Once again it's time for a "Meat"-and-greet in West "By God"
Virginia! The event will be Saturday, July 9, 2011 at Shelter #3 in
Coopers Rock State Forest. We'll be firing up the grills, eating,
playing games and swapping lies from noon 'till dark.
NOTE TO ALL: This year we have moved the date of our
Meat-N-Greet up a week to 7/9/11.
With Geowoodstock IX taking place only 4 hours north, the weekend
before, on 7/2/11, our MAGPI members hope that a few GW9 attendees
might feel the need to travel south to visit our fair state.
We gladly look forward to showing off one of our favorite state
parks to any and all of our caching friends.
Cache safe all!
Event times
11:00 - Show Up!!!
AWAY from the Pavilion (follow the signs)
12:00 – 3:30 Find the X - Get your flag & Go!
2:00 Ammo Can Toss - bring your own Ben-Gay!
2:30 GPSr Toss
AT the Pavilion
12:00 – How Fast, How Far?
12:00 – Frozen t-shirt competition!
12:00 – 3:30 What’s in the Ammo Can?
12:00 – 3:30 Mix & match
12:00 – 3:30 Kids’ Game
1:00 – 2:30 Let's Make A Deal!
1:00 Food is served
4:00 Prizes Announced
You must be present to claim door prizes
5:00 Wrap it up
We will supply more burgers and dogs than you can shake a stick
at, as well as the various accouterments. You should bring
yourselves and drinks for your family, as well as a pot luck side
or dessert to share! For the non-carnivores, feel free to bring
your own tofu and we'll throw it on the grill for you. Or you can
bring a big dish of veggie-whatever to share. We promise not laugh
(too much). We'll probably eat round one o'clock-ish but there
should be plenty of food for stragglers and the chronically
late
Check out the Coopers Rock State Forest website for more
details on the forest. The following is shamelessly plagiarized
from the official website:
Coopers Rock State Forest gets its name from a legend
about fugitive who hid from the law near what is now the overlook.
A cooper by trade, he resumed making barrels at his new mountain
hideout, selling them to people in nearby communities. He lived and
worked in the forest for many years.
During the Depression, between 1936 and 1942, the Civilian
Conservation Corps (CCC) built numerous structures in the forest,
often using durable American chestnut wood from trees that
succumbed to a blight that nearly wiped out the species. Eleven
these structures, including the rustic picnic shelters near
overlook, have been included on the National Register of Historic
Places.
Coopers Rock State Forest is 13 miles east of Morgantown and 8
miles west of Bruceton Mills. Its 12,713 acres are bisected by
Interstate 68. Although the forest serves as a recreation and
preservation area, it has a wider range of uses. West Virginia's
state forests also serve as areas of publicly owned land for
forestry research, timber management, and watershed and wildlife
protection.
Bands of rock cliffs line the Cheat River Gorge and provide
numerous overlooks. The centerpiece among these is the main
overlook, which furnishes a panorama of the gorge and distant
horizons. A maze of enormous boulders and cliffs fascinates hikers,
and the trails are especially lovely in June when the rhododendron
and mountain laurel are in bloom. Several trails wind through
forest valleys and over ridges, and a number of creeks beckon the
explorer. Glade Run is dammed to form a 6-acre pond that is
regularly stocked with trout. The observant hiker can hear and
sometimes see squirrels, chipmunks, hawks, owls, turkeys, turkey
vulture, songbirds, fox and deer throughout the forest.
There are more than 50 miles of trails throughout the state
forest, and a plentiful supply of geocaches. If you've already
found them all, there are dozens of worthwhile caches in the
Monongalia/Preston county area, many of which can be accessed
easily from I-68.
We'd appreciate it if you could RSVP with a "will attend" log
and let us know how many you'll be bringing so we can accurately
anticipate how much food we need to buy.
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