In 2005 we ventured to Dorey
Park for
Richmond Rally II
Last year at Pocahontas we broke
attendance records for
Richmond Rally III
In 2007, you wanted it, you asked for
it. AND NOW? You’ve got it!
The CVGA is back for another Richmond Rally.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Pocahontas State
Park, Shelter #5
10:00am until whenever
Parking fee of $4 for day visitors on
Saturday
Once again, the CVGA crew is headed south of the river to celebrate
geocaching within the beautiful confines of Pocahontas State Park.
We've reserved Shelters #5 and #6 for Saturday, June 9, 2007 to
hold the fourth annual Richmond Rally geocaching event. It's
another chance to put a face to all those names you see in the logs
or on the forums and meet some new folks as well! We've got the
shelter until sunset and plan to kick things off at around
10:00am.
Check back for a more detailed schedule to come out in the
coming weeks but you can count on a big group lunch, travel bug and
geocoin trading, a few geocaching classes throughout the day, kids
crafts, some doorprizes, a cache container contest and a
performance by the Waypoints (much to their surprise)!
PARKING INFORMATION
The
parking fee is $4 per car for day visitors on Saturday. Parking is
included (for 2 vehicles) with camping fees. Parking fees are
required anytime you park a car at Pocahontas State Park - whether
you go into the main park area or not. There are a couple of drop
boxes in the larger parking areas or you can pick up a parking pass
at the main entrance.
The State of Virginia has
various
annual and lifetime passes that frequent visitors may be
interested in. Also, Friends of Pocahontas State Park volunteers
can earn a yearly parking pass with volunteer hours.
CAMPING
INFORMATION
We have a number of camping spaces
reserved for Geocachers attending the event. When making
reservations please call the central reservations number at
1-800-933-PARK and make reservations as normal. The central
office relies on the park to assign specific spots and Pocahontas
is holding a loop open for us in which they will place reservations
marked as being associated with the event. After you have
registered, please send
Code_Zero a note indicating the REAL name you made the
reservation under, how many in your party, and how many camping
spaces you reserved, and for which days. Friday morning, June
8th, we will mark off the required number of campsites in the loop
provided by the Park. Reservations should be made No later
than June 5th, any made afterwards cannot be guaranteed a spot in
the loop area.
WAYPOINT
LOADING
Inertial and stepol will be there with their laptops to
load waypoints centered around the event into your GPS
receivers! This will save you a lot of time since there are
going to be several new caches activated just in time for this
event, and this way you won't have to input all the coordinates
yourself. Inertial will be loading them for Garmin users and
stepol will be loading them for Magellan users.
If you use another brand of GPS receiver, you can
bring your interface cable
and a device driver disc and we'll do our best to help
you. If you'd prefer, you can contact them before Friday and
let them know what model you have and they can try to
download the drivers beforehand.
We'll be loading the closest 200 caches (10 mile radius around the
Rally), give or take a few, so make sure there's room for these in
your GPS or plan on deleting your waypoints before we load your
unit.
SWIMMING
INFORMATION
Pocahontas State Park's Pool and
Aquatic Recreation Center is open from 10:00am to 7:00pm on both
Saturday and Sunday. Cachers who are camping enjoy one day of free
swimming for each night of overnight camping. The park has
generously offered all other cachers to use the pool for the group
rate of $4 per person. A great way to cool off after a hard day in
the woods.
MUSEUM
INFORMATION
Both the Civilian Conservation
Corps Museum and the Nature Center will be open on Saturday during
the event. Feel free to drop by and learn a little bit more about
the young men who lived here while they developed the Swift Creek
Recreation Area in the 1930s and the creatures who live here
today!
POCAHONTAS
PREMIERES
After wandering
around in the woods, what better way is there to unwind then to
bring the whole family to chill on the hill at the Heritage
Amphitheater while listening to feisty, saucy and soulful blues
music. SAFFIRE - The Uppity Blues Women as well as Johnnie and the
Lowdowns will be pounding out great roadhouse rhythms for you to
enjoy. The concert runs from 6pm to 9pm and tickets are $10 per
person the day of the show or $7 in advance, which includes
parking. So if you were going to pay $4 for parking anyway, pay $3
more and get a ticket to the show! Kids 12 and under are free. Food
and beverages will be available. Call
1-800-933-PARK to get tickets now.
[Click
here] to see NPR's story on the Uppity Blues Women
[Click here]
to read a Richmond Roots Revival review of Johnnie and the
Lowdowns
TRAVEL BUG
RACE
The
Central Virginia Geocaching Association is going to have a Travel
Bug Race! You've all run across TBs whose printouts say they
are in one kind of race or another, so it's high time we hold our
own.
How do you participate? That's easy! Simply bring a newly-activated
(NO MILES YET) Travel Bug to the Rally and drop it on one of the TB
tables. There will also be a race sign-up sheet at the Rally to
help us track all the bugs in the race.
We'll update our CVGA Wiki on
Wetpaint page to show the
stats, hopefully on a weekly basis.
Now, the rules:
1. Anyone may participate
2. You may enter multiple Travel Bugs into the
race
3. Attending the Rally is NOT required to join the
race and you may start at any time after June 9, 2007
4. If you are not attending the Rally and want to
participate, drop your brand-new TB into any cache AFTER the race
begins. Send Inertial a message to let him know
you've joined in the fun
5. You may NOT move your own Travel Bug; drop it and
that's all the involvement you should have
6. Optional: Join the CVGA so you can talk some smack!
7. The race ends when the New Year's Eve ball drops in
New York (that's midnight on December 30, 2007) and the winner is
the TB that travels the farthest by that time.
8. Prizes will be provided to the 3 TBs with the most
mileage.
Good luck and happy trails!
CREATIVE CACHE CONTAINER
CONTEST
There will
be 3 categories: large—the size of ammo cans & bigger,
small—size of nanos, bison tubes, etc., and medium—everything in
between. No need to pre-enter. No limit on number of
entries. Exact size limits to be determined the day of the
picnic, trying to keep the categories approximately even in number
of entries.
Contest begins 15 minutes after the picnic commences. Late
entries accepted, but you might miss some voters. All
attendees will get to vote once in each category and also for best
of show.
There will be prizes. If you wish to donate your container as a
door prize or as part of the silent auction, it will be so
marked.
Caches may be an item totally constructed by the entrant, a
container that is camouflaged by the entrant, or a purchased or
found item that has been somehow transformed into a cache.
Categories are small, medium, and large for new containers and
one class of retired containers.
As an added incentive—anyone who enters AND can decode the message
below gets a special prize. Just bring the decoded
message along with your entry and be rewarded immediately.
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50-50
RAFFLE
The CVGA will be hosting a 50-50 Raffle to raise money for CVGA
events and to help pay for the Rally. So don't forget to bring
money.
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