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Roughneck Rendezvous Off-Road Geocaching Adventure Event Cache

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Ocotillo_Wells: Thank you for attending the first annual Roughneck Rendezvous! See ya next year!

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Hidden : Saturday, 30 January 2010
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Terrain:
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Our First Annual Roughneck Rendezvous:
An Off-Road Geocaching Adventure!

Ocotillo Wells SVRA proudly announces its First Annual Roughneck Rendezvous. We would like to officially invite you to mark your calendars for our upcoming geocaching, adventure-filled weekend. This event is the first of its kind for California State Parks and will be held from January 29–January 31, 2010.

The festivities will kick off on Friday with pre-registration from noon to 4 pm at our event headquarters on Main Street. There, participants will be able to register a day early and avoid any long lines on Saturday morning. From 6-9 pm we invite you to join us for an evening program at the new campfire center. The program will include a brief talk from a Tread Lightly! representative, a short GPSr 101 course, and a wonderful star program focusing on how stars were used for navigation before we had GPS technology!

On Saturday morning between 7-9 am, we will line up our vehicles, register (if you didn’t pre-register), download our waypoints, and begin our grand geocache scavenger hunt! At 9 am you will be released into the park armed with your coordinates and your GPSr.

Your goal will be to find as many of the 100 strategically placed geocaches hidden within our park. In each cache you will find a special item that will be used to document your visit to the cache. You will also discover an interpretive message about the natural or cultural history of our park, or about responsible and sustainable geocaching and riding. We will not be able to make all 100 sites official caches on geocaching.com because we will be conducting this event for many years to come, and we would reach cache saturation in a very short amount of time. However, we will make a few of the caches permanent. And, don’t forget, you can always visit some of our pre-existing caches!

If you are the “First to Find” on a cache, you will have the opportunity to try and locate one of our bonus caches! These caches are tougher to get to, and even tougher to find once you reach their location. If you are successful, you will be richly rewarded with a special prize!

The scavenger hunt ends at 5 pm. Don’t forget to turn in your event booklet with your final cache count and receive your raffle tickets. For each “First to Find,” you will receive five (5) free raffle tickets; for each regular cache, you will receive one (1) raffle ticket; and, if you found your one (1) bonus cache, you can collect ten (10) free raffle tickets! There will be a 2-hour break from 5-7 pm which will give you the opportunity to grab dinner at one of our vendors booths (BBQ and Hot Dogs!) before the night’s events begin.

Saturday night is jam-packed with excitement. The festivities begin at 7 pm with a few words from park personnel, industry leaders, and a Tread Lightly! representative. The raffle will be held immediately after. All proceeds from the raffle will go towards the continuing educational efforts of the park, and to help fund special events.

After the raffle, we will announce the winners of the “First to Find” and the “Most Caches Found” competitions. The grand prizes for the competitions have not been donated at this time, but we assure you they will be fantastic! After the winners have been announced, we have one more surprise in store for you—an outdoor movie in the desert! The film has not been selected at this time, but we guarantee it will highlight great off-roading adventures.

Bright and early Sunday morning, we invite you to join us for our Roughneck Rendezvous “Cache In Trash Out” (CITO) event. This is a great way to explore our park, go caching, and help keep the park clean and safe at the same time. The CITO will run from 8 am-1 pm and will be celebrated with a BBQ lunch donated by BURRTEC Waste Industries Inc! Helping our park and a free lunch—sounds like a good deal to me!

P.S. Keep your eyes peeled for our Event Geocoin!

Update! 

This one has been a long time in coming!  So there will be quite a few updates! 

  1. Our raffle has taken off!  We have prizes from many different off-road companies and we are getting more in all the time.  As we get the prizes in, we will begin posting them onto this page so you can start dreaming about what you might win!
 
  1. A complete itinerary and event rules will be posted on this page 1 week prior to the event so you will be able to familiarize yourself with them prior to coming down!
 
  1. You will have the opportunity to check in with event staff and purchase water and snacks at several locations throughout the park during the event.  These comfort caches will also be event caches and will add to your total cache count at the end of the day!
 
  1. We would like to remind everyone that a 4wd, quad or dirt bike is highly recommended for this event.  If you do not own transportation of this nature and would still like to participate, we would suggest posting a note below and seeing if anyone has room in their vehicle for you.
 
