6th Annual Pine Mountain Geo-Star Party Campout Event Cache
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6th Annual Pine Mountain Geo-Star Party Campout
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
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I have June 28th 2008 on the observatory calendar for the 6th Annual Geo-Star Party here at Pine Mountain Observatory. Wow, the 6th year for the event! The moon will be third quarter this year. This means that we will have a crescent moon to view late in the evening providing dark skies for deep sky viewing till well after midnight. If you can, come on Friday and make a long weekend of it. Email me if you are coming early, we need to put rigs and tents in the campground to secure it for folks showing up later. There are many interesting caches to do in a 20-mile radius of PMO! Other activities besides stargazing and geocaching are birdwatching, mt.bike riding, caving, rock hounding, and hiking. I have lived in the Central Oregon area for over 37 years so just ask and I can give you information about things to do and places to go in the area so feel free to email me with questions. Travel to many of the interesting areas around here are on back roads so bring spare tires, extra food, water and charged cell phones…be prepared!
Camping will be available at the Pine Mountain Campground. Camping is free and I will provide trash hauling and drinking water. The observatory tour program does ask for a 5 dollars per person for the evening stargazing show. The campground has 4 drive in RV sites (these sites are large and could be shared with 2 smaller RV’s) and a large group area with plenty of walk in tent camping areas. I also have some room for tent campers and RV’s around my place if we need an over flow area. I will have a wheelbarrow available to get tent camping supplies in to the walk in areas. The drive in sites can accommodate campers or motor homes up to 30 feet in length. If you are bringing a RV please let me know so I have an idea how much room to hold open. There are no power, water or sewer hookups and generator use is discouraged! Non street legal OHV’s are prohibited on the main road 2017. No motorized vehicles in the campground and observatory areas. Because people stay up stargazing into the wee hours of the morning the area around the campground and observatory is a designated quiet area.
Wireless Internet access is available in the observatory parking lot and on the benches in front of the 24” scope.
The Potluck-BBQ-Bonfire will be the main group campfire pit area starting around 6pm Saturday the 28th. This year I will be renting one of those big tow behind a vehicle BBQ’s so there will be plenty of room to cook your goodies. Viewing through the telescopes will begin when it gets dark. You can arrive anytime to set up camp and go caching! Food details: Bring something to BBQ and drink. Use your Geocaching name: A-H-Bring a Vegetable Dish and I-P bring a desert and R-Z Bring a Bread or Salad Item. Let’s do another drawing of geocache related things this year. If you have items for the drawing or *** other event ideas!!!*** send them to me at markpmo@uoregon.edu or to PMOGUY at www.oregongeocaching.org under event planning. See you in June! Cache On!
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