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Hidden : Saturday, August 20, 2016
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Welcome to C-MASS Geofest 2016. Held Aug 20th from 12-5 PM at Hamilton Rod and Gun Club 24 Hamilton Rd, Sturbridge, MA. This is a all ages event to learn about and see geocaching in Central Massachusetts.

Our second annual event is centered in Sturbridge Massachusetts, but Central Massachusetts is home of bustling streets, quaint towns, serene outdoors, invigorating trails and innovative industry parks. The region is a wonderful place to visit with 19 state forests, 3 state parks, a National Wildlife refuge and a state wildlife management area there are plenty of trails, ponds, rivers, and places to explore outside. Sturbridge alone is currently home to 156 geocaches with nearly 500 including the surrounding towns. There will much to see and do at the event. Plus there are several events leading up to C-MASS Geofest 2016. You are more than welcome to come for the day, the weekend, or the whole week. Absolutely NO DOGS (Except for service dogs), NO OUTSIDE DRINKS (Including water or any glass), NO FISHING. The venue strongly encourages you to use cash as their credit card machine does not seem to work well.

To learn more go the website www.C-MASSGeofest.org

Like our facebook page for the latest updates. https://www.facebook.com/CMassGeofest

Food and Drinks will be available for purchase.

Workshops and Activities

Noon-5 p.m. Registration

Noon-4 p.m. Kids Activities

Noon-4 p.m. Ammo Can Toss

12:30 p.m. Geocaching 101+ with 4Swans

1:30 p.m. Group Photo

2 p.m. Local History with Thomas Chamberland

2:45 p.m. Offsite Guided Opacum Woods Walk. Parking at N 42° 07.490 W 072° 04.662

3 p.m Reviewer Q&A with NHPride

4 p.m. Raffles/50-50

Tampa Bay Geocaching Store and GxProxy will be vending at this year's events.

In addition to the Main event, satellite events will run Aug 17-21 and will include activities such as bowling, mini golf, barbecue, flash mob, star gazing, ice cream social, night caching, CITO, kayak caching and a brewery social. You can expect them to be published in May. In 2015 we had 202 attendees, can we double that this year?? Log your will attend today with the number of people in your group!

The last day to pre-register and ensure your swag is August 5th

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