Saturday, June 6 ,
2009
Pocahontas State
Park
Powhatan Dining Hall
11:00am until
whenever
Parking
fee of $4 for day visitors on Saturday
- 3rd Annual Cache
Container Contest !
- 50/50 Raffle
!
- Silent Auction
!
- Turkey Shoot
!
- Geo-BINGO
!
- Door Prizes
!
- Games and Puzzles
!
- Kids’ Craft
!
- New
Caches, with FREE Waypoint Loading !
- Ammo
Can toss !
- Speed
Cache Packing !
-
Simsie's
T-shirt Surprise !
- and
lotsa other fun things !
Once again, the CVGA crew is
headed south of the river to celebrate geocaching within the
beautiful confines of Pocahontas State Park.
We will reserve shelters for
Saturday, June 6, 2009 to hold the sixth annual Richmond Rally
geocaching event. It's another chance to put a face to all those
names you see in the logs or on the forums and meet some new folks
as well! We've got the shelter until sunset and plan to kick things
off at around 11:00am.
Bring some geo-cash for the
raffle, silent auction, and various fun games you may want to
participate in! Who knows, you might just win a great prize PLUS
bragging rights!
PARKING
INFORMATION
The parking fee is $4 per car for day
visitors on Saturday. Parking is included (for 2 vehicles) with
camping fees. Parking fees are required anytime you park a car at
Pocahontas State Park - whether you go into the main park area or
not. There are a couple of drop boxes in the larger parking areas
or you can pick up a parking pass at the main entrance.
The State of Virginia has
various annual and lifetime passes that
frequent visitors may be interested in. Also, Friends of Pocahontas
State Park volunteers can earn a yearly parking pass with volunteer
hours.
CAMPING
INFORMATION
Camping is available, make
reservations thru the park's website on your own - tell them you
are geocaching, and they will try to group you with other
cachers.
WAYPOINT
LOADING
There will be several laptops to load
waypoints centered around the event into your GPS receivers! This
will save you a lot of time since there are going to be several new
caches activated just in time for this event, and this way you
won't have to input all the coordinates yourself. We'll have all
the gear needed to load Garmin and Magellan GPSr's.If you use
another brand of GPS receiver, you can
bring your interface cable and a
device driver disc and we'll do our best to help you. We'll
be loading the closest 200 caches (10 mile radius around the
Rally), give or take a few, so make sure there's room for these in
your GPS or plan on deleting your waypoints before we load your
unit.
SWIMMING
INFORMATION
Pocahontas State Park's Pool and
Aquatic Recreation Center is open from 10:00am to 7:00pm on both
Saturday and Sunday. Cachers who are camping enjoy one day of free
swimming for each night of overnight camping. The park has
generously offered all other cachers to use the pool for the group
rate of $4 per person. A great way to cool off after a hard day in
the woods.
MUSEUM
INFORMATION
Both the Civilian Conservation Corps
Museum and the Nature Center will be open on Saturday during the
event. Feel free to drop by and learn a little bit more about the
young men who lived here while they developed the Swift Creek
Recreation Area in the 1930s and the creatures who live here
today!