  1. Registration is free!  The entire event is free!  There are no entrance fees or camping fees in the park!  We are offering this event as a great way for the geocaching community to come out and play, while learning about responsible and sustainable geocaching and off-roading, while experiencing the wonders of the desert. 
 
  1. Registration is dependent on having a GPSr.  That means, if you have 4 people in the car and 3 of them have a GPSr then 3 of them can register!  This will let you have some friendly competition between yourselves, who will be FTF??
 
  1. We have our Geocoin!  This is definitely going to be a highly collectable addition to your collection.  The 2” trackable round coin has a gold or silver finish, with the front bearing the words, Roughneck Rendezvous 4X4 Geocaching Adventure, surrounding the magnificent and original logo art from this year’s event.  The reverse bears the words, Ocotillo Wells SVRA Trackable at Geocaching.com with the tracking numbers, surrounding the CA State Parks Logo with the OHV Rocker.  This is the first time CA State Parks OHV Division has allowed their logo to be used on any geocoin!  Added to that, all proceeds will help further the educational programs and special events at Ocotillo Wells SVRA.  Please follow the link below to the Friends of Ocotillo Wells website to preorder your coin, or you can buy one at the event.  If you preorder and choose for the coin to be shipped, it will be shipped right after the event, or you can pick your coin up at the event.  We must warn you, supplies are extremely limited so act fast!
 
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Another Update! 

This one is lengthy as well, but please bear with us! 

1.  This event has from the beginning been about providing a high quality recreational opportunity in a fun and safe arena, while learning about responsible geocaching and off-roading in Ocotillo Wells.  To facilitate this we have gone to a tiered reward system based on the number of caches that you find.

Tier #1 1-5 caches found= 5 Raffle tickets

      Tier #2 6-15 Caches Found= 10 Raffle tickets

          Tier #3 16-25 Caches Found= 15 Raffle Tickets

          Tier #4 26-40 Caches Found= 20 Raffle Tickets

        Tier #5 41+ Caches Found= 30 Raffle Tickets

     We will also have 10 “Golden Caches” placed randomly throughout the park.  You will know that you have found a golden cache when you open it and find the inside painted a metallic gold.  Log the cache in your cache booklet like you would any other and leave the cache there!  Then make a tally mark for each one you find on the front of your booklet and we will give you the tickets when you turn your booklet in.

     

     Also, in an effort to increase safety for our visitors we are going to allow participants the opportunity to start the scavenger hunt as soon as you have registered and received your waypoints.  

2.   We have received quite a bit of rain in the last week.  By the weekend of the event, it should have dried up a little, but expect some mud in the washes.  Just a reminder, most areas require an off-road vehicle/rhino with moderate to high clearance, an ATV, or dirt bike to access them.  

3.   If you do not own an off road vehicle, you are still in luck!  We have a great group of volunteers that are going to be running an orienteering course/walking scavenger hunt that anyone, with or without an off-road vehicle can participate in.   

4.  We are also setting caches in an area that is accessible only by walking.  There are not as many caches in this small area, but it will still be a fun way to spend several hours if you do not own an off-road vehicle. 

5.  We are asking people to bring their GPSr data transfer cables. While we have a few generic ones, we cannot guarantee we will have one that fits your GPSr!  For transferring data that morning, we will be using GSAK, Easy GPS, and for any DeLormes we will have a computer with TOPO 7.0. 

6.   We are also recommending that if you have a personal laptop to download coordinates from, bring it!  We will have CDs available on Saturday morning loaded with the waypoint files that you will be able to borrow.  This way you can use your favorite program to transfer your coordinates, and it will be both faster for you.

Thank you for your enthusiasm and dedication to this brand new event.  Please read the following event rules and guidelines.  We will see you out there! 

Registration

• Registration is dependent on having a GPSr unit.  One (1) unit per person will get you one (1) registration packet per person to use out in the field to log your caches.

• Once you have registered, or if you have pre-registered on Friday afternoon, then you can proceed with your event packet to the waypoint download station, where you will be able to download waypoints directly into your GPSr, or receive a CD with the waypoint file to download directly from your own laptop.

• Once you have registered and downloaded your waypoints, you are allowed to go into the park and start hunting caches. 

Scavenger Hunt

• After you have left the event area, remember that the speed limit is 15 mph within 50 feet of people or campsites.

