GC15HYQ Student Park Potato Cave Adventure (Event Cache) in Tennessee, United States created by Super

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Super_Nate: One month since the event, means the listing goes to the cache heaven called archival! A special thanks once again for coming out and making this a smashing successful event. Looking forward to the next one.

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Hidden : Saturday, October 6, 2007

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Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

Student Park Potato Cave Adventure

What: A dirty, muddy, slimy, dark, and cold geocaching event inside of a cave
Where: Southern Adventist University Potato Cave
When: October 6, 2007 @ 2pm
Who: Anybody who does not suffer from claustrophobia, and doesn't mind tight squeezes or low clearances.

(Disclaimer: This is an accurate example of what those attending this event will look like after exiting the cave)

Come to the Student Park Cave for a Geocaching Meet n' Greet event. This event will start at 2pm SHARP from inside the dark hole. The event will consist of getting to know each other, signing the log sheet, swapping travel bugs, and maybe even getting a group picture if somebody is brave enough to bring a camera. Their will be no food or trash at the event. What is taken in must come out. The event will conclude at 2:30pm and everybody is then welcome to explore the cave as long as you wish as long as you are out by 5pm.

Here are the directions to the event: First you have to enter the cave....then you follow the main passage without making any turns. As soon as the cave enterence disappears from view, then look around and you should see our group real close to side of the passage. If in doubt, look for a guy holding a green clipboard...and that would be me.

the General Stuff
The sport of geocaching has taken us to many unique places. It all starts out when starting an account on the website, and then finding a few caches near home to get feet in the water for how the game is played. Before to long the names that are seen in the log books, online find logs, and cache owner names all start to get repetitive. The thought crosses minds how cool it would be to meet these people that hide caches to find, and who finds caches that others hide. So that is where the geocaching event comes into play.

A geocaching event is described to be an activity where fellow cachers can gather at a determined location and put faces with the familiar names that are seen on the internet on a daily basis. The typical event will take place at a local restraunt, a picnic pavillion at a park, or another like atmosphere in which any human who is alive can attend.

With this event the opposite is true. Their will be a majority who will not be able to attend this event because quite frankly.....the event is happening in a cave! If you happen by and see me standing outside the cave, you won't get credit for attending because that is not the event venue. The event venue is INSIDE the cave. What more needs to be said? A basic summary in a sentence, this cave does not contain sidewalks....you will indeed be crawling on your belly, going places that your head barely fits, and swimming in mud up to your knees.

I will be entering the cave at 1:30pm...if anybody wishes to go in with me to go back to the event site, then please be there as close to 1:30 as possible. If you are later than that, then you will have to find the group inside the cave.

the Cave Stuff
This cave is owned by Southern Adventist University and is managed by the School of Education and Psychology. It has a gate, but the cave is not closed. The day of this event is one of the open access days in which the cave is open to the general public. On the first Saturday of every month from 1:30pm-5pm, the Outdoor Education department opens the cave for anybody to enter. It is completely free, you must sign release and liability waiver before entering as well as sign a sheet when you go inside and come back out...That way, they don't lock the cave back up with somebody still inside. For more on the history of this cave, see the "Student Park Cave" Earthcache (GC1554H)

the Nitty Gritty Stuff
The following things will be highly suggested to think about before coming to this event:

The difficulty and terrain rating is ACCURATE for this event.
You will want to wear clothes that you don't mind getting very dirty in. This includes tennis shoes, long pants, and a t-shirt. The tempurature inside the cave is always the same no matter what the weather is outside. That temperature is on the chilly side so plan accordingly.
I highly recommend not taking anything inside the cave with you for fear that you would lose it during a mud crawl. This includes GPSrs, travel bugs, keys, etc. This stuff can either be left in your car, or with the Outdoor Education leader at the enterance.
VERY IMPORTANT Southern provides helments and lamps at the enterance on a FIRST COME FIRST SERVED basis. If they are all taken when you get there, then you will have to wait until others come available. You are welcome to bring your own helment and head-lamp so that you are guaranteed access to the cave. HELMENTS ARE REQUIRED FOR ENTERANCE!

Thanks to everybody who came out to the Potato Cave today! We had a good turnout and everyone seemed to have a fantastic time. To see pictures from the event then scroll down to ThePesters4 log ....Thanks for bringing your camera guys!

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