The Lewis and Clark Festival Geocaching
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All
Geocachers have been invited to a potluck event at Giant
Springs State Park. The event will be at the park above
the springs. We also have a great opportunity to
set up and staff a Geocaching table at the lower park in
conjunction with the 18th Annual Lewis & Clark Festival.
Fish, Wildlife and Parks would like our assistance in helping
to introduce our sport to others during this event. This is a
great chance for us to get together for a visit, share
geocaching stories, and have a potluck lunch. There will
be drawings (we already have some items donated, a 50/50, and
a chance to tell others about Geocaching. What a great day
this can and will be as long as you are there. And what an
awesome opportunity to make this an annual
event! |
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The
8th Annual Lewis & Clark
Festival Geocaching Tables |
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There will be a few new caches going active for
this event for veteran cachers. A special non-active cache
will be available to teach the people interested in learning
about Geocaching. We can assist people who are interested in
our sport how to find this special cache. The park service is
providing us a lean-to, tables, and loaner GPS receivers for
the event. The event is scheduled to last from 10:00AM to
5:00PM, and yes we are looking for people to staff the
tables. At this time, we plan on having several
modern cache containers which can be compared to
the Lewis and Clark cache containers. We will have Geocaching
brochures and flip charts of Geocaching.com, showing how
to find and log a cache. |
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Chicken... Chicken...
Chicken... |
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We will have Chicken again this year, as the main
dish, you just need you to sign-up as soon as possible so
we have a good idea of how much to order. We are getting
excited, hope you are. |
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Food List...
Thanks to all of you who are bringing
food. |
Chips
Fruit Salad
Homemade
Coleslaw |
What do you want to
bring? |
Potato salad
Baked beans
Drinks |
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Activities... All activities are voluntary of
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Enter the Lewis &
Clark Travel Bug Contest
Bring a Lewis & Clark related Travel Bug to be
entered
into the contest at the
Geocaching tables in the lower park.
(All Trade TB's go to the
Event at the upper park.)
Travel Bugs must have an
"activated" tag
attached.
Participants are encouraged to
"Create some long lasting tie
to the
Lewis & Clark Festival"
First and Second prizes will be awarded for the
best
"
Lewis & Clark Festival" related Travel
Bug.
Judging will be done by Lewis &
Clark Festival personnel.
Travel Bugs will begin their journeys following the
event.
Looks
like we have 5 TB's entered so far,
Hope to
see more... |
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We will have a 50/50 for anyone wanting to
try their luck, all proceeds will go to the Lewis and Clark
Interpretive Center.
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Looking for donations for other
drawings, Big R has given again this year. If you have any ideas
drop me a email. Again all proceeds will go to the Lewis and Clark
Interpretive Center. |
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We have received some nice donations
from the Portage Cache Store located at the Interpretive
Center, all related to Lewis and Clark. Pretty cool... We are
going to use them in the drawings and as
prizes. |
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We
are looking for geocachers to work the tables at the
festival. It would be nice if no one had to work it more then
a few hours. At this time we plan on having several
caches out for display, brochures to hand out, and we
hope to have some GPS's set up and ready for people to try
their first cache. In general we will just be answering
questions and recruiting new cachers, sounds like fun to me.
I know that the Big Sky Explorers are planning on working it,
Calkan and his wife, my wife and I plan on taking a turn. So
who else wants to join in on the fun? We will also have the
Travel Bug contest set up at these tables... I know of at
least four entries, If you plan on entering let us
know... |
Big Sky Explorers
Calkan and Wife
RAM Explorers |
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If you have a good idea just email
us... at CMGA |
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Registration & Prizes
Register when arriving to
receive one free ticket per team for door prizes.
Drawing for door prizes
will be during the event and the team must be present to
win.
50 – 50 tickets will also
be available at the registration desk for $1 each or 6 tickets for
$5.
Proceeds to go for
expenses and
all excess will go to the Interpretive
Center and the Rivers Edge
Trail.
Tickets for some nice
donated gifts will also be available for $1 each or 6 tickets for
$5.
Some of the donations are
binoculars, knives, etc.
Again the proceeds will
help with the expenses and excess will go to the
Interpretive Center and the Rivers Edge
Trail. |
Tentative Schedule
for the Giant Springs Table....
A few more people would not
hurt...
If this won't work for you
let Calkan know... Email
Same contact if you want to
volunteer...
Calkan
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10am-11am |
11am-12 |
12pm-1pm |
1pm-2pm |
2pm-3pm |
3pm-4pm |
4pm-5pm |
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Big Sky Explorers |
Ram Explorers |
Flakita |
Jennifer and Dean |
Martin 5 |
Kathi (k&g seekers) |
KK7SW |
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Leonata |
Yumitori |
Gordon (k&gseekers) |
Davis Clan |
Mt Scarecrow |
Lew M & Sandy M |
Ask the Tracker |
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Calkan |
Peggy |
TommyGuns |
Paddleit |
Shell 618 |
Sgt Red Jeep |
Relish |
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