6th Annual AGA Birthday Bash! COORD CHANGE Event Cache
6th Annual AGA Birthday Bash! COORD CHANGE
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Moved to White Oak Pavilion N33° 20.998 W086° 43.649
Call TheAlabamaRambler at 205-914-6814 if you need anything.
AGA Birthday Meet & Greet BBQ, Hike to beautiful Kings Chair
Cache, Milestone Awards, Poker Run, Geocaching Stories and More! A
full day of fun activities!
In the beginning there was a geocache, and it was good. GC126.
Joefrog said "Let us intermingle and break bread one with the
other" and a Meet & Greet event was created for the
intermingling of geocachers. GCGW5Q. That first event was held on
October 17 in the year 2003, whereat Pudman decreed to the
Assembled Twenty "Let us associate" and the Alabama Geocachers
Association was born. Ultimately DixieCachers.com was to be our
home.
Each year we gather at about that time at Oak Mountain State Park
to intermingle, eat and celebrate our Association, welcome the
year's newcomers, visit with neighbors, get to know one another and
swap incredible tales from the geocaching trails.
What a wonderful group of people we continue to attract! What
great caches have been hidden and found! With 756 members to date
we indeed have a lot to celebrate!
Join us for the 6th Annual AGA Birthday Bash on Saturday, November
8th from Noon to 5:00 PM.
COST: Free and Open to anyone. There will be a donations jar to
offset costs ($197.21 so far!) for food and awards.
I will be selling geocoins from my collection to cover costs as
well, so bring money!
Stephanie2427 is hosting an AGA Breakfast Club event that morning,
GC1GQMW, at 7 AM, to tackle the fabled cache atop Oak Mountain
called The King's Chair GCKRVB. So if you're up for it, do that
first then come and chill at the Birthday Bash pavilion!
That should work up your appetite and get you ready for a great
lunch!
I will BBQ pork Boston Butt roasts with my 'secret' BBQ sauce and
fry some green tomatoes; y'all bring your favorite side dishes,
deserts (lots of deserts!), plates, utensils, buns, ice, drinks and
an appetite! Oh yeah... we need a Birthday Cake. I like cake!
If you don't like BBQ pork bring whatever you want to grill.
Please post what you will bring in your Will Attend note.
Get together and start BBQing at Noon. Eat at 2 pm.
Socializing and geocaching games and contests follow lunch!
Along with all of the great caches hidden in this wonderful park
there will be 12 temporary event caches to find. You won't be able
to log them but you might find something interesting in them!
Milestone Recognition Award Ammo Cans!
OHail is making and at 3:30pm will present Milestone Recognition
Award Ammo Cans to Pillman, January14, Searching4Fun, 4Ps, xptwo,
Blue Lew and Cookie2.
Is there anyone else you know of that will be there who deserves a
milestone ammo can? Please let OHail know well in advance! She has
some child-friendly swag, notebooks and a pen in each can already.
If anyone has anything you want to add to the caches you are
encouraged to do so.
Thank you OHail for doing this! She did not ask, but I will place
a seperate donations jar on a table to help with her costs... these
seven caches are expensive to create and stock and I will
appreciate anyone who donates some money to help with her
costs!
Poker Run!
Seven Poker Run event (unlisted temporary) caches will be hidden
between the North Traihead where the moring hike ends and the event
site. All will be 1.5/1.5-rated close to the road if you choose to
drive the route and close to the bike trail if you choose to bike
or hike. If hiking is your thing then you will enjoy the walk, if
you are gimped-up and old like me (or if you went on the arduous
King's Chair hike!) you will enjoy the drive!
Please use sensible safe parking. There is safe road-shoulder
parking close to each cache... which does not mean that's the
closest that you can get to the cache!
Poker Run #1 N33° 21.142 W086° 43.170
Poker Run #2 N33° 21.274 W086° 43.251
Poker Run #3 N33° 21.266 W086° 43.424
Poker Run #4 N33° 21.191 W086° 43.550
Poker Run #5 N33° 21.128 W086° 43.636
Poker Run #6 N33° 20.884 W086° 43.815
Poker Run #7 N33° 21.034 W086° 43.581
Three Poker Run caches are close to the event site so if you are
pressed for time you can at least find these three... you never
know, you could get lucky and find three Aces!
Several folks have said that they just cannot get there until late
and can't do the Poker Run at all. Here's a deal for you! Grab Bags
with seven cards in them will be available at the event site just
before the card opening in exchange for one trackable geocoin! All
geocoins will be put into the Prise Boxes for folks to win!
You can hunt the seven Poker Run Caches anytime up to the Poker Run
Check-In at 2:30 Saturday... but don't be late! This timing should
give those going on Stephanie's Kings Chair Hike plenty of time to
get back to the Birthday event and do the Poker Run.
Each cache contains numbered cards in sealed numbered envelopes.
