - 3:00 - Basic Geocaching Class with Chico
and Brenda in the Camp Activity Building
1:30 - All TB Racers must be checked in
2:00 - Turkey Shoot ends
1:00 - 4:00 - Children's Activity - "Cache Camp"
with LeoCaptKirk!**
3:30 - TB Racers will be distributed
4:30 - GROUP PICTURE
5:00 - Chance Auction ends and 50/50 Raffle
Drawing, GeoBingo Drawing, Turkey Shoot winner announced
6:00 - Official Event ends
**Please note that the "Cache Camp" for kids is not a babysitting
service. Please supervise your children at all times.
We'll provide the main dish, and
ask that geocachers bring some potluck side dishes.
Activities throughout the day:
- "Geo-Bingo"! Join CraZy Cache for this
super fun game. This is the best way to meet others at the
event and to get to know fellow cachers even
better. Turn in your completed Geo-Bingo pages by
5:00pm and a drawing will be held for a prize!
- Great Scott's "Turkey Shoot". - Use your GPS to mark a waypoint at the
pre-designated spot. 2 minutes max time will be allowed
for marking the waypoint and one entry per geocacher. All
entries will be averaged together. The geocacher that is
closest to the average, wins a prize. Get entry forms from
Great Scott! and return them to him by 2:00 pm.
Winner to be announced at 5:00pm.
- "Cache Toss" with 2UnusualSuspect! Separate
contests for children and adults. See how far you can throw
an ammo can. Sounds easy, right? Not if it's full of
SAND! Stop by at your own pace between 9:30am and
11:30am to try this out!
- 50/50 Raffle to help offset costs. Drawing will be held
at 5:00pm.
- Chance Auction - A new twist on an old favorite.
Items will be on a display table with paper bags in front of
them. Buy tickets, and place tickets in the bag in front of
the item you'd like a chance to win. An item you really
want?? Buy more tickets, and put them all in one bag
increasing your odds. Tickets will be drawn at
5:00pm. Tickets will be on sale throughout the
day.
- "Cache Camp" for kids with LeoCaptKirk. 1:00pm
- 4:00pm in Shelter #12! Geocaching related coloring books,
cache containers with glue and cammo cloth to decorate their own
containers, and some planned activities at 3:00pm including
- 3-legged race. Teams of two, one race for teams
with at least one child under the age of 12, and one race for teams
consisting of two members 12 or older.
- Water Balloon Toss. Teams of two, one toss for
teams with at least one child under the age of 12, and one toss for
teams consisting of two members 12 or older.
- Wacky Clothes Race. Teams of four. Any age.
- Pinata. Under 12 only.
Sign up by 2:30. Parents - please supervise your children
during these activities.
Bugs and Coins:
There will be a TB exchange area to drop off and pick up travel
bugs to help them towards their goals. There will also be a
designated area that all coin enthusiasts can gather to share/trade
their collections with others.
Please do not drop your coin collections into the event. Please
only drop TB's/Coins that specifically want to move via other
cachers or 1 personal TB or Coin.
There will also be the start of a TB race
conducted by VAEaglesFan. Here are the details:
All Travel Bugs to be entered in
the race must be new; that is, they must not have been dropped into
any cache prior to the 6th Annual GCHR Picnic Event
cache, so they will all have the picnic as a common starting point.
Geocoins can be entered in the race and will be treated as Travel
Bugs.
All racing TBs and Geocoins (Entrants) should be dropped
into this 6th Annual GCHR Picnic cache
page prior to August
30th.You can have as many Entrants as
you like. There WILL NOT be travel bug tags available
at the picnic. Tags can be purchased at
Groundspeak.com.
Please include a picture of your
racer on your travel bug page, and give it a goal of winning the
GCHR Travel Bug Race so everyone will know to move it as fast and
as far as they can!
All Entrants MUST be
turned into the Travel Bug Race box at the Picnic no later than
1:00 PM. Don't take them to the travel bug trading table.
Volunteers wanting to pick up race Entrants should sign in with TB
race coordinators (VAEaglesFan and sidekick) by 2:30 PM. Preference
will be given to volunteers who do not have an Entrant in the race.
At 3:30, all Entrants will be distributed to the volunteers who
have agreed to move them to their first cache.
Owners of the Entrants in
the race are expected to show good sportsmanship with regard to
other Entrants. This means that if you find another TB/Geocoin
which is entered in the race, you will take no action that will
unreasonably hinder the Entrant's movement. This includes, but is
not limited to, picking up and holding the Entrant or placing it in
an exceptionally difficult or rarely visited cache. Owners of the
Entrants are not permitted to move or hold their own
racers.
The race will end
on April 1,
2009. The standings will also be posted on the Virginia Geocachers web page
approximately monthly, and at the end of the race. A TB race
page will also created where you can follow the racers in near real
time.
There is a $2.00 fee per
Entrant that will be used for the prizes. The more Entrants racing,
the larger the prizes.
Prizes to be awarded at an
event TBD.
Entrant which logs the most miles. TB/coin must still be active at
end of race.
Entrant which logs the least miles. TB/coin must still be active at
end of race.
First Entrant to go MIA.
New Caches:
Cache placements are open to anyone who would like to place a cache
in Newport News. To have a new cache included in the booklet
for the event, the cache must be published on www.geocaching.com one week before
the event. Please allow time to get your permit (which is
required for all placements in NN Park) and for it to be reviewed
and published.
Existing caches located in Newport News Park:
Please see Great Scott!'s Bookmark listing for all caches currently
in the park!
How can you help??? Here are a few
suggestions:
- Bring a pot luck dish to share
- Consider contributing coolers full of drinks (ie: water, sodas,
etc…)
- Donate a door prize - anything geocaching related, or outdoor
related would be good.
Please post a note or will attend log (NOT
A FIND YET) to let us know you will be attending, how many in your
group, and what you will be bringing. Put this listing on your
watchlist, as we will try to update this page regularly with a list
of what is on the way.
Attention Camping
Cachers!
It is Labor Day Weekend! We have taken the
liberty of reserving 25 camping sites at Newport News Park. We have
scoped out and secured the best sites available on the best loop
(loop ”B”). If you would like to secure a site for Friday and/or
Saturday and/or Sunday night please contact CraZy Cache. Campsites are
first come first serve. All sites are equipped with water and
electric and will accommodate either a camper, a pop-up, or two
tents. All sites have a maximum of 5 people or 1 family per site.
Sites are $31/night.
Hotel lodging
information can be found by
Clicking Here.
Happy caching and See You There!!
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