The First Official Meet and Greet
Potluck
Tired of having to run into geocachers at the
cache sites?
wish you could put a face to the name?
want to tell someone about your hunt for their cache?
Come join us in our first Red Deer Meet and Greet
potluck
Location: McKenzie Picnic
Shelter (See Coordinates)
Date: August 11th 2007
Time: Start 4 pm potluck at 5 pm
Food: Hot Dogs and Bottled water is
provided.
Please bring a food item for the
potluck, snack or refreshment item to share.
**with the current excellent turnout we are
expecting it may be helpful to bring a lawn chair or two along as
we are going to outgrow the shelter...
Free Draw for prizes.
(Special thanks to GPS Central for
supplying some door prizes)
Please NO Geopets
**Please bring your own wiener
sticks as they won't be enough to go around.
**
Area Description: The McKenzie
Trail Recreation Area picnic shelter is close to playgrounds and
walking trails, with open fire pits and firewood available
seasonally. Washrooms are open year round. Pets and alcohol are
prohibited in all shelters. Access to McKenzie
Trail Shelter is from 55 Street and travel north on 45 Avenue until
the road ends. See Map
Attached
Come and go as you like, you are encouraged to
bring trading items, stories from your hunts
or come and relax or play a few games.
Please log your visit as "will attend" on the
cache page if your able to attend, So we can have a good idea how
many people will be present.
TB ADVENTURE: Open to
anyone interested
How it works: bring an
unactivated Travel Bug DogTag to the event along
with your racing item, That is all that you need to do in order to
be in the race, all Travel bugs will be activated at the same time
and dropped off into the same cache at the same time. from here the
race is on to Canada's 1st Geocache (GCBBA). Each racer
can collect all sorts of points along the way. Next year at the
next Red Deer Geo Event the owner of the racer with the most
points will win the grand prize.
Want to race? here is what to do.
Buy a Hitchhiker (Travel Bug Dog Tag) bring it along with a Item
to attach the tag with , this will be your racer. that is all you
need to do.
| RULES: |
- Racers are not allowed to move
any other racing TB
- Racers are not allowed to
photograph other racing TB (for points)
- Photographs must show the TB in
the image
- Only 1 Racer per
person
- To complete the round trip TB
must be present at next years event.
- Under NO circumstance can a TB be mailed
or courier during the race.
- Penalty of 100 points for any
voilations
|
| POINTS: |
| Each Geocache the TB visits |
10 Points |
| Each Unique Geocacher that logs the TB |
10 Points |
| Each Picture posted with the TB |
20 Points |
| Each Province The Racing TB visits |
20 Points |
| Each time the TB is Discovered |
10 Points |
| Each Time the Racing TB visits a Webcam Cache (TB must be
visible in webcam photo) |
50 Points |
| Every Mile the TB Travels |
1 Point |
| 1st Racing TB to GCBBA |
500 Points |
| 2nd Racing TB to GCBBA |
250 Points |
| 3rd Racing TB to GCBBA |
100 Points |
| 4th Racing TB to GCBBA |
50 Points |
| Complete Trip to GCBBA and back to Next Years Event |
1000 Points |
Status and a Leader borad will be visbile all
year at www.rdgeo.com