Take ONE from each cache. DO NOT open them! At 2:30 Saturday at the
Birthday event volunteers will check in all participants... each
should have 3 to 7 unopened undamaged envelopes numbered 1-7 with
no duplicates. I am using 3 envelopes as the minimum because with
210 cards in play everyone is likely to have one pair, so I am
making 3 cards (3-of-a-kind) the minimum possible hand, then 2 pair
and on up in normal poker ranking order.
PLEASE state "I will play in the Poker Run" in your Will Attend
log if you want to play in the Poker Run so I can know how many
prises to purchase.
At this time I am estimating 30 participants so each cache will
have 30 envelopes and I will have the appropriate number of prises.
I will adjust that number as we get closer to the event and I see
how many state that they want to play.
Poker Hand Ranking and Prise Awards: (Yes, I know how to spell
prise, but the key that I need to spell it correctly quit working
on my keyboard, and I figured prise was better than prie!)
Royal Flush - The 1st and highest-ranking hand for this event.
Draw from Prise Box 1, 2 or 3 AND win the Grand Prise! If there is
more than 1 Royal Flush all winners may draw from Prise Box 1, 2 or
3 and the ultimate Grand Prise winner will be determined by
high-card draw.
Makeup: A straight from a ten to an ace and all five cards of the
same suit. In poker the suit does not matter... a Royal Flush in
Hearts is equal to a Royal Flush in Spades, and pots are usually
split between equally strong hands. In this case the high-card draw
will determine the ultimate winner.
Straight Flush - The 2nd-ranking hand for this event. Draw from
Prise Box 1, 2 or 3 AND win the Booby Prise. If there is more than
1 Straight Flush all winners may draw from Prise Box 1, 2 or 3 and
the ultimate Booby Prise winner will be determined by high-card
draw.
Makeup: Any straight with all five cards of the same suit.
Four of a Kind - The 3rd-ranking hand for this event. Draw from
Prise Box 1 or 2.
Makeup: Any four cards of the same rank. If two players share the
same Four of a Kind, the fifth card will decide who wins the pot,
the bigger card the better.
Full House - The 4th-ranking hand for this event. Draw from Prise
Box 1 or 2
Makeup: Any three cards of the same rank together with any two
cards of the same rank. "Aces full of Kings" (3 Aces 2 Kings) is a
bigger full house than "Kings full of Aces (3 Kings 2 Aces) ."
Flush - The 5th-ranking hand for this event. Draw from Prise Box 1
or 2.
Makeup: Any five cards of the same suit which are not consecutive.
The highest card of the five makes out the rank of the flush.
Ace-high flush is the highest.
Straight - The 6th-ranking hand for this event. Draw from Prise
Box 1.
Makeup: Any five consecutive cards of different suits. The ace
counts as either a high or a low card. A Five-high straight is the
lowest possible straight.
Three of a Kind - The 7th-ranking hand for this event. Draw from
Prise Box 1.
Makeup: Any three cards of the same rank. Three of a kind in Aces
with a King and a Queen as side cards is the best possible three of
a kind.
Two Pair - The 8th and lowest-ranking winning hand for this event.
Draw from Prise Box 1.
Makeup: Any two cards of the same rank together with another two
cards of the same rank. The best possible two-pair is Aces and
Kings. The highest pair of the two make out the rank of the
two-pair.
One Pair - For this event you win a nice day in the park finding
geocaches, thanks for playing!
Makeup: Any two cards of the same rank. Two Aces is the best
possible one-pair hand.
High Card - For this event you win a nice day in the park finding
geocaches, thanks for playing!
Makeup: Any hand that does not make up any of the above mentioned
hands. An Ace is the best possible High-card hand.
Now let's make it interesting! Jokers Wild! A Joker can replace
any ONE card to make any hand. Jokers will be placed in 5 other
event caches, NOT in the Poker Run caches, their locations to be
announced at the start of the event.
Just for clarity, a game like this is mostly based on personal
honor. With this group honor has never been in question (thank
God!) and it's certainly worth mentioning how much I love and trust
the people of the AGA. Still, as Reagan said, Trust but Verify! The
cards will be in opaque envelopes that you cannot see through. At
the 2:30 Saturday check-in you should have 3 to 7 sealed undamaged
envelopes numbered 1-7 with no duplicates... one from each of the
Poker Run caches that you found.
You must check in with and show your envelopes to the Poker Run
Check-In volunteers before the card game. DO NOT OPEN THE ENVELOPES
UNTIL INSTRUCTED TO DO SO!
Once I tell you to open your envelopes you will have 5 minutes to
decide how to make your best hand... you may certainly consult
among yourselves as to how to make the best hand of the cards you
have but there is NO card-swapping allowed!
Tell your story! Write a story that tells something about
geocaching... anything will do, be it about why you like the game,
an adventure you have had, this or another event that you attended,
and email it to TheAlabamaRambler@gmail.com for publication in The
Online Geocacher. http://onlinegeocacher.com
This is always a fun event. This year we should have a number of
newcomers to the game from our previous week's event at Moss Rock
Preserve, GC1GZFY.
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