• Even when not near people and/or campsites always maintain a safe speed in order to insure yours and others safety.

• Once you have found a cache there are several things you must do to claim that cache.

1. Open cache box and look on the inside cover of the lid, there will be a sticker with the cache name.  Open your Cache Authentication Booklet, and find the corresponding cache that will be listed within.

2. Inside the cache, you will find a stamp and an ink pad.  Ink the stamp, and stamp the box to the right of the cache name and coordinates in your cache booklet.  Make sure that the stamp is legible as it will be compared to a master copy when it is turned in.

3. Take an interpretive trading card out of the cache, and write the answer to the question found in your Cache Authentication Booklet in the stamp box.  One card per group please.

4. Replace the cache in the same location that you found it.

5. Re-hide the cache as well or better than you found it to make it an interesting find for the next cachers.

6. And as always, watch out for muggles!  If caught, please take some time to explain geocaching and the event that is going on and direct them to the headquarters on Main Street if they have any more questions! 

•    Remember, this event is not a race!  We have a tiered reward system, so you can choose how many caches you would like to pursue throughout the day.  The more caches you get, the more raffle tickets you receive, but there are golden caches hidden out there as well.  If you find a few you can easily increase the number of raffle tickets you receive.  Strategy and NOT speed will earn you the most rewards!

Tier #1= 1-5 caches found= 5 Raffle Tickets        

Tier #2= 6-15 Caches Found= 10 Raffle Tickets

Tier #3= 16-25 Caches Found= 15 Raffle Tickets 

Tier #4= 26-40 Caches Found= 20 Raffle Tickets

Tier #5= 41+ Caches Found= 30 Raffle Tickets  

Golden Cache= 5 Raffle Tickets For Each One Logged 

     

• When you find a Golden Cache, you will know because the inside of the cache is painted in metallic gold.  Please log this cache like any other normal cache you find during the event and leave it for the next person to find.  You do not have to take the physical cache with you to receive your raffle tickets.  The only thing we ask you to do is tally how many you find on the front of your booklet.  Good Luck!

  • When you have finished caching, please return to the event area to turn in your Cache Authentication Booklet.  We will open the registration table to receive these booklets at 4:00 PM on Saturday afternoon.  If you are not in line to return your event packet by 5:00 PM, you will not be able to turn in your numbers.

• When you visit an event earth cache, you must answer the question that is asked on the event earth cache info page on the back of your booklet.  Once you have done this, you may count that cache as logged.  Since visiting earth caches are a great way to learn about your desert, if you complete all 7 event earth caches you will receive 5 extra raffle tickets.  Good luck!

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RAFFLE PRIZES! 

This is not a complete list but here are some of the sponsors and what they are bringing for the Raffle!  Some of the raffle prizes will be a surprise as even we haven’t seen what they are yet!  They are in no particular order!

  1. Gear One = Rhino Parts, Shirts, Hats
  2. Custom Snuggies = Snuggies!
  3. Delorme = TOPO software, Atlases and a Geocoin
  4. Luv2camp = 2 nites 3 days of a trailer delivered!
  5. SDORC = Shirts
  6. TDS= Surprise!
  7. Racewerks = Surprise!
  8. Gotomycamp = Whips and Flags
  9. Goodyear – 5!  Yes FIVE  37” Goodyear Wrangler Mud Terrains!
  10. Calmini – 42” Rockcrawler Bumper, TJ Gas Tank Skid Plate, Hi-flow Intake System
  11. Hanson Offroad – Part Of Calmini’s Donation!
  12. Airbedz = Truck Bed Airbed
  13. Jeeps R Us = 50 Hats!
  14. Borrego Water = Supplying all the water!
  15. Cabelas = 10 Utility Knives
  16. The Epicenter = Geocaching and Safety gear
  17. Sand Sports Magazine = Magazines, Shirts and More!
  18. “The Buggy Bunch” = Some great T-Shirts!
  19. Pittman Outdoors = Part Of Airbedz donation! 
  20. Travertine Grill = 10, $10 Gift certificates
  21. BURRTEC – Multiple items of camping gear!
  22. ABDNHA = Surprise!
  23. North County Crawlers =  Surprise!
  24. SwagHouse = Surprise
  25. 4Wheel Parts= Hi-lift jack, Tow Straps and some surprises!

I know I am missing some more so as soon as I figure out who it is I will post them as well!

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